VBrick Systems ETV v4.2.1 Add/Modify Video On Demand Content Folders, Creating a VOD-D FTP Server

VOD/FTP Servers

4.Verify that the directory specified in Step 2 above is set to allow the FTP user account full permissions.

On the Portal Server:

5.When the Microsoft Windows Media Server is created or modified, specify the user name and password created in Step 3 above in the FTP User Name and FTP Password fields on the Add/Modify VOD/FTP Servers page

Creating a VOD-D FTP Server

If you are using a VOD-D (Darwin) server, you must install and configure a standard FTP server on the VOD-D server as explained below. (For more about Darwin servers see ETV VOD Servers on page 6.)

TTo create a Darwin FTP server: On the Darwin Server:

1.Install a standard FTP server on port 21.

2.Set the default FTP directory to the Darwin Server's Media Folder directory (also called the Publishing Point) or create a virtual directory of the FTP root pointing to the Darwin server's Media Folder.

3.Create and configure an FTP user account with full permissions (read/write, rename/ delete etc.) on the directory created above. If using the VBrick default, this account's user name is vbrickuser and the password is vbrickuser. Hint: use the settings of the anonymous account as an example.

4.Verify that the directory created in Step 2 above is set to allow the FTP user account full permissions.

On the Portal Server:

5.When the Darwin Server is created or modified, specify the user name and password

created in Step 3 above in the FTP User Name and FTP Password fields on the Add/Modify page.

Add/Modify Video On Demand Content Folders

Add/Modify Video On Demand Content Folders can be used to organize content on a specific

Video-on-Demand server. The Portal Server periodically polls certain folders for presence of content and if found ingests the content onto multiple VOD servers. Any files FTPed into a particular folder in the Autoingest folder will automatically be ingested into the corresponding folder on the VOD server(s). You must add these folders using the window shown below. (See Auto Content Ingestion on page 121 for more about autoingestion.) Existing folder structures on a VOD server will be mirrored in the Portal Server. However you will still need to associate those folders with other server(s) if the file is to be autoingested onto multiple servers.

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