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Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual

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Chapter 7

Advanced functions

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Choose button: Click to open a dialog for locating a destination for the HTTP live streaming assets.

Segment Duration field: Enter a value (in seconds) to define the segment lengths for the media.
This value defines how the video streams are split into segments. Segmentation governs when
the web server can switch between the various video formats while streaming to a device
with varying network connection speeds. A smaller value allows the server to respond more
quickly to changing connection speeds.

“Create Read Me file with sample HTML” checkbox: Select this checkbox to include a file with
basic HTTP live streaming usage information.

Run Automator Workflow
Use this form to choose an Automator script to run.

Choose button: Click to open a dialog for locating and selecting an Automator script that
Compressor will execute automatically on completion of the transcoding job.