Tutorials

For your convenience and reference we provide the following tutorials. They will help you setting up the system and use its offered functionalities.

Broadcasting 24/7

Read how to set up USP for Live 24/7 broadcasting. (Tutorial).

Monitor FFmpeg Live Encoding

Read how to use Monit to automatically (re-)start your (24/7) encoder session. (Tutorial).

Installing on Fedora / Red Hat

Read how to set up USP on a Fedora / Red Hat machine. (Tutorial).

Securing your content with Nginx

Read how to use Nginx's HttpSecureLinkModule to secure your content. (Tutorial).

Securing your content with Apache

Read how to use Apache's mod_auth_token to secure your content. (Tutorial).

Securing your content with BuyDRM KeyOS Key Management API

Read how to use the BuyDRM KeyOS PlayReady provider to secure your content. (Tutorial).

HTTP Live Streaming and AES encryption

Read how to set up USP to encrypt streams on-the-fly for HLS. (Tutorial).

Securing your content with Flash Access DRM (since version 1.4.35)

Read how to enable on-the-fly encryption of content for HTTP Dynamic Streaming. (Tutorial).

Virtual sub-clips

Read how to simply create sub clips from a longer VOD presentation. (Tutorial).

Subtitles / Captions (since version 1.4.33)

Read how to create and convert the different subtitle formats like SRT, DFXP and ISMT. (Tutorial).

Progressive download for Connected-TV and HTML5 (since version 1.4.35)

Read how to enable play out of progresive downoad. (Tutorial).

Dynamically updating the server manifest location (HTTP Proxy)

Read how to use the IsmProxyPass directive in the Apache webserver module. (Tutorial).

Proxy Support (NFS, S3, Azure) (since version 1.4.33)

Store your video files on any storage server that supports HTTP range requests. (Tutorial).