Diskover User Guide Companion
for Media Solutions

This guide is intended for the daily operations of Diskover's core features.

Introduction

This guide serves as a companion to the Diskover User Guide, covering the core features. This guide focuses on plugins and optimizations specific to media environments, helping you maximize efficiency and streamline data management.

Document Conventions

TOOL	PURPOSE
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🔆	Indicates a tip
✏️	Indicates a note
⚠️	Indicates a warning
🍿	Indicates that a video is available on the subject
Features Categorization	IMPORTANT Diskover features and plans were repackaged as of January 2025. Please refer to Diskover's solutions page for more details. You can also consult our detailed list of features. Contact us to discuss your use cases, size your environment, and determine which plan is best suited for your needs. Throughout this guide, you'll find labels indicating the plan(s) to which some feature belongs.
Core Features
Industry Add-Ons	These labels will only appear when a feature is exclusive to a specific industry.

Media Specific Challenges and Solutions

This section describes the prominent challenges that most Media and Entertainment facilities are currently facing.

Lack of Files Visibility

The lack of visibility and access to files' location and metadata is a real problem for end-users in media facilities, mostly due to the protected production network, as security is paramount because of piracy concerns and possible leaks to the public prior to release dates.

CHALLENGES	SOLUTIONS
There is a difficult to non-existing balance between allowing people to do their jobs while keeping the appropriate level of security around clients’ files.	Diskover gives read-only access to the files’ metadata and attributes, therefore, safeguarding your valuable assets while allowing employees to efficiently find the files they need.
Difficulty finding disorganized assets from different sources (ex: intra and inter companies systems).	Diskover scans all fragmented data living across heterogenous repositories and brings all the information in one global index.
Users need to be notified when files are available and where they are located.	Diskover offers extraordinary speed and reliability with Elasticsearch in the backend continuously indexing all storage volumes in parallel for instant findability.
Too many search results due to the inability to refine searches.	Diskover includes many search tools and filters, as well as granular searches on media-specific attributes (ex: resolution, codec, duration, etc.)
Unable to verify if the file found/needed is the right one.	Diskover's media info plugin enriches the ability to locate the correct file. Future thumbnail/preview plugin functionality will further increase accuracy.

Inefficient Workflows

Tremendous person-hours wasted due to a lack of continuity and automation around file-based production lines.

CHALLENGES	SOLUTIONS
Need to track orders through the production process, from order creation to invoicing and delivery.	Diskover order management and scheduling plugins reduce or eliminate manual correlations and provide automation and scaling capabilities. One example of such is the Xytech Order Status Plugin.
The order system is usually not an integral part of the storage infrastructure, affecting the ability to charge accurately for storage per specific project.	The cost analysis tool within Diskover provides the ability to associate a storage element to the cost of goods sold to a project, client, work order, etc.
The inability to identify files that need to be managed at the source.	Diskover’s manual tagging and automated scheduled tasks insure safe and methodical file management, as well as file findability.

Fast Pace Environments

Significant increase in order volume compounded with shorter deadlines.

CHALLENGES	SOLUTIONS
Manual orders are prone to errors and don’t scale with today’s high volume.	Diskover’s global view and accuracy combined with order management and scheduling plugins allow for reduced human-prone errors associated with manual processes, as well as increased automation and scalability of production processes associated with file-based workflows.

Media Info

The Media Info plugin enriches the index with additional metadata, such as media-specific attributes (e.g., file resolution, codec, pixel format, etc.). These attributes are seamlessly integrated, making them searchable, reportable, and actionable. If a source file lacks media attributes, those fields simply won’t be harvested or available for use within Diskover.

Media attributes, like file resolution, codec, pixel format, etc., are harvested during indexing and are therefore available to enhance in-depth searches and deliver accurate results. In addition to the manual search syntax explained in the Diskover User Guide, the additional fields indexed by the Media Info plugin allow end-users to search on media-specific attributes.

Hide/Unhide Media Info Column in Search Results Pane

When using the file search page, you have access to a column with all the media attributes. If you cannot see that column, it means that it is hidden. To unhide that column, go to ⛭ → Hide fields in search results → unclick the box in front of media_info.

The media_info column will then be available within the search results pane. If the column is visible but there are no attributes for a file, this means that there was no media metadata associated with the source file to begin with.

View Detailed Media Attributes

Below is an example of the location where you can see detailed media attributes. You can access this page by clicking on a file in the search results pane or wherever you see the magnifying glass icon:

Search Syntax

• Searching on media_info fields is case insensitive.
• The following syntax needs to be respected when searching on media info fields media_info.key:value:
  • media_info is not a variable.
  • key is a variable like resolution, codec, pixel format, etc.
  • value is a variable as per the examples below.

Searchable Fields and Examples

Below is a list of the most used and indexed media info attributes.

✏️ As media fields’ info can be complex, unless you know exactly what you are looking for, we strongly recommend using the * wildcard for ease of searching and to expand your results.

ATTRIBUTE	SEARCH SYNTAX	🔎 SEARCH EXAMPLE → POSSIBLE RESULT
File resolution	media_info.resolution:	media_info.resolution:3840x2160 → files with 3840x2160 resolution. media_info.resolution:*1080* → files with 1080 as part of the resolution, either width or height.
Codec	media_info.codec:	media_info.codec:prores → files prores tokenized in the codec field. media_info.codec:*h264* → files with h264 tokenized or not
Codec long	media_info.codeclong:	media_info.codeclong:*apple*→ files with apple tokenized or not media_info.codeclong:*quicktime* → files with quicktime tokenized or not
Codec tag	media_info.codectag:	media_info.codectag:*avc1* → files with avc1 tokenized or not
Pixel format	media_info.pixfmt:	media_info.pixfmt:*yuv* → files with yuv tokenized or not media_info.pixfmt:*422* → files with 422 tokenized or not
Frames	media_info.frames:	media_info.frames:30 → files with an exact number of 30 frames media_info.frames:29.* → files with 29 frames and any number of decimals like 29.97
Duration	media_info.duration:	media_info.duration:*30.* → files with a duration that includes exactly 30 seconds, with any number of hours, minutes and/or milliseconds, example 0:00:30.071708 ✏️ Note: Time format is H:MM:SS.MS
Frame rate	media_info.framerate:	media_info.framerate:*23.* → files with a standard framerate of 23.976 or 23.98
Bitrate	media_info.bitrate:	media_info.bitrate:*765* → Bitrate is a difficult field to search, but not impossible!
Error	media_info.error:	See section below for more details
Warning	media_info.warning:	See section below for more details

Media Info Fields Containing Error or Warning

If the media fields at the source are corrupted and/or Diskover determines the file as "suspect", the media info fields will show either error or warning within Diskover. Below are search queries to either exclude or pinpoint files with those values:

USE CASE	QUERY EXAMPLE
To search all files with valid media info fields while excluding files with error and warning	media_info:* NOT (media_info.error:* OR media_info.warning:*)
To search all files with media info fields containing error and warning	media_info.error:* OR media_info.warning:*

Search on Media Info Fields with Operators

Operators and, not, or are explained in the Diskover User Guide. Here are a few query examples using media info fields with operators. Note that operators are not case sensitive, but they are being typed in capital letters below for visual purposes.

OPERATOR	🔎 SEARCH EXAMPLE	✅ POSSIBLE RESULTS
AND	media_info.resolution:1920x1080 and media_info.codeclong:*quicktime*	All files with resolution 1920x1080 AND QuickTime in codeclong
NOT	*jurassic* NOT media_info.resolution:1920x1080 | All files/paths containingjurassic`, tokenized or not, but NOT with a resolution of 1920x1080
OR	*jurassic* (media_info.pixfmt:*444* OR media_info.pixfmt:*422*)	All files/paths containing jurassic, tokenized or not, with pixel format 444 OR 422
MIX'EM	(media_info.resolution:*1080* or media_info.resolution:*1920*) AND extension:mov NOT extension:mp4	all files with 1080 or 1920 being part of the resolution, with file extension .mov, but would exclude file extension .mp4 from the results

Find File Sequences

Diskover lets you easily find all files in a sequence via File Action.

How to Launch Find File Sequences

REFERENCE	DESCRIPTION
A	You can launch from the inline File Action gears icon without having to select the file first.
B	You can launch from the File Action gears icon above the results pane but you'll have to select the line item first.

How to Read File Sequence Results

The results will open in a new browser tab:

REFERENCE	DESCRIPTION
A	How to read the file sequence results: DPX → constant digits at the beginning of the sequence. %08d → sequence contains 8 digits starting with zeros/padding. [86400-86619] → sequence detected, more brackets would show if broken sequences would be detected.
B	Path where the file sequences can be found.
C	Number of sequences found.

CineViewer Player

🍿 Watch Demo Video | CineViewer Player Plugin

CineViewer is a video playback and management system designed for video and broadcast professionals. It is designed to securely view high-resolution media from a remote browser, without giving users access to the source files. The player can be launched in one click from the user interface, allowing for seamless validation of media assets, therefore increasing productivity, while safeguarding your production network.

The following sections will guide you through the features and functions of CineViewer, helping you utilize this tool effectively for your video and broadcast needs.

Click here to learn more about the CineViewer Player developed and sold exclusively by CineSys.io

Login Credentials

The first time you launch the CineViewer, you might be prompted to enter the login credentials you received from your system administrator:

How to Launch the CineViewer Player

You can access the CineViewer by 🅰 selecting a file in the results pane and 🅱 clicking File Action → open in CineViewer:

You can also click the File Action/gear icon → open in CineViewer located in the results pane to preview a media file:

Either method will launch the CineViewer Player where you'll be able to validate/preview media files.

REFERENCE	DESCRIPTION
A	Play/pause, start/stop playback, can also be activated with the space key.
B	Timecode, can be clicked to open the timecode editor, you can change the timecode numbers and hit Enter or Goto to go to that frame.
C	Frame slider, click and drag to navigate the timeline.
D	Jump forward by 15 seconds increment.
E	Jump backward by 15 seconds increment.
F	Audio panel toggle to open the audio controls, will show levels for up to 16 channels. Clicking on the S button will solo channels while muting others. Clicking on the M button will mute that channel. There is also a main mute and volume slider at the top of this audio panel. Alternatively, the keyboard can be used for main volume control via the up and down arrows.
G	Closed captions panel toggle to open the controls. CineViewer supports multiple closed caption languages from SRT files. CineViewer will look for a .srt with the same base name as well as in a Subs directory.
H	Zoom panel toggle to open the zoom and pan controls, CineViewer supports zoom and pan on content for better inspection of frames. Zoom can also be controlled through the keyboard shortcuts as described in the next section.
I	Fullscreen mode, either press the same button or ESC to close fullscreen mode.
J	Menu to open extra interfaces for plugins and core features: About provides info about the currently installed version: Open returns the system to the file browser mode: Help offers direct access to the latest documentation, keyboard shortcuts, and info about contacting support for the product: Metadata to see the attributes of the current media file: Diskover to do a quick search of Diskover without leaving the CineViewer application:

Keyboard Shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts can be found in the Help menu of the CineViewer app.

KEY	COMMAND
a	zoom fit
c	zoom center
1 to 9	zoom X
=	zoom in
-	zoom out
m	audio mute toggle
↑	audio volume up
↓	audio volume down
←	previous frame
→	next frame
space bar	play/pause
p	play/pause

Conclusion

We hope you will find CineViewer to be easy to use and of great benefit at your facility. Please be sure to let us know what you think and also any ideas you may have to improve the product by contacting the CineSys and Diskover team.

Xytech Plugins

This chapter describes features enhancing file-based production workflows when using the Xytech Media Operations Platform. Extra metadata is harvested to give additional business context allowing for efficient data flow management, including searches, analytics, and data curation.

Click here to learn more about the Xytech Media Operations Platform.

Xytech Asset Creation Plugin Overview

🍿 Watch Demo Video | Xytech Asset Creation Plugin

Post facilities often have customers’ assets that have been archived and lack findability, visibility, searchability, and therefore the opaque nature of these assets makes them difficult to reuse or repurpose. Companies, with years of such archived assets, have often stored these on tape media or removable hard drives which are often stored in a physical vault.

Assets were often stored on such “offline” media due to costs, however, with the advent of cloud and object storage, the economics are now making it viable to store such vaulted assets on more “online media”. Although, simply putting these assets onto online media does not necessarily make these assets findable in context or within the facility’s order management system.

The Xytech asset creation tool is designed to find and index newly restored online assets from LTO tapes, removable hard drives, etc., making them available, findable, and searchable within the Xytech order management system, as well as Diskover.

The plugin operates on the assumption that the assets restored to online media are placed into a folder with the following naming convention: CustomerID_CustomerName

The path location is added to the asset within Xytech and the asset number is assigned to the file via a tag within the Diskover Index.

Media Asset Interface Within Xytech Application

Xytech Media Asset Attributes Within Diskover

The following are examples of media asset attributes within Diskover, allowing correlation with the Xytech application, therefore, enabling that data to be searched, analyzed, as well as engaged in workflows.

How to Search for Xytech Media Assets

Search Overview

The asset id is part of the metadata harvested by Diskover. If a file at the source doesn’t have an asset ID attached to it, it goes without saying that no details will be harvested and/or be available within Diskover.

In addition to the manual search syntax explained in the Diskover User Guide, users can search on Xytech asset ID numbers.

Search Syntax

• The following syntax needs to be respected xytech.asset_id:value:

  • xytech.asset_id: is not a variable.
  • value is a variable as per the examples below.

• Searching on xytech fields is case insensitive.

• Your search query needs to be typed or pasted into the Diskover search bar.

Search Examples

🔎 QUERY EXAMPLES	✅ POSSIBLE RESULTS
xytech.asset_id:*	All files/directories with any asset ID attached to them
xytech.asset_id:1495193	All files/directories with the specific asset ID number 1495193
xytech.asset_id:1234*	All files/directories with an asset ID number starting with 1234

Xytech Order Status Plugin Overview

🍿 Watch Demo Video | Xytech Order Status Plugin

The Xytech order status plugin is designed to automate the correlation of the order management system and the storage system, by harvesting key business context from Xytech and applying that context within Diskover. In turn, this business context metadata can be used to curate data, automate workflows, monitor costs, create customized reports, etc.

Facilities often manually correlate the order management system with the storage repositories. However, manual processes are subject to human errors and difficult to scale as the volume of media orders and data turnover increases constantly.

Therefore, the lack of integration for file-based workflows between the order management system and the underlying storage repositories, makes data management decisions difficult as they are solely based on attributes of files or objects on storage. Additional business context is needed from the order management system to increase the precision and accuracy of data management decisions.

An instance of key information might be the invoice date for a work order. A status change for a work order can be a key indicator for data management, for example, once a Xytech media order has been “invoiced”, then the data associated with that media order can be a candidate for archival.

Order Status User Interface Within Xytech Application

Xytech Order Status Attributes Within Diskover

The plugin finds all of the Xytech Media Order folders on the storage volume(s), then pulls additional status and attributes/metadata and adds them as "properties" of that folder.

The following are examples of order status attributes within Diskover, allowing correlation with the Xytech application, therefore, enabling that data to be searched, analyzed, as well as engaged in workflows. Please note that the fields harvested from Xytech are configurable.

A Xytech column can be added in the Diskover search page, giving a summary of the attributes.

Order Status Analytics Within Diskover

Business context metadata allows for granular and powerful analytics with information relevant to your business. Once the Xytech attributes are indexed by Diskover, they can be used in various reporting tools.

Below are examples of analytics using Diskover's Reports feature.

Top Results by Manager

Top Results by Order Status

How to Search for Xytech Order Status

Search Overview

The order status fields are part of the metadata harvested by Diskover. If a file at the source doesn’t have an asset ID attached to it, it goes without saying that no details will be harvested and/or be available within Diskover.

In addition to the manual search syntax explained in the Diskover User Guide, users can search on multiple Xytech order status attributes.

Search Syntax

• The following syntax needs to be respected xytech.key:value:

  • xytech is not a variable.
  • key is a variable like phase, account manager, etc.
  • value is a variable as per the examples below.

• Searching on xytech fields is case insensitive.

• Your search query needs to be typed or pasted in the Diskover search bar.

Search Examples

🔎 QUERY EXAMPLES	✅ POSSIBLE RESULTS
xytech.phase:Invoiced	would find all files/directories with an Invoiced status, note that case sensitivity needs to be respected for the value and needs to start with a capital letter
xytech.customer_id:9999	would find all files/directories with customer ID 9999
xytech.account_manager:*Smith*	would find all files/directories with Smith being part of the account manager's name, note that case sensitivity needs to be respected for the value and needs to start with a capital letter unless all lower cases were used in the Xytech application
xytech.begin_date:*2022-10-02*	would find all files/directories with an order status beginning date of October 2, 2022
xytech.due_date:*2023-04-19*	would find all files/directories with an order status due date of April 10, 2023
xytech.invoice_date:*2023-05*	would search for all files/directories with an invoice date in the month of May 2023
xytech.invoice_id:233890	would find all files/directories with invoice number 233890

Flow Production Tracking Plugin

The Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) Plugin is designed to enhance basic metadata with detailed production status information, aligning data management with production schedules. The Diskover Flow Production Tracking Plugin harvests additional attributes from the Autodesk ShotGrid platform for every shot directory located on storage. These attributes become properties of the shot directories and include status information such as finaled, out-of-picture, multiple project tracking dates, and many more, totaling around one hundred indexable fields. Note that users can opt to only index the fields that are relevant to their business.

These searchable business context attributes enable very precise data management decision-making via granular reporting, and can easily be engaged in workflows and file actions. A representative workflow might be to archive all shots directories 30 days after their status has been updated to finaled.

For each shot directory within Diskover, the Flow Production Tracking attributes basically become a property of that directory. All fields/metadata harvested become searchable, reportable, and actionable within Diskover.

Click here to learn more about the Autodesk Flow Production Tracking Platform.

Flow Production Tracking Attributes in the Diskover User Interface

✏️ Important | Diskover Software Still Using ShotGrid

Please note that Autodesk recently changed its product name from ShotGrid to Flow Production Tracking." Although our literature now refers to Flow Production Tracking, ShotGrid will still be used in Diskover's user interface and backend post-index harvesting until further notice.

Search page showing a dedicated column with a summary of the Flow Production Tracking attributes.

Detailed Flow Production Tracking indexed fields can be found in the Diskover attributes window.

Flow Production Tracking Status Analytics Within Diskover

Business context metadata allows for granular and powerful analytics with information relevant to your business. Once the Flow Production Tracking attributes are indexed by Diskover, they can be used in various reporting tools.

Below are examples of analytics using Diskover's Reports feature.

Top Results by Status Code

Amount of data by status code:

Top Results by Sequence

Amount of data by sequence:

Top Results by Creator

Amount of data by creator:

How to Search for Flow Production Tracking Attributes

The Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) fields are part of the metadata harvested by Diskover. If a file at the source doesn’t have any of those attributes attached to it, it goes without saying that no details will be harvested and/or be available within Diskover.

In addition to the manual search syntax explained in the Diskover User Guide, users can search on multiple Flow Production Tracking attributes.

Search Syntax

Important | Diskover Software Still Using ShotGrid

Please note that Autodesk recently changed its product name from ShotGrid to Flow Production Tracking." Although our literature now refers to Flow Production Tracking, ShotGrid will still be used in Diskover's user interface and backend post-index harvesting until further notice.

• The following syntax needs to be respected shotgrid.key:value:

  • shotgrid is not a variable.
  • key is a variable like dates, sequence, creator, etc.
  • value is a variable as per the examples below.

• Searching on shotgrid fields is case insensitive.

• Your search query needs to be typed or pasted into the Diskover search bar.

• For all information on manual search queries.

Searchable Fields and Examples

The Autodesk Flow Production Tracking platform has around one hundred indexable fields. Users can opt to index all or just the ones relevant to their business.

List of All Indexable and Searchable Fields

🔎 SEARCH SYNTAX	🔎 SEARCH SYNTAX	🔎 SEARCH SYNTAX
shotgrid.addressings_cc	shotgrid.sg_cut_in	shotgrid.smart_cut_summary_display
shotgrid.assets	shotgrid.sg_cut_order	shotgrid.smart_duration_summary_display
shotgrid.cached_display_name	shotgrid.sg_cut_out	shotgrid.smart_head_duration
shotgrid.code	shotgrid.sg_dialogue	shotgrid.smart_head_in
shotgrid.created_at	shotgrid.sg_dialogue_change_	shotgrid.smart_head_out
shotgrid.created_by	shotgrid.sg_dialogue_notes	shotgrid.smart_tail_duration
shotgrid.cut_duration	shotgrid.sg_dialogue_type	shotgrid.smart_tail_in
shotgrid.cut_in	shotgrid.sg_dialoguelucks	shotgrid.smart_tail_out
shotgrid.cut_out	shotgrid.sg_head_in	shotgrid.smart_working_duration
shotgrid.description	shotgrid.sg_most_recent_cutitem	shotgrid.step_0
shotgrid.filmstrip_image	shotgrid.sg_published_files	shotgrid.step_106
shotgrid.head_duration	shotgrid.sg_sequence	shotgrid.step_136
shotgrid.head_in	shotgrid.sg_shot_dialogue	shotgrid.step_178
shotgrid.head_out	shotgrid.sg_shot_dialogue_status	shotgrid.step_179
shotgrid.id	shotgrid.sg_shot_type	shotgrid.step_180
shotgrid.image	shotgrid.sg_shots	shotgrid.step_185
shotgrid.image_blur_hash	shotgrid.sg_shots_1	shotgrid.step_186
shotgrid.image_source_entity	shotgrid.sg_status_list	shotgrid.step_222
shotgrid.launches	shotgrid.sg_sync_metadata	shotgrid.step_255
shotgrid.notes	shotgrid.sg_tail_out	shotgrid.step_35
shotgrid.open_notes	shotgrid.sg_tasks	shotgrid.step_552
shotgrid.open_notes_count	shotgrid.sg_transition_from	shotgrid.step_6
shotgrid.parent_shots	shotgrid.sg_transition_from_offset	shotgrid.step_7
shotgrid.project	shotgrid.sg_transition_to	shotgrid.step_8
shotgrid.reel	shotgrid.sg_transition_to_offset	shotgrid.tags
shotgrid.sg_board_notes	shotgrid.sg_vendor_groups	shotgrid.tail_duration
shotgrid.sg_camera_notes	shotgrid.sg_versions	shotgrid.tail_in
shotgrid.sg_character_notes	shotgrid.sg_versions_query	shotgrid.tail_out
shotgrid.sg_characters	shotgrid.sg_working_duration	shotgrid.task_template
shotgrid.sg_color_keys	shotgrid.shots	shotgrid.tasks
shotgrid.sg_comments	shotgrid.smart_cut_duration	shotgrid.updated_at
shotgrid.sg_cut_duration	shotgrid.smart_cut_in	shotgrid.updated_by
shotgrid.sg_cut_duration_timecode	shotgrid.smart_cut_out

Search Examples

🔎 QUERY EXAMPLES	✅ POSSIBLE RESULTS
shotgrid.sequence:3336	All files/directories with sequence number 3336
shotgrid.date_updated:*2023-03-22*	All files/directories with an updated status date of March 22, 2023
shotgrid.shot_code:*li0304*	All shot code files/directories with full or partial number li0304

Telestream GLIM and Vantage Plugins

The GLIM and Vantage web tools are seamless integrations allowing end-users to securely view/validate source files, as well as submit files for transcoding, directly from Diskover, in one click from the Diskover web browser and without ever accessing the source assets themselves.

Click here to learn more about Telestream products.

GLIM | Preview/Validate Media Files

🍿 Watch Demo Video | Telestream GLIM

You can do an advanced search/validation of a media file and playback right from Diskover.

✏️ Make sure you are logged in to your Telestream account before using this feature.

You can access the GLIM by 🅰 selecting a file in the results pane and 🅱 clicking File Action → open in Glim:

You can also click the File Action/gear icon → open in Glim located in the results pane to preview a media file:

Either method will launch GLIM where you'll be able to validate/preview media files.

Click here to learn more about the Telestream GLIM product.

Vantage | Submit Transcoding Jobs Directly from Diskover

🍿 Watch Demo Video | Telestream Vantage

The Diskover Telestream Vantage Plugin allows end-users to submit files for transcoding directly from the Diskover user interface. This process can be utilized by all end-users without needing access to the production tools and source files.

The major benefits:

• The plugin eliminates many steps from going back and forth between the two software.
• Vantage offers several transcoding options which can be confusing to non-technical users > the plugin allows for limiting the number of options to only the ones relevant to the end users.
• Creating a Vantage account for an end-user is intensive as it requires complex and time-consuming configurations > single end-user accounts for Vantage are not required with the plugin as all they need is access to Diskover.
• End-users with a Vantage account also means that they have access to your production network > the plugin keeps your network secure as the end-users only have access to read-only information via Diskover.
• Files are very easy to find within Diskover’s global index compared to Vantage where one needs to know where to look.
• The learning curve is quick and easy for new end-users.

How to Submit a File for Transcoding

• 1 → Search for the desired file(s) within Diskover as you would normally do.
• 2 → You can launch transcoding jobs by first selecting a single file or multiple files in the results pane and then selecting File Action → submit to Vantage:

• 3 → You can also launch Vantage in the results pane for a single transcoding job by selecting File Action → submit to Vantage:

• 4 → A window will open with a series of submission options - after clicking the Submit button, you will get a message that the file has been submitted to Vantage successfully.

• 5 → If you have access to the jobs submission status view in Vantage (webpage location to be supplied by your system administrator), you will see the progress status of your request(s).

Click here to learn more about the Telestream Vantage product.

IMF Package Validator

🍿 Watch Demo Video | IMF Package Validator

The IMF package validator plugin allows organizations to validate IMF packages before delivery from a remote platform, saving immense amounts of man-hours over the course of a business year.

Oxagile’s IMF Package Validator plugin allows users to scan and validate IMF packages before delivery from any location, regardless of the location of the IMF package data.

IMF stands for Interoperable Master Format, which is a technical standard used in the Media and Entertainment industry for the exchange of digital content between different platforms and systems. The IMF format is used by content creators, distributors, and broadcasters to deliver high-quality video content to a variety of devices, including TVs, mobile devices, and web browsers.

Netflix, for example, requires all their content to be delivered in IMF format, which undergoes rigorous validation to ensure compliance with industry standards. The validation process involves extensive testing of the content's video, audio, and metadata to ensure that it meets the technical specifications and can be delivered to viewers in the highest quality possible.

Once the content has been validated, it is then encoded into various formats, including 4K and HDR, and made available for streaming on various platforms. The IMF validation process is a critical step in the content delivery pipeline.

The IMF Package Validator plugin is developed by Oxagile. For more information or to purchase the IMF Package Validator plugin, please contact Oxagile.

Functional Limitations

The following are the limitations of the current plugin version:

1. Verification capabilities are limited to those of the latest version of the Netflix Photon tool.
2. Validation by schedule is not supported.
3. Cloud storage is not supported.
4. Archives are not supported.
5. DCP packages are not supported.

How to Launch the IMF Package Validator Plugin

First, locate the package(s) you want to validate by searching using the built-in tools, searching using manual queries, or drilling down the file tree.

There are 3 ways to launch the validate IMF package file action:

✏️ Note that this action is only available for directory items and will not work if you're trying to launch using a file.

If you want to validate a single package, use the file action button in line with that package in the results pane.

If you want to validate multiple packages at once, use this global file action button located above the results pane.

You can first validate the attributes of a single package by clicking this icon in line with the package in the search page, then use the file action button located in the attributes page.

After launching the validate IMF package file action, a new tab will open displaying the packages being validated, as well as the version of the plugin. The process should take about 5 seconds per package. In this example, only one package is being validated:

Validation Results Via Tags

Return to the search page and refresh the tab. The results of the validation are shown as tags.

Green tag → imf valid = validation successful for all items inside the package

Red tag → imf not valid = validation failed for some or all items inside the package

Reports Following Validation

This new report icon will be available for the validated directories in the results pane, as well as in the attributes window.

Successful Validation

Here is an example of a successful validation report upon clicking the icon.

• The report is displayed in a new tab.
• At the top you can see the global validation status for the package, as well as the status per file.
• All items inside a package need to successfully pass validation for the package to be valid.

Failed Validation

Here is an example of a failed validation report upon clicking the icon.

• The report is displayed in a new tab.
• At the top you can see the global validation status for the package, as well as the status per file.
• The error(s) encountered during the validation process are listed in red under each failed item.
• A package will be identified as not valid if one or more items inside that package failed the validation process.

Validation Report in XML Format

It is possible to export the validation report in XML format using the button in the IMF reports window.

You can find the XML file in your Downloads folder. Here is an example when opening the file with a web browser:

Reports Using Tags

There are several ways to report on tags. To quickly report on successful (green tag) or failed (red tag) validation, please follow the instructions using Quick Search.

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