The main screen of MCC is mainly divided into two parts; the left side shows the Ingests connected to MCC. The ingest frame on the left side of the main screen informs the user about its version and the computer name that the Ingest runs. When the user activates this frame, All the properties of the related ingest appear on the right side of the main MCC screen.
On the figure above, three Ingests are added to this MCC, but only the Ingest with version 2.6.2.1 running on the computer (ingestxp) is connected to the MCC and also is activated by the user. On the right side of the main screen you can also see all the actions indicators related to this Ingest workstation/server.
The user can check the status of the Ingest, the system performance of the computer that the Ingest runs (CPU, RAM, disc drives), the status of the encoder and its profile(s). You can control the status of the scheduler, if the recording mode of the Ingest is set to scheduler. You can also monitor the Log and the Alarms from the left side of the main MCC window.
The figure shown below is the main window of Metus Control Center before the Metus Ingest is added.
To connect any Metus Ingest to Control Center, the user clicks Add Ingest from the Project submenu sub-menu as seen on the figure below. To detect the Ingest from MCC, the user should type the computer name that the Ingests runs, to Add Ingest window.
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On the figure shown below, the ingest is added to MCC, but has not been started yet.
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Metus Ingest Status and General System Performance Frame
When you click the Run button, the Metus Ingest is automatically started, as seen on the figure shown above. The state of Ingest: changes from Not Running to Running. The state of Connection: also changes from Disconnected to Connected.
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By clicking Open Screen Watcher button, the user can get this screenshot on the different window as seen on the figure shown above. The user can adjust image size, get the screenshots at the certain time intervals and retrieve instant screenshot at any time by using controls at the top bar.
Encoders & Profiles Frame
As if the user changes the recording modes and starts/stops the encoders on the Ingest application, he can do all the actions on the MCC main window by activating the related encoder. On the figure shown above, Encoder 1 with the four profiles (DV PAL, H264 HD mp4 PAL, MPEG-2 PAL and VCD PAL) .
Recording Modes
There are three different recording modes depending on the recording style. You need to define the recording mode according to your recording requirements. Recording modes can be changed from a toolbar dropdown button as seen on the figure shown above. Recording modes are:
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Remove selected encoder; whenever the user clicks to this button, a warning message will appear on the screen. The selected encoder (Encoder1) and its profiles will be removed by clicking to “Yes” button on the warning.
Scheduler Frame
Scheduled recording tasks can be created with Metus Control Center. The scheduled task will record the desired encoder in desired format itself even you are not in front of the Computer. To schedule a task; Select the Scheduler mode from the drop down list on the Encoders window. Click Add button in the Scheduler window.
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Enable / Disable the Scheduler.
Log and Alarms Frame
There are two tabs, Log and Alarms, on the lowest side of the MCC window.
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