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Disseminating a live VOD list on Streaming video
This guide explains how live broadcast a list of videos of the VOD service with the product Streaming video.
Preamble
- This feature makes it possible to use the VOD service to create a playlist of videos and then use the Streaming video service to broadcast it live, e.g. as part of a music channel, teleshopping, documentaries, etc.
- It is possible to drag ads between each video, manually or by using VAST tags.
- The playlist will be played in an infinite loop until the user stops it.
Streaming a VOD playlist
Prerequisites
- To have a VOD service (at least the free VOD space with the Streaming video service).
- Owning a Streaming video service in the same Organization and managed by the same account.
To make up the playlist, import a few videos:
- Click here in order to access the management of your product on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
- Click directly on the nameallocated to the product concerned.
- Click on the button Select (in the partRapid import).
Once the videos are imported:
- Click on Media in the left side menu.
- Click on Playlists / WebTV in the left side menu.
- Click on the button for add a new playlist.
- Name the playlist and determine if it should be automatic (related to a file) or manual.
- Choose the specific folder or videos to use to build the playlist.
- Click on the button Create a Direct:
- Choose the service stream of Streaming video which will have to broadcast the playlist and adjust your preferences:
Some examples of use
The broadcast of a playlist can be used as fallback solution as soon as a live shuts down (voluntaryly or unintentionally) and in this case take the relay to the antenna. As soon as the live encoder pushes back a stream, he takes his hand on the playlist. This makes it possible to broadcast alternative content if there is a problem on the direct or if the user only broadcasts live live in the evening, e.g., it can automate the broadcast of playlist content the rest of the day.
It is also possible to program the broadcast of a playlist from the video streaming planning tool. Thus one can choose unique or different playlist broadcast range in advance, or in a recurring way. The encoder broadcasting live will be disconnected automatically throughout the broadcast of the playlist; once the time range is over, the encoder will reconnect and its content will be broadcast.
A VOD playlist can be created and edited manually (by going to get the video that needs to complete the list) or being dynamic if automatically constituted by a batch of videos in a specific folder and fed as they are. In both cases, Stop and restart live streaming to take into account any new video added to the playlist - Note that this will no longer be mandatory when the tool is updated in the future.