Write Video to a Rolling Buffer

To write ingested video to a rolling buffer, follow these steps.

To write video to a rolling buffer

  1. Create a new configuration to send to Media Server with the process action, or open an existing configuration that you want to modify.

  2. In the [Session] section, add a new task by setting the EngineN parameter. You can give the task any name, for example:

    [Session]
    Engine0=Ingest
    Engine1=RollingBuffer
    
  3. Create a new configuration section to contain the task settings, and set the following parameters:

    Type The type of engine to use. Set this parameter to RollingBuffer.
    Stream The name of the rolling buffer to write video to. You must have created the rolling buffer (see Set Up Rolling Buffers).
    AudioProfile The audio encoding profile to use.
    VideoProfile The video encoding profile to use.

    For example:

    [RollingBuffer]
    Type=RollingBuffer
    Stream=NewsChannel
    AudioProfile=mpeg4audio
    VideoProfile=mpeg4video_h264_sd
  4. Save and close the configuration file. Micro Focus recommends that you save your configuration files in the location specified by the ConfigDirectory parameter.