Automated Media Publishing

This section contains detailed information about how to implement the automated publishing workflows described in Automated Workflows. Whichever method you use, the basic objective is the same. You need to:

  1. Define a content item of the correct type in the Content Engine. In this case it must be an external video content type as described in Defining an External Video Content Type or an external audio content type as described in Defining an External Audio Content Type. The definition must include all required fields. The most important of these is the video field described in Defining an External Video Content Type or the audio field described in Defining an External Audio Content Type, which must contain JSON data specifying the URI and MIME type of the video/audio to be published, plus optional additional information specifying crop points, cue points and transient links.

  2. Create the defined content item.

  3. Change the status of the content item to published. This causes the Content Engine to send the video/audio to VME Online for transcoding and key frame generation.