VBrick WM Appliance Scheduler
The WM Appliance scheduler automatically causes
any number of classroom or conference room sessions equipped with a VBrick WM
Appliance with internal hard drive to record video at a scheduled
date/time.
Requirements
- VBrick WM Appliance with hard drive, with one
or two channels (slots) populated with VBrick WM encoder.
Typical Uses
- Recording classroom sessions
- Recording meetings
- Recording television broadcasts

Setup and Operation
- If your VBrick does not already have a folder
on the hard drive called "public", select "Setup" to
create it (on the VBrick entered in the "Add Item" field).
- Enter date, start time, duration, select the VBrick
channel (slot 1 or 2), set a recording file name, enter the VBrick address,
username and password.
- The recording file name should start with
"/public/" if you wish to use the Video on Demand features.
Otherwise, you may just enter your file name.
- Select "Autoname" to automatically append the
entered file name with "_MM_DD_YY_HHMMSS". This causes each file
name to be unique and avoids having to enter new file names.
- Select "Add Item To Schedule" to add one
item, or enter the number of days and select "Add Multiple Days To
Schedule" to schedule multiple sessions. For example, to record at 9AM
every day for five days.
- Select "Edit", then click on any line item to
change it.
- You may save your schedule, and retrieve saved
schedules.
- Select "Load On Startup" to automatically
load your last saved schedule upon startup.
- Select "Run On Startup" to automatically
start the schedule upon startup (you may put a shortcut in the Windows
startup directory)
- Press "Start Schedule" to run.
- Monitor any live video by selecting
"Monitor". Click on the listed source (which is your
"Location" name).
- View recorded video by selecting "Video On
Demand" and click on a location. Double-click on a video file to
view it. This feature is intended for rapid and easy verification by
the schedule operator, not for general viewer Video On Demand use.
- You can instantly record any item by double-clicking on
it.
Notes
- There schedule software must be running for schedules
to occur. Run it on a Windows computer in minimized mode if desired. There
is very little processing power required and even the cheapest computer will
work.
- Although some conflict verification is conducted, you
should avoid schedule conflicts.
- If you have a dual WM encoder VBrick appliance, the
scheduler can schedule each channel independently. The VBrick is capable of
recording two simultaneous videos, and if each channel is scheduled to start
at the same time, you may record two videos. The two videos will play
back with reasonably good synchronization (using viewers found elsewhere on
this site).
- The scheduler shows status, including
"Pending", the inability to reach a VBrick (is the address
correct? Is the VBrick plugged in?), "Recording Started", and
"Done". Note that once the recording is initiated, the
scheduler does not communicate with the target VBrick again unless or until
it starts a new recording (i.e. there is no real time health check of your
VBrick).
- If live streaming is not conducted, then there is no
concern about bandwidth use and you are more free to use higher encoder
rates and higher resolution video. Of course, this will increase the file
size.
- You may configure your VBrick to "automatically
FTP after record". In this case, each scheduled recording will be
automatically transferred to up to eight servers. For example, you might
transfer the files to a web server or streaming server.
- The system is highly scaleable, and may be used with or
without the VBrick Media Control Server and EtherneTV system.
The scheduling software is free. Limited (email)
support is available from info@videoalive.com