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# Video Management Server

The Micro Focus Video Management Server ingests video and associated metadata. It records the data and makes it available to other applications.

## Ingest Video

VMS can ingest video from sources that stream video using the following protocols:

- Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). Many IP cameras and network encoders provide an RTSP service. If your device supports RTSP output, Micro Focus recommends that you ingest video from this service.
- MPEG-2 Transport Stream over UDP or RTP.
- MJPEG over HTTP. Micro Focus recommends using H264 instead as this provides better compression and requires less network bandwidth.

## Record and Stream Video

VMS can simultaneously write the video it ingests to rolling buffers (storage areas on disk, where the oldest data in the buffer is discarded to make space for new data), and stream both the live input and recorded data to other applications. In response to requests from other applications, VMS can save video from a storage area to a file.

VMS can stream video using Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), both multicast and unicast. VMS is compatible with media players which conform to these protocols, such as the Micro Focus Media Player.

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