Field Name | Required | Description |
Device Name | Yes | This can be a name of your choosing. This is a required field. Descriptive location or host name is recommended. |
Status | The status of your device may be set to Active or Inactive upon adding it to your system. | |
MAC Address | Yes | The MAC Address is required. Copy the MAC Address for a DME from the System Configuration > Network Pages of VBAdmin in the DME. |
VOD Playback Device | Selected if the DME is intended to be used as a Video on Demand (VOD) playback device for serving stored video content. If more than one DME is designated as available for storage, then content will be pushed to all such designated DMEs. | |
Preposition Content | Available if VOD Playback Device is selected. Enable this setting to specify which DMEs on the network receive prepositioned video files for playback; should only be used if using MESH. See: Preposition DME Content topic in Rev’s Online help. | |
Video Streams | Yes | In most cases, you may generate your URLs dynamically through the Create URLs tab. Particularly if you have been following this guide to set up Rev live streaming and recording with Vbrick Devices. You should also make sure the Enable HLS checkbox is selected for mobile streaming and the Add HLS Akamai Publishing Point checkbox to create HLS streams that will be used with Akamai. Keep in mind that stream names are case sensitive. Name, URL, Encoding Type, and Multicast may also be designated through the Advanced tab > Add URL button if adding manually though the Advanced tab. However, this tab should not be used unless you are very familiar with adding streams and associated settings. Video streams will later be selected on Presentation Profiles and Zones as viewing destinations. Note: DME v3.10 and greater devices are capable of registering fully qualified domain names in order to play HTTPS content to the Rev HTML5 video player. Therefore, DME streaming URLs may or may not contain an IP address hostname. See DME documentation for set up details. For more information on DME Video Streams in Rev, see: Add a Distributed Media Engine (DME) Video Stream topic Rev’s admin section of Online help and
"Add HLS and HLS Akamai Publishing Point Streams" below. |
Tip: If you have zones and a zone hierarchy set up, make sure you add your new DME device to it. Otherwise, your video will not play! |