Specifications

Archive Service
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Vision
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Operation/Reference Guide
Archive Service
The Vision
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Archive service provides a multi-format, multi-bitrate storage system for video or audio files.
Video in the archive can be accessed on demand by PC users, from tablets, or set-top boxes. Users can attach
metadata to each video containing information about the video contents, this metadata can be customized by
the system administrator. Vision
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provides some built in metadata sections such as synopsis to provide an
overview of the video and credits to detail the authors of the video. The Vision
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search feature can be used to
search videos by the contents of the metadata. You can add one or more archive licenses to a server to provide
more than one storage area on that server. Vision
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also allows an archive to point to a NAS/SAN to add extra
storage to your Vision
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system. Archive video/music files can be used as the source for a Producer service,
which provides a scheduled multicast TV channel. The Archive service supports MP3 audio and four types of
video file: WMV, MPEG2, MPEG4, and Flash Video (FLV). You can also record a Live Channel and save the
resulting video into an Archive.
Setting Up an Archive
In order to setup an Archive you need to first decide whether you want to store your videos on a Vision
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server,
a SAN, or a NAS. The latter option is called a NAS archive.
If the former then you need to look at the amount of free space on each available server. Once you
have found the appropriate server then you must use the Manage Licensing screen to add an
Archive license to the server. See Configuring a Standard (non-NAS) archive below for more
details.
If the latter see Setting Up a NAS Archive section on page 67 for more details.
If you need to store videos on a SAN the process is similar to configuring a NAS archive, see
Configuring a SAN Archive section on page 72 for more details
Configuring a Standard Vision
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Server (non NAS) Archive
Configure a Standard Vision
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Server (non NAS) Archive on one of your Vision
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servers as follows:
1. Go to Manage System > Manage Licensing
2. Drag an Archive license on to the server you want to host that Archive, note that Record and Producer
services can only use archives which are located on the same server. This restriction does not apply to
NAS archives so you can add a NAS archive license to any server.