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Chapter 5

Auto Content Ingestion
Topics in this chapter
Overview
Removing Closed Captions
Overview
It is possible to FTP prerecorded content or copy prerecorded content to the ETV Portal
Server for easy ingestion to the NXG server. The ETV Portal Server periodically (every 5
minutes) polls certain folders for presence of content and if found ingests the content onto
multiple NXG servers. This process is called Automatic Content Ingestion or Auto-ingestion. The
content can come from 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 NXG server provided that it is configured using the
ETV Portal Server Administrator interface. If it is desired to place content on a subfolder in
the NXG server, that same folder would have to be created and configured using the ETV
Portal Server Administrator Interface as described below.
Go to Global Settings > Servers > Add-Modify On-Demand Folders. Here an existing or
new folder can be associated with select NXG Servers for auto-ingestion. The folders are
listed on the left with the path relative to auto-ingest root. The NXG servers are listed on the
right inside the Add-Modify Folders on Selected Servers box. Select the desired folder and
then select the target NXG servers to ingest content. Press Submit. The folder is now created
under the auto-ingest root folder and configured.
Note The default FTP path may be on a different drive, refer to the IIS default FTP
configuration to confirm.