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Chapter 5 Configuring Services
Configuring Programs
Step 14 Click Submit to save the settings.
Click Add Playtime to add additional playtimes to an existing schedule. The Playtime Editor is
displayed in the page.
Priming a Live Delivery Service
The first client requesting a program often experiences the longest wait time for the program to begin
playing. Users can experience long wait times because of the full RTSP negotiation that is required to
pull the live stream from the source. Delays can also occur if the edge SE has not buffered enough stream
data to fill the media player’s buffer at the time the program is requested. For Windows Media streaming,
when the buffer is not filled, some data to the client might be sent at the suboptimal line rate instead of
at the Fast Start rate.
Delivery services for unicast-managed live programs can be primed for faster start-up times. When a live
delivery service is primed, a unicast-out stream is pulled from the origin server to an SE before a client
ever requests the stream. When the first request for the stream goes out, the stream is already in the
delivery service.
Note It is not possible to monitor non-primed streams because they are played directly from the Content
Origin server. Primed streams can be monitored because they are buffered on the SE.
Configuring a Rebroadcast
Once you have defined the program type, you need to select media files, configure the streaming, and
create a schedule. This procedure takes you through these steps and assumes you have already defined
the program (see the “Defining a Program” section on page 5-27).
Note For rebroadcast programs, media can only be selected from one delivery service. The SEs and device
groups assigned to the delivery service are selected automatically when you choose the media files for
the program.
To configure a Movie Streamer rebroadcast or Windows Media rebroadcast program, do the following:
Step 1 After you have chosen a program from the Program Table page, click Select Media. The Select Media
page is displayed.
Step 2 Choose a delivery service from the list by clicking the radio button next to the name of the delivery
service and click Show Media in Selected Delivery Service. The Media File Selection pane is
displayed.
Step 3 In the Criteria field, enter the search criteria for the media files you want to add to the program and click
Use Criteria. All the media files that match the search criteria are displayed.
Use an asterisk (*) to match any number of characters, or a question mark (?) to match exactly one
character. For example, use “*.mpg” for all files with the suffix “mpg,” and “file?.mpg” to match
file1.mpg, file2.mpg, and so on.
To start a new search, click Select Media.