Jun 2017

The version 8 packager is a new concept for packaging, unlike previous versions the v8 packager is a Just in Time (JIT) packager. This means that the packager only starts to provide a packaged output when requested. The packager is recording all of the time, and the recorder process records incoming ABR streams as a dash style TS mezzanine format.

This is the minimum hardware specification for a server (or VM) running the Packaging v8.

MFVP application CPU RAM memory Disk
MFVP Packaging Two E5-2660 v3 Intel
CPUs (2.2GHz) with
memory interleaving
and CPU Hyper
threading options
enabled
64GB 80GB HDD

For the Packager v8, CenOS is still in the v6.x thread. If you have anything higher, the application will refuse to install.

MFVP application Operating System
MFVP Packaging Linux CentOS and RedHat 6.5 and higher
releases of 6.x baseline up to 6.7

The Packager must be time synchronised with an NTP source, the same source that is time synchronising the MFEL. More information on NTP configuration is given below in the installation notes.

The host network configuration is set-up including:

• IP configuration of network adapters
• Network Interface bounding when necessary
• Specific routes when necessary (example: multicast, ip route add 239.2.3.202 via “ip_address”) 

This is critical, failure to do this will result in no input multicasts.

NOTE In case of distributed deployment, all the network interface names must be the same on all the servers for each subnetwork.

The MFVP Packaging product provides the capability to produce DVR and VOD assets.

Depending on your equipment and needs, MFVP Packaging can be deployed in a standalone mode or in a distributed mode.

In a standalone deployment mode, each MFVP Packaging server manages its own DVR and Vod assets and UI. If two MFVP Packaging servers are installed in a standalone mode in your environment, they will be managed separately and won’t be able to share data.

The distributed deployment mode allows you to set up a large quantity of MFVP Packaging servers in your environment and to control all of your DVR and Vod assets through any host on MFVP Packaging has been installed.

All the MFVP Packaging servers that belong to the distributed environment must have:

• time synchronized on the same NTP. • port 27017 opened in each server firewall.

For this product, we are assuming the standard CentOS minimal installation has been used. Please ensure that automatic updates are not enabled. This is for two reasons:

1. The product won’t randomly reboot due to an update being applied
2. The produce won’t be upgraded past the v6.7 cut off (if you upgrade 6.x, you will end up with v6.9, this won’t work with the packager installer).