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This is the “business end” of Metus MAM which the users see and interact with. It is used generally by power users who wish to use all of the functions of Metus MAM, like transcoding, cutting, joining, editing clips in addition to basic functions like importing, browsing, searching. Users with admin rights also configure and administer the system from the Desktop Client. The Desktop Client also includes the Media Asset Viewer, which is a customized player application used to play the assets in normal, fast, slow, reverse speeds, mark points and regions on the assets with metadata, choose and mix between audio channels, mark in and out points. Metus MAM Desktop client is a Windows desktop application and runs on the same local network with Metus MAM server components.
Please see Desktop Client - 34.70.10.0 for more information
Metus MAM Web Client
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Metus Process Server is a software that runs on 64bit version of Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server, or Windows 7 Professional. The number of jobs that MPS can handle in parallel, is defined inside the MAM administration. A large number of jobs can be handled by MPS by putting them in a queue and executing them in order. Progress of MPS jobs are reported in real time to the users via the Desktop Client. Multiple MPS servers can be installed in a Metus MAM project for increasing the total video processing power available. In this case all incoming jobs are distributed by MAM among the MPS servers according to their individual workload, creating load balancing.
Please see Transcode - 34.70.10.0 for more information on transcoding features of Metus MAM.
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MAC Gateway is the server side module which works as an interconnection point between Windows and MacOS. It runs on Windows Server OS.
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Metus Image Matching Server
MIMS is the engine that performs image matching search in Metus MAM. Please see Image Matching - 3.7.1.0 for more information.