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Content Management Application (CMA)
6.5.1
Content Scanning
Incorrectly encoded content can cause issues with playback performance, network synchronization, and graphics engine stability.
To prevent this, the CMA automatically scans content locally on your computer (or the Axon media server) before actually loading
it. If no warnings or errors are found, the content is loaded on to the server. If warnings or errors are found, a dialog box describes
specific content problems.
Warnings are problems that will potentially cause issues with playback of the media on the fixture, but won't affect graphics
engine stability. An example would be a movie not being encoded with all I-frames or not having an End-of-Sequence header. The
CMA will allow these files to be loaded on to the server, but it will alert you to potential issues by displaying the warnings in a
dialog.
Errors are more serious problems with content that can create severe stability issues in media server software; for example,
content encoded as the wrong type of stream (Transport Stream instead of an Elementary Stream). Errors are caused when content
does not adhere to the MPEG2 encoding standard. When an error is found, the CMA will not allow this content to be loaded on to
a server at all. A dialog will describe the issue, and after dismissing the dialog, you will find the specific file has not been loaded
onto the server.
6.5.2
CMA Interaction
When you drag a content file (or folder) on to a server, a dialog shows the progress of the file copy process. If there is nothing
wrong with the content, it copies to the fixture.
If warnings or errors are found, the CMA compiles the list of issues in the bottom half of the
Since the CMA executes the scanning/copying process for the entire group of folders/files in a single operation, it
will not stop or pause during the process to dismiss the errors.
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