Ingestion

Ingestion brings media into Media Server so that it can be processed. For example, if you ingest video then Media Server must extract the video and audio from the container and decode the streams so that they can be analyzed and transcoded.

Your configuration must include exactly one ingest task. For example:

[Ingest]
IngestEngine=LibAvIngest
[LibAvIngest]
Type=libav

This example specifies a single ingest task named LibAvIngest. The engine used to complete the task is the libav ingest engine. Notice that no source file or stream is specified in the configuration. You provide the path of a file or the URL of a stream to Media Server in the Process action when you start processing.

Ingest engines produce one or more image tracks and possibly audio tracks:

For example, if you ingest video from a TV broadcast, Media Server might produce one image track, Image_1, and three audio tracks: Audio_French_1, Audio_English_2, and Audio_German_3.


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