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2.4Content Loading

The preferred method of storing content on a Sun MediaCenter server is to use the Web-based CmTool. CmTool uses the Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon and the Content Manager (CM), part of the Sun MediaCenter software, to store content. The CM automatically extracts from MPEG content the information the server needs to successfully store and play that content. See Chapter 4 for information on using the CmTool interface.

The Sun MediaCenter software also offers the following alternatives for transferring video ﬁles:

smc_tar

Can copy to or extract from a tape device. Takes a content package as input for content loading. Copies between a tar device or a Unix File System (UFS) and the MFS.

smc_copy

Takes a title name as input. Use from server to server. Can create a TOC ﬁle and index ﬁles if none present. Copies between MFSs.

ftp in conjunction with the Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon

Requires only the smc: keyword. Works on any platform on which an ftp client can run. Creates a TOC ﬁle and index ﬁles if none present. Copies between a local ﬁle system and the MFS.

smc_tar and smc_copy are described in Chapter 5. See Chapter 6 for instructions on the use of ftp with the Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon.

A ﬁle-transfer alternative beyond those listed here is to write a program to the Content Manager (CM) API or CM Client API. These APIs are described in the Sun MediaCenter Server Programmer’s Guide.

The Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon works with the most commonly-used MPEG formats—MPEG-1 System Stream (MPEG1SYS) and MPEG-2 Transport Stream (MPEGTS).

The following are circumstances in which you cannot use ftp to store content:

■Your MPEG ﬁle is larger than 2.1 GB. Use smc_tar instead. With such large ﬁles, you must create the correct segment clauses in the TOC ﬁle. See the description of the TOC ﬁle in Appendix B. The 2.1 GB ﬁle size is a limitation of Solaris 2.4, not the Sun MediaCenter server.

■Your content is in a format other than MPEG1SYS or MPEGTS. If your stream is not encoded in one of these formats, you must use smc_tar to load content.

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Release Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s GuideA Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA 415 960-1300 fax 4151997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved 1. Introduction Contents2. Preparing and Loading Content 3. Monitoring the Server 4. Moving Contentiv Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 6. Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 5. Sun MediaCenter Server Utilitiesvi Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 8.2.1 mfs df 8.2.2 mfs diskusg 8.2.3 mfs repair 8.2.4 mkmfs10. Troubleshooting 9. Access Control ListsA. Setting up the SNMP Agent B. Creating a Content Package B-1Glossary Glossary-1 Index Index-1 viii Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide DecemberWho Should Use This Book Prefacex Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December The Sun MediaCenter Documentation SuiteHow This Book Is Organized TABLE P-1 Typographic Conventions What Typographic Changes Meanxii Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Shell Prompts in Command ExamplesTABLE P-2 Shell Prompts Shell1.1 Introduction Introduction1.2 Sun MediaCenter Hardware Sun MediaCenter Server Control Content From tape, network-accessible ﬁle, or live sourceFast Ethernet or ATM Fast/Wide or Ultra SCSI Media File System FilesFIGURE 1-2 Sun MediaCenter Software Architecture 1.3 Sun MediaCenter SoftwareRecovery from single-disk failures Guaranteed stream delivery rate1.3.1 Media File System MFS Independent streamsRandom access High-resolution rate controlHot swappability Efﬁcient use of disk bandwidthMedia File System Layout Manager Scheduler Bit Pump Buffers 1.3.2 Media Stream ManagerDisk Driver Output Driver1.4 Video Output Interfaces 1.3.3 Content Manager1.3.4 Web-based Tools MediaCenter Server Programmer’s GuideFIGURE 1-4 Sun MediaCenter Servers in ATM Environment 1.4.1 ATM1.4.2 LAN FIGURE 1-5 Sun MediaCenter Servers in LAN environment 1.5 Content Preparation and Loading1.7 Push Model 1.6 Server Management1-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 1.8 Design Beneﬁts2.1 General MPEG Encoding Requirements Preparing and Loading Content2.2 MPEG Encoding Requirements for Trick Play 2.3.1 Packet Boundary 2.3 Splice Points2.3.5 randomaccessindicator 2.3.3 payloadunitstartindicator2.3.2 closedgop 2.3.4 adaptationﬁeldcontrol2.4 Content Loading To copy to or extract from a tape device, use smctar 2.5 References 2-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 3.1 Overview Monitoring the Server3.2.1 Invoking the Tool 3.2 Using the WebAdmin ToolChapter 3 Monitoring the Server FIGURE 3-1 Sun MediaCenter PageFIGURE 3-2 Resource Utilization Page 3-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide DecemberOnce the applet loads, the Resource Utilization page is displayed 3.2.2 Common Page Elements 3.3 Resource UtilizationTroubleshooting 3.4 Streaming VideosVideos being copied Disk CapacityFIGURE 3-3 Streaming Videos Page the title being viewed 3-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide Decemberspeed Fast-Forward, Slow Motion, Stopped, Playing, Reverse FIGURE 3-4 Streaming Videos Page with Stream Detail3.5 Copy Sessions title of the content being transferred Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server The Session Information page is shown belowFIGURE 3-6 Session Information Page 3.6 Disk Capacity FIGURE 3-7 Disk Capacity Page The Disk Info page is shown below The bottom portion of the page shows any late events or disk errors 3.7 TroubleshootingThe Troubleshooting page is shown below Chapter 3 Monitoring the ServerThe Troubleshooting page contains the following links This page shows the status of disks in the MFS 3.7.1 Disk HealthThe Disk Health page is shown below Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server3.7.2 Console Log Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server FIGURE 3-11 Console Log PageThe Bitpump page is shown below 3.7.3 Scheduler and Bitpump3-20 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December TABLE 3-1 Scheduler and Bitpump Statistics TABLE 3-1 describes the ﬁelds in this pageTABLE 3-1 Scheduler and Bitpump Statistics Continued bitPumpStreams bitPumpCurrent number of bit pump streams bitPumpBandwidth3-24 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 4.1 Overview Moving Content4.2.1 Invoking the Tool 4.2 Using CmToolFIGURE 4-1 Sun MediaCenter Page Chapter 4 Moving Content4-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December FIGURE 4-2 Table of Contents Page4.2.2 Common Page Elements 4.3 Loading Content4-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Upon successful login, the Load Content page is displayedFIGURE 4-3 Server Login Page FIGURE 4-4 Load Content Page 4-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December FIGURE 4-5 Content on Remote SystemFIGURE 4-6 Specifying a Local Title Chapter 4 Moving ContentFIGURE 4-7 Copy Conﬁrmation 4-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide DecemberFIGURE 4-8 Session Information 4-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 4.4 Table of Contents PageFIGURE 4-9 Table of Contents Page FIGURE 4-10 Display Attributes Dialog Box 4.4.1 View MenuFIGURE 4-12 Filter Dialog Box 4-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide DecemberFIGURE 4-11 Sort Dialog Box FIGURE 4-13 Title Information Page 4.4.2 Selected Menu4-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5.1 Setting a Title Access Control ListTo extend access for a title that you own, use the smcsettacl command where username is a Solaris login name hostnametitle 5.2 The smccopy Utilitytitle hostnameﬁlename ﬁlenamer rate s speedThe following are examples of smccopy use t typeThe following command copies a ﬁle between two local ﬁlesystems b blknum 5.3 The smctar Utility5.3.1 Syntax and Options 5.3.2 Content Loading FIGURE 5-1 Loading Content with smctar 5.3.3 Copying ContentTitle Sun MediaCenter MFStar Device or File Optional Sun MediaCenter Title MFS5.3.5 Examples 5.3.4 Remote Copying and Extractionremotehost# tar cf - your title.TOC your content.mpg smctar xf \ server# tar cf - your title.TOC your content.mpg smctar xfserver# smctar xf /dev/rmt/0 smcserverbambi remotehost# smctar cf /dev/rmt/0 smcserverbambiAn alternative to the preceding commands is #!/bin/sh # smcbackup Script to archive multiple SMC titles to tape 5-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 5.4 The smcls Utility Display the format of this title Display the time the title was last modiﬁed smcls my-server”a-z*” 5-20 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide Decemberclient% smcls -lt server% smcrm SUNWbambi SGIquovadis 5.5 The smcrm Utilitysmcls -lrtB 5-22 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon FIGURE 6-1 Sun MediaCenter FTP Functions 6-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide DecemberStandard Daemon6.1 Keyword for Video-File Functions 6.2 Video-File Attributes delete dir get ls mget mls mput put rename 6.3 Video-File Commandsftp dir smctitle=Bat\ 6-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide Decemberftp dir smctitle=\ list continues to conclusion 6.3.1 Listing Fileslist continues to conclusion 6-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 6.3.2 Moving Files Directions of put/ get Commands 6.3.2.1 Moving Single TitlesPage 6.3.2.2 Moving Multiple Titles 6.3.3 Renaming Files 6.3.4 Deleting Files 6.4 Loading Content with ftpencodingmachine% ftp smcserverone Connected to smcserverone 331 Password required for clinton. Password230 User clinton logged in. ftp lcd /home/encode ftp bin 200 Type set to6-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 7.1 Introduction Server Output Data Format7.2 ATM Encapsulation Content7.2.1 MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet Encapsulation Sun MediaCenter Server7.2.3 MPEG-1 System Stream Packet Encapsulation 7.2.2 MPEG-2 Program Stream Packet Encapsulation7.2.4 Thomson Electronics Packet Encapsulation 7.2.5 MPEG-2 Encapsulation over Classical IP over AAL57.3.2 MPEG-2 over Classical IP over AAL5 7.3 ATM Addressing7.3.1 MPEG over AAL5 host=IP hostname,udpport=UDPport num 7.4 Fast Ethernet EncapsulationFIGURE 7-2 LAN/Enterprise Scenario 7.4.1 MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet Encapsulation7.4.2 MPEG-2 Program Stream Packet Encapsulation 7.5 Fast Ethernet Addressing7.4.3 MPEG-1 System Stream Packet Encapsulation 7.4.4 Thomson Electronics EncapsulationTABLE 7-1 Value of encap Field in MsmConnect 7.6 Specifying Encapsulation7.8 References 7.7 Differences Among Different Types of Links7-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 8.1 Monitoring MFS Disks Administering MFS Disks8.2.1 mfs df 8.2 MFS Utilitiesmfs df usage is as follows 8.2.2 mfs diskusg 8.2.3 mfs repair mfs repair usage is as follows d deviceTo ﬁnd out which MFS disk has failed, you enter 8.2.4 mkmfs Drive name /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 Drive name /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s2 8-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 8.3 Replacing a Failed Diskserver# mfs repair -rp -d /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s2 server# mfs repair -r -d /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s2server# mfs repair -p -d /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s2 Note -Two overlapping disk failures result in a system panic 9.1 ACL Files Access Control Lists9.3 Server ACL 9.2 Permissionsuserpermission nobodypermission9.4 Player ACL 9.6 Session ACL 9.5 Title ACLA session ACL has a single type of permission 9-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Server watchdog resets on start of video stream playback Troubleshooting10.1 Symptoms and Possible Solutions/ Workarounds 10-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Underperforming stream outputNo video displays on client Corrupt disk labels Poor video qualityKernel panic with SAHI queue threshold messages Disk failureUnable to create title on the MFS 10.2 Error Messages10.2.1 Server Console Messages WARNING stream id 107 ba@426,3,80@ xmit error Q size 10.2.2 MFS Error MessagesNOTICE ba0 qsize OK NOTICE ba3 qsize 9 above hiwat10-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Setting up the SNMP Agent TABLE A-1 Sun MediaCenter Server MIB Deﬁnitions A.1 The Sun MediaCenter Server MIBdiskError Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-3diskErrorTable bitPumpdiskTable A-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide Decemberfailure onlinesysZonesPerDisk Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-5sysTimePeriodLength sysNumberOfBuffers1. Become root A.2 Enabling Management by Solstice Domain ManagerThis command creates smsvod.mib.schema and smsvod.mib.oid 5. Run $SNMHOME/bin/mib2schema smsvod.mib4. Copy smsvod.mib to $SNMHOME/agents Under “instance elementCommand”6. Run buildoid with no arguments A.3 Enabling Trap Handling The Sun MediaCenter software ensures delivery of media streams at the same rate at which they were recorded. The bit pump’s missing of a deadline indicates that the machine was, at least momentarily, unable to keep up with the rate of a title. This indicates a resource conﬂict on the server Creating a Content Package B.1 Content Package B.2 The TOC File A TOC ﬁle is described with the following structures B.2.1.1 title B.2.1 ContentObjectsB.2.1.2 version B.2.1.3 formatB.2.1.4 description B.2.2 BitStreamObjectsB.2.2.1 description B.2.2.2 speedB.2.2.3 bitrate B.2.3 DataFileObjectsB.2.2.4 indexﬁle B.2.2.5 indexsizeB.2.3.3 ﬁlesize B.3 Simplest Case TOC FileB.2.3.2 ﬁlepath title B.4 TOC File for Large Filesversion formatB.5 Index File Requirements B.5.1 Normal Play Time B.6.1 Tar Format B.6 Tape Storage FormatB.5.2 File Offset FIGURE B-2 Tape Storage Format Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-13B.6.2 Tapes B.7 ExampleAppendix B Creating a Content Package B-15 CODE EXAMPLE B-1 Example Content PackageB-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December For a ﬁle bambi.1x index ﬁle for normal-speed play B.8 References Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-19 B-20 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Glossary-1 GlossaryMedia Stream Manager Glossary-3 Table of ContentsGlossary-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December Index Page Page Page Page Index-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December