VBrick Systems EtherneTV v4.2.1 Portal Server, Admin Manual

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Chapter 8
Auto Content Ingestion
Topics in this chapter
AutoIngest Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
AutoIngest Content via XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Removing MPEG-4 Closed Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
As explained in this chapter, there are two ways to autoingest content depending on your
requirements. One method is to FTP or copy your video content to predefined folders on the
Portal Server. The folders are monitored and the content is automatically ingested
(autoingested) at periodic intervals. The second method is to use .xml files for content stored
at remote locations or on mass storage devices. This method also supports metadata for
search, copyright protection, maximum viewers, etc.
AutoIngest Content
You can FTP or copy prerecorded content to the ETV Portal Server for easy ingestion to the
VOD server(s). The ETV Portal Server periodically (every 5 minutes) polls certain folders for
presence of content and if found ingests the content onto multiple VOD servers. This
process is called
Automatic Content Ingestion or Autoingestion . The content can come from a
pushbutton recording on the Portal Server, a VBrick VBStar, or a file recorded with
StreamPlayer Plus.
The content should be placed in a pre-defined sub-folder (
mcs\autoingest
) under the FTP
root folder. This pre-defined folder is called the autoingest root folder. For example, if the FTP
root is at
c:\inetpub\ftproot
, the content could be placed anywhere under
c:\inetpub\ftproot\MCS\AutoIngest
. In this example the
autoingest
root is
c:\inetpub\ftproot\MCS\AutoIngest
.
Note You cannot autoingest VBPresenter or other third-party presentations into the Portal
Server. You must use the native FTP facilities in each application.