User guide

Getting started

Last updated 8/28/2014

To package an on-demand file for HTTP Dynamic Streaming, use the File Packager tool.

1 Do the following to copy an FLV or F4V/MPEG-4 file from your local computer to the /webroot/vod directory on

the Adobe Media Server instance:

• Open an SSH client and issue the following command to copy a file to the instance:

scp -i keypair.pem filename.xxx amsadmin@public-dns:/mnt/webroot/vod

For example, the following command copies the file sample.f4v to an instance:

scp -i amsdocs.pem sample.f4v amsadmin@ec2-184-72-148-15.compute-

1.amazonaws.com:/mnt/webroot/vod

Note: Use the Key Pair file you downloaded when you created the instance.

2 Connect to the instance:

ssh -i keypair.pem amsadmin@public-dns

3 Change directories to the File Packager directory:

cd /opt/adobe/ams/tools/f4fpackager

4 Run the following command:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.

Note: If you aren’t in the f4fpackager directory, specify the full path to the f4fpackager.

5 Run the following command to package the sample.f4v file and copy the output files to the vod application’s media

directory:

./f4fpackager --input-file=/mnt/webroot/vod/sample.f4v --output-path=/mnt/webroot/vod

For more information, see Package content on Linux.

6 Go to the Flash Media Player Setup page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/smp.adobe/files/ and do the following:

a For Video Source, enter:

http://public-dns/vod/filename.f4m

For example, if the video you packaged was sample.f4v, the Video Source is:

http://ec2-184-72-148-15.compute-1.amazonaws.com/vod/sample.f4m

b Are you using HTTP Streaming or Flash Access 2.0? Select Yes.

c Click Preview to update the Embed Code.

d Click the Play button to play the video from your Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services instance.

7 When you terminate the instance, the data is deleted. To keep the recorded stream, copy it to a storage volume (S3

or EBS). For information about transferring files, see

Managing content.

Multicast streaming

Note: Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services supports peer-assisted multicast streaming. It does not support IP

multicast or fusion multicast.

Copy the multicast tools to the webroot folder