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Using Ingest Manager
Using Ingest Manager
About Ingest Manager
If Ingest Manager is running in your iTX system, you can use this to automate the process of
recording media from video feeds at specified times.
Ingest Manager handles requests to record video feeds that come into your iTX system. The
requests may come from one of its own services, the Scheduled Booking Service, which
manages advance bookings. Or you may make manual requests for instant recordings through a
feature – called the Instant Ingest Request panel – on an Ingest Manager layout.
In response to these requests, Ingest Manager prepares a recording schedule – a list of
recording jobs. As each job becomes due, Ingest Manager controls an Encode Server to perform
the recording. It can control multiple Encode Servers at the same time, to record different
video feeds.
You can monitor the recording schedule at your iTX Desktop, and take action to prevent
recording problems.
Depending on the design of your iTX system, Ingest Manager may operate a router to select
video feeds. If it does not, it accepts any feed that is connected directly to an Encode Server –
we say the feed, in this case, is “hard-wired” into the Encode Server.
Ingest Manager handles two types of recording job: planned and ad-hoc.
Planned recordings
Planned recordings are jobs that Ingest Manager schedules from booking requests made
through its Scheduled Booking Service. They may be one-off recordings of feeds that happen
just once, or repeat recordings of feeds that happen at regular intervals.
There are two ways of making a booking request: you may do it manually, by using a feature on
an Ingest Manager layout; or another application (e.g. an external traffic system) may generate
one.
The look-ahead period for planned recordings
Ingest Manager stores booking requests as it receives them. It continually reviews them and
identifies what recordings should happen within a certain period, known as its look-ahead
period. This is the length of future time covered by the recording schedule; it starts each time
Ingest Manager reviews the requests, and typically covers the next 12, 24 or 36 hours. (Your
system administrator should be able to tell you what the setting is for your system.)
For requested recordings that fall within its look-ahead period, Ingest Manager adds jobs to the
recording schedule.
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