Content Management

Introduction

Content Management is the central part in Vimai CMS for managing & publishing contents into OTT Platforms or to other system via MRSS ingestion.

Content Types

Contents on Vimai can be categorized into: VOD Contents & Live Contents.

VOD Contents includes:

VOD Content Type

Movie (Single)

Description

• A single program that only contains one main video content (single-episode).

• A Movie program will include both:

  • Program Information & Metadata

  • Video Info (uploaded video url, transcode status, VOD stream url) of the movie

Children

A Movie content might include additional children contents:

• Trailers

VOD Content Type

Show (TV Series)

Description

• A TV Series program that might include many seasons, with each season including many episodes.

• A Show program will include:

  • Program Information & Metadata

Children

Children contents of a Show Program include:

• Season List of that Show (TV Series)

• Trailers

VOD Content Type

Episode

Description

• A content that represents the episode inside a TV series.

• An episode content will include:

  • Episode Info (title, description)

  • Video Info (uploaded video url, transcode status, VOD stream url) of the episode.

Children

VOD Content Type

Season

Description

• A content that represents the seasons in a TV series.

• Season is a container for the list of episodes inside a season, so the season will only include:

  • Season Info (title, description)

Children

Children contents of Season include:

• Episode List of that season

Live Contents includes:

Live Content Type

Live Channel

Description

• The Live Channel content represent the traditional live streaming channel.

• The Live Channel include:

  • Live Channel info (channel title, description)

  • Live Stream Url

  • Live EPG

Live Content Type

Curated Channel

Description

Deprecated, will be replaced with FAST Channel

Live Content Type

FAST Channel (/w SSAI) (Coming Soon)

Description

• A server-side live channel streaming based on the content schedule managed by content ops, with SSAI support.

• Details of this type of content is available in the FAST Channel (Beta) section.

Live Content Type

Live Event

Description

• A Live Stream content that starts and ends at specific time (fixed start/end schedule)

Content Metadata

Type of content metadata available on CMS:

Metadata

Category

Description

• Category of contents

Metadata

Subcategory

Description

• Content's subcategories

Metadata

Genres

Description

• Content's Genres

Metadata

Content providers

Description

• For managing content provider for revenue share purpose.

Metadata

Production Companies

Description

• Production companies of content

Metadata

People

Description

• Actors / directors / producers / writes/ composers information of the content.

Metadata

Available Country Group

Description

• For managing content-level geo-blocking.

Metadata

Producing Country (Region)

Description

• For managing content's producing country (origin country)

Metadata

TVOD Price

Description

• For managing TVOD payment price for TVOD/PPV contents.

Metadata

License Periods

Description

• For managing content license info metadata & automatic content license expiry handling (unpublishing content after expired)

Guidelines

• Manage Contents

• Manage Series