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Overview of MOS Gateway
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An ActiveX control provides a live view of the media inventory on the
MOS device. The news staff can use an ActiveX control (also known as a
plugin) or replicated metadata to browse a MOS device’s inventory and
insert the appropriate information into a machine control event in the
script. See F i g u r e 1 for a visual diagram of the two paths by which a MOS
device’s media inventory may be viewed at an iNEWS Workstation.
For instance, users can copy a MOS item’s production cue marker—shown
at left—from a MOS device’s replication queue and paste it directly into
the body of an iNEWS story. For MOS items that appear in the story form,
an entire story may be duplicated from the device-specific queue into an
iNEWS rundown and then its title and body edited accordingly, such as
changing the existing title to the story’s name (slug) and replacing any text
with the story’s script.
After the news staff has entered the machine control events in the scripts,
the producer can download rundowns to the MOS device using the monitor
server in iNEWS and MOS Gateway. The downloaded rundown can be
controlled using the MOS device’s interface.
Figure 1 MOS Control Workflow Diagram
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Monitor server is a utility program that checks a show’s event requests for
errors, creates composite and event lists, and sends playlists to MOS
Gateway. For more information on creating monitor servers, see
“Creating
a Monitor Server for Each Show” on page 37 .
Windows XP /
2000
SCO UNIX / SGI IRIX / Linux
Replication
Windows XP /
2000 / NT
iNEWS
Server
MOS
Gateway
Vendor OS
Vendor
MOS
Device
vendor-specific communication
MOS Protocol
iNEWS
Client hosts
Vendor
ActiveX
Control
Monitor
Server