Construction of on-line video conference system based on Flex and FMS

The effectiveness in communication and the great economization in time and cost make the video conference system become an important application today. If the video conference system can be constructed on Internet, its practicability and application value will be improved greatly. However, with traditional web page techniques, it is difficult to construct a video conference system that has many complex functions. In this paper, we study the method of developing on-line video conference system with the RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology, and build a prototype system by using Adobe Flex and FMS (Flash Media Server) as platform, which are two important tools in RIA. In the system, multi-users can login the conference page and communicate with each other by video and voice in real-time. The system also provides text chat function and certain administrator function. Experiment results show that our system is feasible and effective. The technique provided in this paper is also a good reference to develop other on-line video communication applications and other rich Internet applications.