VBrick Systems Portal Server ETV v4.1 - Manual (Page 121)

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Chapter 8
Auto Content Ingestion
Topics in this chapter
AutoIngest Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
AutoIngest Content via XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Removing MPEG-4 Closed Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
AutoIngest Content
You can FTP prerecorded content 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 Auto-ingestion. 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 auto-ingest 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 auto-ingest root is
c:\inetpub\ftproot\MCS\AutoIngest
.
Content that is placed under the auto-ingest root folder on the ETV Portal Server will be
ingested into the root video folder on the VOD server provided that it is configured using
the ETV Portal Server Administrator interface. If you want to place content on a subfolder in
the VOD server, that same folder would have to be created and configured using the ETV
Portal Server Admin interface as described below.
Note You cannot autoingest VBPresenter or other third-party presentations into the Portal
Server. You must use the native FTP facilities in each application.
Note The default FTP path may be on a different drive, refer to the IIS default FTP
configuration to confirm.