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x Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The Sun MediaCenter DocumentationSuiteThis manual is a companion to the Sun MediaCenter

6-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997All ftp commands except rename, when used with the Sun MediaCenter FTPdaemon, accept t

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-76.3.1 Listing FilesdirThe dir command lists the names of the data and index files associated with thetit

6-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997lsLike the dir command, the ls command lists the names of the data and indexfiles assoc

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-9Examples of mls use:6.3.2 Moving FilesWhen copying a data file (that is, an MPEG file), as distinguished

6-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997With regard to video-file attributes, when you get or mget files, (the Media FileSystem

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-11getThe get command allows you to copy a video file from a Sun MediaCenter serverto a local file system.

6-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19976.3.2.2 Moving Multiple TitlesThe mget and mput commands are intended for the backup

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-13mputThe mput command copies files from a local file system to a Sun MediaCenterserver. mput allows you t

6-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19976.3.4 Deleting FilesdeleteThe delete (or del) command allows you to delete a video fil

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-15As an example, consider that you encode the title “Batman” at 3 Mbits/sec., inMPEG Transport Stream fo

xiAppendix A “Setting up the SNMP Agent,” tells you how to make use of the SNMPagent that is shipped with the Sun MediaCenter server.Appendix B “Creat

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7-1CHAPTER7Server Output Data FormatThis chapter describes the format of the data that is output from the SunMediaCenter Server. It also tells you how

7-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997controlled by the Content Manager (CM). Utilities that use the CM are described inChap

Chapter 7 Server Output Data Format 7-37.2.2 MPEG-2 Program Stream Packet EncapsulationThe MPEG-2 Program Stream can have any packet size. The server

7-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19977.3 ATM AddressingYou specify the destination address with the MSMC API’s msmSetConnec

Chapter 7 Server Output Data Format 7-5The address is a string of the following format:The components of this address are as follows: The <IP host

7-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 7-2 LAN/Enterprise Scenario7.4.1 MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet EncapsulationAs

Chapter 7 Server Output Data Format 7-77.4.2 MPEG-2 Program Stream Packet EncapsulationThe MPEG-2 Program Stream is not defined to have any fixed packet

7-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The components of this address are as follows: The <IP hostname> is the destina

Chapter 7 Server Output Data Format 7-97.7 Differences Among Different Types ofLinksThe following are distinctions among the ways a Sun MediaCenter se

xii Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Shell Prompts in Command ExamplesThe following table shows the default system prompt a

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8-1CHAPTER8Administering MFS DisksThis chapter tells how to monitor MFS disks and how to detect and respond to diskfailures.8.1 Monitoring MFS DisksTh

8-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997You can also use the Solstice Domain Manager (or other SNMP-conformantprogram) to moni

Chapter 8 Administering MFS Disks 8-3mfs df usage is as follows:The mfs df command has the following options:-kSpace is reported in kilobytes, rather

8-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Note in the verbose mfs df output, above, that the MFS block size (64k) is reported,as

Chapter 8 Administering MFS Disks 8-5MPEGPSMPEG Program Stream packet format.MPEG1SYSMPEG-1 System Stream packet format.MPEGTCEMPEG Thomson Consumer E

8-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997mfs repair usage is as follows:The arguments to mfs repair are described below:-cPerfo

Chapter 8 Administering MFS Disks 8-7To find out which MFS disk has failed, you enter:mfs repair reports that the disk at c1t3d0s2 has failed. Chapter

8-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Following this command, use the mfs repair commands described above toreplace the fail

Chapter 8 Administering MFS Disks 8-9Following invocation without the -f option, mkmfs prompts you for the informationrequired to build an MFS. For ex

1-1CHAPTER1Introduction1.1 IntroductionThe Sun MediaCenter server is a combination of standard server hardware andspecial software that is optimized f

8-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The meta-file for the MFS is stored in /var/opt/SUNWsms/MFS. Use the Solarisformat com

Chapter 8 Administering MFS Disks 8-11In the output above, make note of the SCSI disk address (similar to the numberc1t4d0s2). Chapter 3 of the Sun Me

8-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The procedure to replace and restore a parity disk is the same as for a data disk. Ap

9-1CHAPTER9Access Control ListsYou restrict Sun MediaCenter server operations to specific users by creating accesscontrol lists (ACLs). You can create

9-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19979.2 PermissionsAll files used for ACLs support the following syntax:<user>:<pe

Chapter 9 Access Control Lists 9-3...with the result that all users have read permission. For example, with only readpermission for a Sun MediaCenter

9-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19979.5 Title ACLEach content title has an ACL which is accessible either programmatically

Chapter 9 Access Control Lists 9-5A session ACL has a single type of permission.A programmer who invokes cmClientCreate() to create a session obtains

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10-1CHAPTER10TroubleshootingThis chapter describes tools you can use to track down problems you might havewith your Sun MediaCenter server.The most us

1-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997 a Content Manager (CM), which includes an RPC-based API that allows users tomove con

10-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Underperforming stream outputPossible cause is network congestion. Use a network anal

Chapter 10 Troubleshooting 10-3Poor video qualityPossible causes: Content is stored at a bit rate different from that at which it wasencoded. Content

10-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Unable to create title on the MFS.Likely cause: A filled MFS or a disk failure. In thi

Chapter 10 Troubleshooting 10-5WARNING: stream id 107 (ba@426,3,80@) xmit error: Q size 33Cause: Low-level software has detected a transmission error.

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A-1APPENDIXASetting up the SNMP AgentThe Sun MediaCenter software is shipped with its own SNMP agent, which is partof the SUNWsmsnm package. This ag

A-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Note – A caveat on the use of the SNMP agent shipped with the Sun MediaCenterserver: I

Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-3admTotalDelay Total delay for the admission of all streams since last reboot, inmilliseconds.admAverageDelay A

A-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997diskLateTime Time at which the late event was detected, in microseconds.diskLateDurati

Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-5The SMC MIB attributes can be categorized a number of different ways. One way isto divide the attributes betwe

Chapter 1 Introduction 1-3FIGURE 1-1 High-level Hardware ArchitectureContent is loaded onto the Sun MediaCenter server via the server’s ContentManager

A-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The remaining attributes, those not in TABLE A-2, are counters, sizes, identifiers, and

Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-73. Edit $SNMHOME/struct/elements.schema, to add lines for the SunMediaCenter server.Use the lines for the SPAR

A-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19976. Run: build_oid (with no arguments).This program maps names in Sun MediaCenter serve

Appendix A Setting up the SNMP Agent A-9As an example of a the SNMP agent’s capability, the following is a Quick Dumpreport for the bitPump attribute

A-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19972 Missed_DeadlineThe Sun MediaCenter software ensures delivery of media streams at th

B-1APPENDIXBCreating a Content PackageThis appendix describes a content package, which is one way that content can beprepared for storage on a Sun Med

B-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997B.1 Content PackageA content package is a collection of separate MPEG streams that re

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-3FIGURE B-1 Structure of a Content PackageNote – If your content consists of a single bit stream, you do not n

B-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997A TOC file is described with the following structures:Some rules regarding the encoding

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-5B.2.1 ContentObjectsThe structure contains the overall information for the content package.B.2.1.1 titleThe t

1-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19971.3 Sun MediaCenter SoftwareThe Sun MediaCenter software has three major components, t

B-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997MPEGTCEDSS transport format wherein the server transports data in units of 130-bytepac

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-7B.2.2.3 bitrateThe bitrate property, expressed in bits/sec., specifies the bit rate at which the MPEGdata file

B-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997B.2.3.2 filepathThe filepath property is a string specifying the pathname of the data fil

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-9The fields in the TOC file are described as follows:titleA name of your choosing. After you have stored the ti

B-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The following is an example of a TOC file for a multi-part title:B.5 Index File Requir

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-11Note – For video formatted as MPEG-2 Transport Streams, the CM automaticallygenerates index files for titles

B-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997 NPTs for a reverse-playing stream must monotonically decrease, from beginningto end

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-13FIGURE B-2 Tape Storage FormatThe TOC file must be positioned as the first file in the tar tape and must have a

B-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The recommended block size of the tar format is 500 512-byte blocks, or 256,000bytes.

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-15The content of the TOC file bambi.TOC is shown below. It contains attributes forevery bit stream included in

Chapter 1 Introduction 1-5With the exception of the APIs for the MSM and CM, the workings of the server’ssoftware components are largely invisible to

B-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The textual content of index files for various speeds are shown below. Theseexamples

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-17For a file bambi.1x (index file for normal-speed play):For a file bambi.21x (index file for twenty-one times nor

B-18 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997For a file bambi.n21x (index file for twenty-one times normal speed, in reverse):In the

Appendix B Creating a Content Package B-19CCITT Recommendation X.209 (1988): Specification of Basic Encoding Rules forAbstract Syntax Notation One (ASN

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Glossary-1GlossaryThis glossary contains general, multimedia-related terms, as well as terms specific tothe Sun MediaCenter product. Words and phrases

Glossary-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997luminance A matrix, block, or single sample representing a monochrome represent

Glossary-3Table of Contents(TOC) file A fundamental component of a content package. A TOC file lists the set ofindex and data files that contain the bit

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Index-1IndexAaccess control list, definition of, Glossary-1access control list, title, 5-1active streams, detecting number of, 3-21, A-2admin permissio

1-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Hot swappabilityThe MFS supports the replacement of a failed disk while the server con

Index-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997content requirements, 2-1content requirements for trick play, 2-2content, utility

Index-3loading content with smc_tar, 5-9loading content, with smc_copy, 5-4ls command, in ftp, 6-8luminance, definition of, Glossary-2Mmanagement datab

Index-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997playthrough, support in the MFS, 1-5Program Association Table, encodingrequirement

Index-5title access control list, 5-1title ACL permissions, 5-2title naming convention, B-5title, setting access to, 5-2titles, obtainiing list of on

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1-7 schedulerThe scheduler sorts and schedules disk I/O, manages bit pump buffers, performsadmission control, and schedules ou

PleaseRecycle 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 U.S.A.This product and related docume

1-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The MSM’s primary interface is the MSM Client API, described in the SunMediaCenter Ser

Chapter 1 Introduction 1-91.4.1 ATMIn an ATM environment, one or more Sun MediaCenter servers are directlyconnected to an ATM switch via ATM host adap

1-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 1-5 Sun MediaCenter Servers in LAN environment1.5 Content Preparation and Load

Chapter 1 Introduction 1-111.6 Server ManagementAn SNMP agent is provided is provided with the Sun MediaCenter software. Thisagent includes the follow

1-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997delivery support output only. The MSM Client API has calls that allow you tospecify a

2-1CHAPTER2Preparing and Loading ContentThis chapter specifies what video content should consist of and how it should beformatted, as required by the S

2-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997 The timing information embedded in an MPEG file must exactly reflect theconstant bit r

Chapter 2 Preparing and Loading Content 2-3 All trick files must be encoded at a bit rate that is less than or equal to the bit rateof the normal-spee

2-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19972.3.2 closed_gopThe closed_gop is a one-bit flag that indicates the nature of the predi

Chapter 2 Preparing and Loading Content 2-52.4 Content LoadingThe preferred method of storing content on a Sun MediaCenter server is to use theWeb-bas

Contents iiiContents1. Introduction 1-11.1 Introduction 1-11.2 Sun MediaCenter Hardware 1-21.3 Sun MediaCenter Software 1-41.3.1 Media File System (MF

2-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997 The machine on which your content is stored does not have ftp client software. For

Chapter 2 Preparing and Loading Content 2-72.5 ReferencesISO/IEC 13818-1/2/3 Recommendation H.262: “Generic Coding of Moving Picturesand Associated Au

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3-1CHAPTER3Monitoring the ServerThis chapter describes the Sun MediaCenter WebAdmin tool, a Web-based graphicaluser interface (GUI) for monitoring the

3-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19973.2 Using the WebAdmin ToolYou can run WebAdmin from the following: Any browser that

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-3FIGURE 3-1 Sun MediaCenter PageYou may need to set security on your browser to allow the WebAdmin applet toconnect

3-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Once the applet loads, the Resource Utilization page is displayed:FIGURE 3-2 Resource

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-53.2.2 Common Page ElementsThis section describes the items that appear at the top of each page in theWebAdmin tool.

3-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997Videos being copiedDisplays the number of content movement sessions on the server. Cli

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-7FIGURE 3-3 Streaming Videos PageThe top portion of the Streaming Videos page shows the number of streams that arebe

iv Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19972.3 Splice Points 2-32.3.1 Packet Boundary 2-32.3.2 closed_gop 2-42.3.3 payload_unit_st

3-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997 the title being viewed speed (Fast-Forward, Slow Motion, Stopped, Playing, Reverse)

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-9This page shows the following information about the stream being viewed:Stream Name and DirectionTitle and directio

3-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 3-5 Copy Sessions PageThe top of the Copy Sessions page shows the number of co

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-11Click on the session icon to view more information about this stream. The SessionInformation page shows detailed i

3-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997This page displays the following information:StateCreating or OpeningShared or Exclus

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-13FIGURE 3-7 Disk Capacity PageA red, Failed Disk icon appears at the top of this page only if there is a failed dis

3-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The bottom portion of the Disk Capacity page displays the disks in groups, asspecified

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-15The top portion of the Disk Info page shows statistics about the usage of the disk.The bottom portion of the page

3-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 3-9 Troubleshooting PageThe Troubleshooting page contains the following links:

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-173.7.1 Disk HealthThis page shows the status of disks in the MFS.The Disk Health page is shown below:FIGURE 3-10 Di

Contents v4.4 Table of Contents Page 4-124.4.1 View Menu 4-134.4.2 Selected Menu 4-155. Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-15.1 Setting a Title Access

3-18 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The Disk Health page displays the disks in groups, as specified by the RAID layout.Ind

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-19:FIGURE 3-11 Console Log PageYou can use the search function at the bottom of the page to search for a specificstri

3-20 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19973.7.3 Scheduler and BitpumpThe Bitpump page displays information about the Sun MediaC

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-21TABLE 3-1 describes the fields in this page.TABLE 3-1 Scheduler and Bitpump StatisticsActiveActive Streams Number o

3-22 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997AdmitMax Active Maximum number of streams allowed. This a fixed value.Max Bw Maximum b

Chapter 3 Monitoring the Server 3-23bitPumpbitPumpStreams Current number of bit pump streams.bitPumpBandwidth Bandwidth of the bit pump, in bits/sec.

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4-1CHAPTER4Moving ContentThis chapter describes the Sun MediaCenter CmTool, a Web-based graphical userinterface (GUI) that allows you to transfer cont

4-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19974.2 Using CmToolYou can run CmTool from the following: Any browser that is fully comp

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-3FIGURE 4-1 Sun MediaCenter PageYou may need to set security on your browser to allow the CmTool applet to connectto your l

vi Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19977. Server Output Data Format 7-17.1 Introduction 7-17.2 ATM Encapsulation 7-27.2.1 MPEG

4-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 4-2 Table of Contents Page

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-54.2.2 Common Page ElementsThis section describes the items that appear at the top of each page in CmTool.Specific elements

4-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 4-3 Server Login PageYou enter in a username and password for the Sun MediaCent

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-7FIGURE 4-4 Load Content PageThe disk space available on the server is shown in the upper right corner of thepage. To load

4-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 4-5 Content on Remote SystemTo copy a title from a remote system or local filesy

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-9You are prompted to specify a title for the content on the server, as shown inFIGURE 4-6. You can enter a name that is dif

4-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997You are prompted to confirm the copy operation, as shown in FIGURE 4-7. Click thesmc_c

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-11The Session Information page, shown in FIGURE 4-8, shows the status of the contenttransfer.FIGURE 4-8 Session Information

4-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19974.4 Table of Contents PageThis section describes the View and Selected menu options o

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-134.4.1 View MenuThe View menu provides options that affect the display of titles in the Table ofContents page. The followi

Contents vii9. Access Control Lists 9-19.1 ACL Files 9-19.2 Permissions 9-29.3 Server ACL 9-29.4 Player ACL 9-39.5 Title ACL 9-49.6 Session ACL 9-410.

4-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 4-11 Sort Dialog BoxTo sort by one or more attributes, click on the attribute

Chapter 4 Moving Content 4-154.4.2 Selected MenuThe Selected menu allows you to view more information about a selected title, andto rename, delete, or

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5-1CHAPTER5Sun MediaCenter Server UtilitiesThis chapter describes the utilities shipped with the Sun MediaCenter software.Sun MediaCenter software off

5-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997When you create a new title on a Sun MediaCenter server by, for example, usingsmc_copy

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-3For the -d (delete) option, <title_users> stands for a comma-separated list of items ofthe form:..

5-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19975.2 The smc_copy UtilityThe smc_copy utility copies content, specified by a title name

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-5filenameThe name of a file in the form specified by a local filesystem, such as UFS or NFS.The filename might

5-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997-t typeIndicates the type of the file, either data or index. A data file is an MPEG file.

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-7The following command performs the same function as the preceding, except the -tand -s options are made

viii Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997B.6 Tape Storage Format B-12B.6.1 Tar Format B-12B.6.2 Tapes B-14B.7 Example B-14B.8

5-8 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19975.3 The smc_tar UtilityIf you cannot use ftp to load content, as explained in Section

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-9the last argument in the command line if the b option is after the f option.<blknum> immediately f

5-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 5-1 Loading Content with smc_tarAfter loading content with smc_tar, you can pa

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-11Using smc_tar, you can copy files that were loaded onto the server by means otherthan smc_tar, such as w

5-12 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19975.3.4 Remote Copying and ExtractionYou can run smc_tar from a Sun MediaCenter server

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-13The preceding command differs from the one before it in two respects, indicated bythe w and b options.

5-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997A useful technique for situations in which your MPEG file resides on CD-ROM is tocreat

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-15Examples of scripts that use smc_tar are shown below. The following scriptarchives content to the local

5-16 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The following script locates a specified content title from a previously-createdSMCBac

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-175.4 The smc_ls UtilityThe smc_ls utility lists the titles available for playback on a Sun MediaCenterse

Preface ixPrefaceThis document, the Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide, tells you how to setup, load content onto, and perform other adminis

5-18 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The other smc_ls options affect the display and sort of the title output. As a genera

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-19-rReverse the order of the sort. This option applies across all other sort options.-SDisplay the play s

5-20 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997The following example displays a “long listing” of the content on the local SunMediaC

Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-21The following example displays a long list of the current titles on the local server,with the output re

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6-1CHAPTER6Sun MediaCenter ServerFTP DaemonThis chapter describes the Sun MediaCenter server FTP daemon. This daemonallows any ftp user—on any operati

6-2 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997FIGURE 6-1 Sun MediaCenter FTP FunctionsFTP ClientSun MediaCenter ServerSoftwareStanda

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-36.1 Keyword for Video-File FunctionsThe keyword smc: in an ftp command invokes a video-file function. So

6-4 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 19976.2 Video-File AttributesA piece of video content is stored as a title on a Sun MediaC

Chapter 6 Sun MediaCenter Server FTP Daemon 6-5The attribute values of the title named Bambi indicate a normal-play, forward-direction, MPEG file that