Configuring Harmonic Polaris Play: Ingest

Occasionally you may either loose configuration information, or will want to set up PP:I using a different user. Below is configuration information that is necessary to have Polaris Play: Ingest working. From the main menu select Tools | Configuration.

General Settings:

Media Director IP (Control)

Control IP Address: 192.168.1.156

Samba IP Address: 192.168.1.156

Files System Folders

Root Folder: \fs0\clip.dir

Default Folder: \fs0\clip.dir

Timecode Display

Display time as: Timecode

Dropframe: x

Ingest Options

Suffix Separator: $

Clip Name Patterns $P_$D-ST

Default record duration: 01:00:00;00

GPI Device

None

PPIConfig

Router Integration

[ x ] Polaris Live:Route Integration192

Polaris Live:Route IP Address 192.168.1.155  TCP/IP Port 81

Monitor Switching

[  ] Rm 207 (if you wish for the monitor to switch whenever you select a specific Media Port. NOTE: This has caused some sort of memory loss and eventually crashes, so I have not used it as of 6/2/16).

PPI-RouterIntegration

BXF Integration

[X] BXF Integration

Incoming Port: 14544

BXF Ingester: MP4-SD

[ ] BXF Media Updates (this shouldn’t be selected, we don’t have this module).

PPI-BXFIntegration

Player MP4-SD

Role

(x) Scheduled Ingest

Name: (blank)

Channel Logo

Router setup

Router Input: Mp 4-SD       Router Output: MP4 SD

Default folder for ingest

Capture to folder: \fs0\clip.dir

Append date [ ]

Timecode/Time-of-day

Time-of-day source: Media Director Time

[ ] Segment Clips (not being used – leave un-selected)

PPI-MP4

Player MP5-SD

Role

(x) Scheduled Ingest

Name: (blank)

Channel Logo

Router setup

Router Input: Mp 5-A-SD       Router Output: MP5

Default folder for ingest

Capture to folder: \fs0\clip.dir

Append date [ ]

Timecode/Time-of-day

Time-of-day source: Media Director Time

[ ] Segment Clips (not being used – leave un-selected)

PPI-MP5

All other players should have the setting – Role: None