Here comes a little gotcha that could potentially have you pulling your hair out for a fair few hours, and some more once you realise how simple the 'fix' is.
If you are streaming files from FMS (be it version 2 or 3) then you may have made use of its Virtual Directory feature. This allows you to use a key (basically a named mapping) to point FMS at different storage locations for video files.

For example you could configure a key name of 'myvideos' and map this to a location of C:\myfiles\videostorage. The tag in vhost.xml would look like this:

Then every time a stream is requested via NetStream.play the server will look for the myvideos key in the stream path and if found locate the appropriate video file inside /videostorage (or if required in a subfolder).

My friend Darren has once again outdone himself and I'm very happy to be able to offer this Flex Whiteboard Component for sale on Flashcomguru.com as of today.
It is a complete rewrite of our popular Flash Whiteboard component which has been integrated into projects such as DimDim and Aspiringkidz. We hope that the Flex component will have a similar success. I truly believe that this is the best Flex based whiteboard component for FMS available today and it has a massive feature set including many public APIs and an architecture that allows you to specify any Canvas component in Flex as the whiteboard surface. Images are supported and we have even added Flickr integration.

I've set up a dedicated page with more information right here. Please note that automated purchasing is not available right now and you need to email me if you are interested. The contact link is at the top of the page.

Once again Flashcomguru has teamed up with the guys from AFComponents for a giveaway of their newly released FLV Gallery Component.

The component supports XML and RSS 2.0 feeds and is fully customizable through component properties.

AFComponents are looking for developers who'd like to test this new component and provide feedback and/or suggestions in return for a freebie.

I have 20 FLV Gallery Components to give away (a value of $15 each) to the first 20 people to leave a comment with this post. Don't forget to leave your email address (it will only be visible to me) and remember to provide some feedback once you've tested it.

UPDATE: THANKS, we have enough testers now, you'll be contacted by email.

Adobe has just released version 1.0.1 of the FLVPlayback component for Flash Professional 8.

You can download it at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html#flash8

This update addresses a few issues around SMIL parsing, some streaming issues when using FMS, and some minor UI issues with custom components.

Full bug fixes can be found in the Release Notes:
Release Note 1
Release Note 2
Release Note 3

Flashcomguru has teamed up with the guys from AFComponents for a giveaway of their newly released FLV PLAYER V 2.0.

AFComponents are looking for developers who'd like to test this new component and provide feedback and/or suggestions in return for a freebie.

We have 20 FLV PLAYER V 2.0 components to give away (a value of $10 each) to the first 20 people to leave a comment with this post. Don't forget to leave your email address (it will only be visible to me) and remember to provide some feedback once you've tested it.

You can get more info about AFComponents on their website.

Note: I will email everyone once 20 comments have been received. Thanks.

UPDATE: Thanks, we have our 20 volunteers now.