flashphorm

Akamai gave me a hard time making a live stream from their servers work in my flash video player. Originally I've been testing my streams in their stream testing app @ mediapm.edgesuite.net. Saw a &hdcore=3.3.0 parameter and some random string getting attached to the manifest.f4m request URL and after adding these parameters manually to mine the stream played fine in both Firefox and Chrome. That was never properly tested in Safari though and about a month later someone complained they couldn't see the stream. For Safari, the akamai streaming server would block requests to the segment files with a 403 - Forbidden. Talking to a dude at Akamai they provided me with libraries and a documentation file to integrate their AkamaiAdvancedStreamingPlugin in my project. The docs were outdated and incomplete, the samples provided wouldn't compile because the maven repository server at mvn.akamai.com could at the time of writing this not be resolved. Following the docs you...