VBrick Systems V4.4.3 Allow Access to Specific VOD Servers, Allow Access to Specific VOD Content

Users and User Groups

Allow Access to Specific VOD Servers

Choose from a list of available VOD server(s) to which a user has access. A user can have access to multiple servers. This feature is particularly useful when VOD servers are located in different physical locations that are separated by low bandwidth links. For example, if a company has offices and VOD servers in both New York and Chicago, and these offices are separated by a T-1 link, then they would want to limit the users in the Chicago office to the Chicago VOD server and those in New York to the New York VOD server.

Note When a user is provided access to particular VOD server(s), and they are given the privilege to Publish or Record to a particular folder, when they Publish or Record, the video will be Published or Recorded to each server that they have access to. This is important for clustering purposes.

Allow Access to Specific VOD Content

Choose from a list of folders to which a user can have access. A user can have access to multiple folders on multiple servers. If the user has access to multiple VOD servers, and the folder names are the same on both servers, only one folder name will show up in the list.

Allow Viewing by Content Type

The Administrator can limit the types of content that a user can view and/or limit the bandwidth that specific users can view. Note that this setting does not apply to URLs that were manually added by an administrator (see URLs on page 63).

Do Not Allow	This will limit users that are on a non-multicast capable part of
Multicast viewing	the network from trying to view multicast video.
Restrict Multicast to	This will limit users to only viewing multicast streams that are a
Kbps	certain size or smaller. This works well to maintain bandwidth
	utilization over a particular WAN port.
Do Not Allow RTSP	This will limit users from viewing RTSP Unicast Streams from
viewing	MPEG-4 Encoders and from accessing RTSP unicast streams
	from a Video-on-Demand server (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or
	MPEG-4). This works well to maintain bandwidth utilization over
	a particular LAN or WAN port.
Restrict RSTP viewing	This will limit users to only viewing RTSP streams that are a
to Kbps	certain size or smaller. This works well to maintain bandwidth
	utilization over a particular LAN or WAN port.

Allow Content Publishing

Administrators can allow a user the ability to publish content to folder(s) on an VOD Video- On-Demand Server. This function allows the user access to the Add Video page, where users can add pre-recorded video content to a VOD. It also allows users to (1) create (and upload) Thumbnails for video files in the folders to which they can publish, to (2) delete video content from the VOD server, and (3) to add keyword and description data using the Modify Info button. To prevent users from deleting content, be sure this option is disabled.

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