Oct 2021

IPHE comes with a set of pre-defined encoding profiles, but no way to manually add a new one from the MDT UI (at the time of writing).

To create a new encoding profile, the best way to do this is to duplicate and existing MDT profile. We just then need to edit a few lines in the profile and re-upload it.

Open the MDT application (https://ipaddress:30443) and login using mdt-admin / changeme.



Now look for an appropriate encoding profile to download (I normally take encoding-hd) and select the 'export profile' button.



The encoding profile (a .yaml file) will now download.

— Alan Walker 2021/09/21 14:49 — Alan Walker 2021/09/21 14:49

Open the .yaml file (preferably in an editor that properly supports .yaml file formats (not notepad)) and save it to a new filename. If this is for a PoD per server then you can just save it as a new encoding filename like 'encoding-hd-custom.yaml' for example. If this is for a PoD per service, then save it including the service name, encoding-hd-bbc1.yaml for example.

Below is the format of the default encoding-hd yaml file:

mdt-kinds:
  - kind: profile
    name: encoding-hd
    version: ''
    packages:
      - deploy-package: encoding-live-worker-hd
        version: 25.14.76+4.0.19
  - kind: deploy-package
    deploy-package:
      name: encoding-live-worker-hd
      version: 25.14.76+4.0.19
    chart:
      name: encoding-live-worker
      version: 25.14.76
    namespace: '{{ products_var.namespace }}'
    deploy_list:
      - mkel-hd1
    options:
      mdt:
        deployment_stage: 5
        upgrade:
          policy: immediate
      helm:
        wait: false
        timeout: 300
    values:
      image:
        serverdaemon:
          repository: '{{ products_var.docker_registry }}/mediakind/server-daemon'
          tag: '{{ products_var.server_daemon.tag }}'
        worker:
          repository: '{{ products_var.docker_registry }}/mediakind/encoding-live-worker'
        redis:
          repository: '{{ products_var.docker_registry }}/redis'
          tag: '{{ products_var.redis.tag }}'
        alarmProxy:
          repository: '{{ products_var.docker_registry }}/mediakind/alarm-proxy'
          tag: '{{ products_var.alarm_proxy.tag }}'
        initcontainer:
          repository: '{{ products_var.docker_registry }}/busybox'
          tag: 1.30.1
      alarmsViaRedisInWorkerPod: '{{ products_var.features.alarmsViaRedisInWorkerPod }}'
      el_worker:
        server_mngt_nic: '{{ products_var.server_mngt_nic }}'
        mpeg4cfg: |
          perChannelLicensing=true
      qsv:
        enable: false
      mongo:
        name: '{{ products_var.mongo.name }}'
        database: '{{ products_var.mongo.replicasetname }}'
        replica: '{{ products_var.mongo.replica }}'
      muhook:
        enable: '{{ products_var.features.muconv }}'
        interface: '{{ products_var.server_mngt_nic }}'
        process_name: '*liveTranscoder'
        log_level: 4
        log_output: stderr
      unified_ui:
        name: api-gateway
      rabbitmq:
        name: '{{ products_var.rabbitmq.name }}'
      etcd_mu:
        name: '{{ products_var.etcd.name }}'
        port: '{{ products_var.etcd.port }}'
      redis:
        name: '{{ products_var.redis.name }}'
      volumes:
        log:
          enable: '{{ products_var.log_volume }}'
      license_server_addr: '{{ products_var.license_server }}'
      server_processing_name: LiveEncoder
      nodeSelector: '{{ mdt.current_profile.profile_name_label }}'
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: 9
      privilegedInitContainer:
        enabled: true
        command:
          - sysctl
          - '-w'
      affinity:
        podAntiAffinity:
          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
            - topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
              labelSelector:
                matchLabels:
                  app: encoding-live-worker

We need to change a few lines, see below for a side-by-side comparison, where the original text is on the left and the edited text on the right.