Video Asset Management

MPP is able to ingest and store any file format. MPP recommend limiting the formats and standardizing as much as possible to ensure costs and incompatibility issues are minimised. For instance, MPP would recommend choosing a playback format which is compatible with the highest possible number of web browsers, such as Flash Video (flv). It would be possible to store content in any number of formats and MPP is able to auto-detect from the browser which format of video is compatible and which isn’t, and to serve the correct file format automatically to the browser. Thought should be given to the number of file formats, the number of videos and the total storage required.

Video assets are indexed to the MPP Management Console, where you add titles, genres, tags and other information to the video.

If DRM (digital rights management) is required, MPP prefer to deliver WMV (windows media video) format for downloads or Flash Video for streams. You can define the DRM rules if required. Fingerprinting of video is a cutting edge form of DRM which is gaining in popularity.

Video fingerprinting is a technique in which software identifies extracts and then compresses characteristic components of a video, enabling that video to be uniquely recognized by its resultant “fingerprint”. Video fingerprinting is a new and emerging technology that has proven itself to be significantly more effective at identifying and comparing digital video data than either of its predecessors, hash value comparisons and digital watermarking.