Creating Set-level Manifest Files Using the F4M Configurator Tool

Here is a quickie on how to use Adobe’s F4M configurator tool to create set level manifest files.

The configurator is installed with AMS 5.0 and can be found in the following directory: {AMS_INSTALL}/tools/f4mconfig/configurator/

1. Open the f4mconfig.html file in a browser.
   
2. Enter the path to your server, application and event. For example for an event named “myliveevent” using the “livepkgr” application the Base URL would look like: http://192.168.1.113/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/myliveevent/
3. If you are going to use DVR, enter a value for “DVR Window Duration”. A value of -1 configures the DVR window for all of the available content. A value greater than zero configures the amount of time in seconds available before the live point. We’ll set a 30 minute DVR window, so 1800 seconds.
4. Enter the stream name and bit rate for each bit rate you are encoding. For this example lets say we have a single bit rate of 300 for a stream named “mylivestream”
   
5. Click the “Save Manifest” button. A file will be created and you will prompted to save the file. Save the file and open it.
6. The file should look similar to the following:

   <manifest xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/2.0">
     <baseURL>http://192.168.1.113/hds-live/_definst_/myliveevent/</baseURL>
     <dvrInfo windowDuration="1800"/>
     <media href="mylivestream" bitrate="300"/>
   </manifest>

7. This file can now be used to specify live DVR content. If you add an additional bitrate, you not have a set-level F4M file for multi-bitrate streaming.

Hope this helps and save a bit of time for you.