VMS Ingest Engine

The VMS ingest engine ingests video streamed from a Micro Focus Video Management Server.

Configuration Parameter Description
StreamTimeout The maximum amount of time to wait for the next frame.
Type The type of ingest engine to use. Set this parameter to VMS.

The VMS ingest engine produces the following tracks, where taskName is the name of the ingest task:

  • taskName.Image_1 - an image track that contains the video frames. This track can be referred to using the aliases Default_Image and Image_1.
  • taskName.Audio__1 (note the double underscore), an audio track, if audio is present in the stream from VMS. This track can be referred to using the alias Default_Audio.
  • taskName.Proxy - the proxy track.