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VBrick
EtherneTV Portal Server
EtherneTV v4.2.1 Portal Server
Admin Guide
May 9, 2008
4410-0118-0008
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Copyright © 2008 VBrick Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Beaumont Road Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, USA www.VBrick.com This publication contains confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information. No part of this document may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any machine-readable or electronic format without prior written permission from VBrick. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and VBrick Systems assumes no responsibilit
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Contents Portal Server v4.2.1 Admin Guide Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Font Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Control Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Adding Control Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adding User-Defined VBIRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Connecting Control Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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4. Users and User Groups Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Configuring Users and User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 1. Setup and Configure ETV Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4. Configure ETV Resources for SSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 6. Network Video Recording NVR Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 NVR Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 NVR Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 10. Amino Set Top Box Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Connecting the Amino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Configuring the Amino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Backing Up the Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 15. Manual System Backup System Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 System Restore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Index viii Contents
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Portal Server v4.2.1 Admin Guide This Portal Server Admin Guide is written for anyone who will be using or evaluating the VBrick EtherneTV Portal Server. This includes system administrators, software developers, network technicians, and others. The ETV Portal Server is a web-based portal for accessing and managing video assets including both live or stored audio and video files. The ETV Portal Server is a key component in VBrick's EtherneTV Media Distribution System. The ETV Portal Server p
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VBPresenter explains how to configure and launch rich media presentation from the Portal Server including those created with VBPresenter. Auto Content Ingestion explains auto content ingestion. This is the process whereby video content is automatically populated on the portal server. EtherneTV Backup explains how to automatically backup the MySQL database and other key directories if you purchased EtherneTV Backup. Amino Set Top Box explains how to connect and use the Amino set top box to vi
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Font Conventions Arial bold is used to describe dialog boxes and menu choices, for example: Start > All Programs > VBrick Courier fixed-width font is used for code elements (C++, HTML) as well as filenames, directories, etc. Black Courier fixed-width font is used to indicate user input in keyboard commands, scripts, etc. Folder names and user examples are displayed in this sans serif font. Folder names and user input are displayed in this bold sans serif font. Italics are used to emphasize sp
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xii Preface
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Chapter 1F Introduction Topics in this chapter Portal Server Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Portal Server Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Portal Server Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Portal Server Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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available media assets on your network. Upon accessing the main portal page, users can navigate or search for specific videos, select the video, and immediately begin viewing DVD Fast Forward/Rewind and Seek to specific quality video. For on-demand videos, users can points in the video. Standard access control functionality provides restriction of certain content to particular users, user groups, or set top boxes. An optional scheduling module allows users to schedule devices to send video
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Introduction PC Type Requirements Macintosh PCs • Mac OS 10.3 or higher for PowerPC. • Mac OC 10.4 or higher for Intel-based PC. • Firefox for Macintosh 2.0 or higher. • QuickTime Player 6.0 or higher. • Internet Explorer on a Macintosh is not supported. Linux PCs • Red Hat Fedora Core 3. •FireFox 2.0. • 512 MB RAM. Copyright Protection The Portal Server uses copyright restrictions and content expiration to protect the rights of content owners and to enforce rules against unauthorized usage or
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MySQL EtherneTV Portal Server is shipped with MySQL as the database. The MySQL database is installed as part of the Portal Server installation package. If the hardware/software combination was purchased from VBrick, MySQL will already be installed on your machine; the default user name is root. To protect the integrity of the database, you should change the default password (vbrick_18) after initial installation and periodically thereafter as explained below. To backup the MySQL database, s
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Introduction • Set Top Box users can use familiar Channel Up/Down keys and other hot keys on the IR remote control to navigate through video listings. • Users can search through the list of Live or On-Demand videos by Title, Keyword, Description, or other custom fields defined by an ETV Portal Server administrator. • Users can record and store videos on the EtherneTV-VOD Video-on-Demand server via ETV Portal Server. • Users can publish pre-recorded content and thumbnails directly to the VOD s
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• Autoingestion to the EtherneTV-VOD server – content placed in autoingestion folders on the ETV Portal Server will be automatically transferred and ingested into the EtherneTV-VOD server. • Customized global messages can display on the ETV Portal Server interface. • Channel numbers can be assigned to live streams. • Define a startup channel for STBs – the STB will automatically tune into this channel when users select the Live TV option. • Emergency broadcasts – can define pre-configured em
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Introduction servers assessable to LAN users only (within a secured corporate network and behind a firewall) are called LAN-zone servers. Content added by users in the LAN zone will be ingested to all VOD servers for which they have permissions using the Add Video page. Users in the Internet zone have the Add Video page available only if they have permissions for at least one VOD server that is also in the Internet zone. Content added by LAN users is added to all configured servers that can
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• Internet ETV users can add video only to VOD servers in the Internet zone. • Internet users can only see MPEG-4 and Windows Media content stored on Internet- based servers. • Internet servers do not support ETV scheduling features. ETV Set Top Box EtherneTV-STBs access the ETV Portal Server through a web browser within the Set Top Box. Using the Set-Top Box remote control, users can navigate and search for specific on- demand content or live video streams, select a stream, and begin viewing t
