Tutorial: Delivering to Internet and Intranet Viewers with the DVEO Magnus Anytime Family of Products
This tutorial explores the workflow and application of the DVEO Magnus Anytime family of products, which combine high-density H.264 encoding and an integrated streaming server for multiple screen delivery both inside and outside your firewall.
Monitoring the Streams
Next, we’ll go back to Stream Setup to make sure the streams are up and running. Figure 18 (below) indicates that they’ve been up for about 10 minutes (607 seconds, to be precise).
Figure 18. Service Control in the Stream Setup tab indicates that streams are live.
Then, by choosing Helix Setup > Monitor > Server Monitor, we can monitor the streams in the Helix Server monitoring function (Figure 19, below). The two encoders tell us that both groups of files are being encoded.
Figure 19. Encodes for both groups of files are under way.
Any computer or mobile device with access to the URL can play the stream (Figure 20, below).
Figure 20. Accessing the HLS stream to test it.
On the computer I’m using, I can test the HLS stream in the VLC player, and test the Flash streams in the Moyea FLV Player--where, as you can see in Figure 21 (below), it’s playing fine. Both sets of streams are up and running.
Figure 21. Testing the streams in the VLC player (background) and the Moyea FLV Player (foreground).
There are lots of streaming encoders out there, and lots of media servers. But the DVEO Magnus Anytime product line is one of the few that combines both functions, creating a powerful value proposition for producers who need to supply simultaneous internal and external streams.
This tutorial was sponsored by DVEO, who also provided the equipment used to produce it.