Adobe MEDIA SERVER - Working with Applications

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USING ADOBE MEDIA SERVER ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services
Last updated 9/20/2013
The drawback of a local disk is that you can attach it only to a volume in the same zone. Also, you can attach only one
instance to an EBS volume. You cannot boot Adobe Media Server from an EBS volume.
To create an EBS volume and attach it to a Adobe Media Server instance, do the following:
1 Sign in to your Amazon Web Services account at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2.
The AWS Management Console launches with the EC2 tab open.
2 In the AWS Management Console, in the Navigation pane, locate Elastic Block Store and click Volumes.
3 In the upper right corner of the EBS Volumes pane, click Help.
A Help panel opens with complete instructions for creating, attaching, formatting, and mounting a volume.
Working with applications
Working with pre-built applications
Adobe Media Server installs with four pre-built applications (also called streaming services). The tutorials in the section
“Tutorials: on-demand and live streaming” on page 6 use these applications. The following table describes each
application:
For more information about the pre-built applications, see Streaming services in the Adobe Media Server Developer’s
Guide.
Create an application
To create an new application, create a directory in the /mnt/applications directory. For example, to create an
application called myapplication, create the following directory:
/mnt/applications/myapplication
Working with applications on Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services is no different than with other editions
of Adobe Media Server. For complete documentation, see
Adobe Media Server Developer's Guide.
Application
name
Description
vod This application plays on-demand media files. To configure the storage location for the
media files, see
“Where to store content on an instance” on page 30.
See “On-demand streaming” on page 6.
live This application broadcasts a live stream and doesn’t record it.
See “Live streaming” on page 10.
multicast This application multicasts a live stream and doesn’t record it.
See “Multicast streaming” on page 15.
livepkgr This application broadcasts a live stream over HTTP and doesn’t record it. See “Live HTTP
Dynamic Streaming” on page 13.
To record a stream, see Example: Live HTTP Dynamic Streaming with DVR in Adobe Media
Server Developer’s Guide.