I am not sure if this is the right place to post this or not - I have seen some Flash questions answered here before, so I'll try here first :D

I am curious to know if anyone can point me to someone (or some company) that I could contact about building a custom live Flash media encoder for our website. We have a database for authentication and a list of upcoming events with stream information (FMS URL and Stream Name) that we want to automate into an encoder. Currently we have our customers use Flash Media Live Encoder and copy/paste the values into the encoder, but would prefer a solution that is more tightly integrated with our site. Is this possible? Where should I be looking for help in this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You can use service like http://www.encoding.com/ for encoding video. You have to use their API to do the video convertion. Softlayer provide similar service to customers free of cost.

That looks like it does on-demand encoding (for files already created), but I am trying to find something that we can use for live streaming of events. I'll keep looking!

I am not sure if I understood what is the requirement. Would you like to put a password protection on live flash streaming with authentication coming out of your database?

He's looking for something similar to uStream. It takes a live stream and uses Flash Media (or their own homebrew, users choice) encoder and streams the feed realtime. The only difference is that all of the "shows" are in a Protected area that the show hosts clients can get access to.

There was one out there, and I can't remember the name of it offhand.. gimme a day or 2 and I'll get it. It's highly customizable and user friendly

EDIT: Found It: Wowza Media http://www.wowzamedia.com/

He's looking for something similar to uStream. It takes a live stream and uses Flash Media (or their own homebrew, users choice) encoder and streams the feed realtime. The only difference is that all of the "shows" are in a Protected area that the show hosts clients can get access to.

There was one out there, and I can't remember the name of it offhand.. gimme a day or 2 and I'll get it. It's highly customizable and user friendly

EDIT: Found It: Wowza Media http://www.wowzamedia.com/

To OP -

Does this post answer to your question?

I think Wowza Media is the server, we already have that - we have Flash Media Interactive Server instead.

What I am looking for is a custom client encoder. In order to stream a live stream you need the client to use an encoder (like Flash Media Live Encoder) which details the input source(s) and the output (FMS URL and Stream Name). What we would like is a custom client encoder which interacts with our database, the user would authenticatethrough the client encoder, it would pull up a list of available live streams (scheduling of a stream is done via our web site, includes description/date/time/etc). Once the client selects one of the available live streams, the FMS URL and Stream Name would be populated automatically and the client could start streaming live. Currently we have the FMS URL and Stream Name on our website and the client has to copy/paste into Flash Media Live Encoder - which is not the most customer friendly.

I have seen custom encoders - like Kulabyte (http://www.kulabyte.com/) - but I am having trouble finding a person/company that will build something for us.