Output
Select an option for distributing content:
- Push to a Windows Media server. Select if you want the encoder to initiate the connection to a server running Windows Media Services by using the HTTP protocol. You must provide the server name and publishing point name. If the publishing point does not already exist on the server, it is created automatically, depending on if you have the correct access permissions to the Windows Media server. To use properties that are already set in another publishing point, you can type the name of the existing publishing point in Copy settings from (optional). Click Autoremove to remove the publishing point from the server after you quit the encoder or after a timeout of several minutes occurs. (The timeout enables you to stop and then restart encoding without having to create the publishing point. This is useful, for example, if you want to adjust settings in the session and then continue encoding.)
- Pull from the encoder. Select if you want a Windows Media server or player to initiate the connection to the encoder by using the HTTP protocol. By default, port 8080 is used. The encoder supports up to five direct connections. The Connections tab of the Monitor panel lists the URLs clients can use to connect to the encoder.
- Encode to a file. Select if you plan to distribute the content at a later time or you want to archive a copy of a broadcast. You can limit the size or duration of the file. The limit is applied to the output file, rather than the source file. If limiting the file size, type the desired size followed by a K (kilobytes), M (megabytes), or G (gigabytes). If limiting the file duration, enter the duration of the output file in hours, minutes, and seconds. By default, the file is indexed at each key frame, which enables users to play content at a specific point by using the seek feature in a player. You can change when the encoder warns you that disk space is low; the default is one megabyte. In Warn on low disk space, type a number followed by K, M, or G for kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.
Note
- If you limit the duration of your output file and also use the time compression feature in the session, then your output file might contain more or less content than you expected. For example, if you chose to limit the output file to 30 minutes and then chose to accelerate the playback of the file by a factor of 2, the output file will last 30 minutes but contain 60 minutes of content.
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