Red5 and AS3 - file "Mystream" is deleted (not recording) - actionscript-3

Question

This my first time using StackExchange so I apologize if I miss anything.
I am trying to create a AS3 Flash that will record a video using a webcam and RED5 media server; I am stuck (I am not a programmer, more of a computer handyman that does everything).
The example that comes with RED5 works fine (though is in AS2 and I could not, for some reason, make certain things I need to do work), but my code doesnt seem to record the stream as there is not file, the RED5 console only says:
[INFO] [NioProcessor-3] org.red5.server.adapter.ApplicationAdapter - File lecture.flv was deleted
here is the code so far. (updated 09/07/12)
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.net.NetStream;
import flash.media.Camera;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.media.Microphone;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.media.Video;
var _cam:Camera
var _mic:Microphone
// create basic netConnection object
var _nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
_nc.client = this
// connect to the local Red5 server
_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/myapp");
_nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
//Add listeners for buttons
record_btn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, recordvid );
stop_btn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, stopvideo );
//submit_btn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, onSubmit );
//Listeners
function netStatusHandler(event:NetStatusEvent):void{
trace("start netstatus handler");
if (event.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success"){
attachCamera();
}
}
function attachCamera(e:Event = null):void {
trace("attach");
//Attach Camera to field
_cam=Camera.getCamera();
_mic=Microphone.getMicrophone()
vid.attachCamera(_cam);
}
function stopvideo(e:MouseEvent):void {
//_ns.close();
}
function recordvid(e:MouseEvent):void {
var _ns:NetStream = new NetStream(_nc);
trace("publish");
_ns.attachCamera(_cam);
_ns.attachAudio(_mic);
_ns.publish("lecture", "record");
}

Answer 1

You have to connect & wait for the successful status before publishing the stream.
For Example :
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://fms.example.com/lectureseries");
nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
function netStatusHandler(event:NetStatusEvent):void{
if (event.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success"){
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.publish("lecture", "record");
}
}
Have a look at the Netstream documentation to learn more.

Answer 2

I just found the answer thru extreme googleing, I needed to declare the Netstream variable outside the function; otherwise the "publish" video was "empty" as the garbage collector was destroying my variable at some point.
so outside a function I declare
var _ns:NetStream;
and inside the function I declare:
function recordvid(e:MouseEvent):void {
_ns = new NetStream(_nc);
_ns.attachCamera(_cam);
_ns.attachAudio(_mic);
_ns.publish("lecture", "record");
Awesomely enough, I found the answer right here in stackoverflow