Creating SmoothFlow Media Assets

Media assets must be created and pre-staged, to origin. You have two different options:

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Creating Assets Using an SaaS—Juniper Networks provides python publishing scripts that work with encoding.com Software as a Service (SaaS) to encode, process, and pre-stage data to a reliable origin server for delivery via Media Flow Controller. Additional encoding services will be supported in the future.

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Creating On-Demand Assets—You encode the media into multi-bitrate profile files using the method of your choice, create the Asset Description file, pre-stage the assets to an origin server, and initiate SmoothFlow processing from Media Flow Controller so the asset is ready for SmoothFlow delivery when a request arrives (on-demand).