Media Management and Analysis Platform (MMAP)

The Media Management and Analysis Platform (MMAP) is a media analytics platform designed for viewing, searching, and analyzing video footage from a variety of sources, typically CCTV surveillance camera footage and broadcast footage from IP streams.

MMAP offers source management features, where you can organize cameras or TV channels in folders and sub-folders. You can record and view video footage from any supported source at a later point.

Clients use a rich set of REST APIs to access and modify source, recorder, and video stream information. You can then view live and archive video streams from a web browser, with advanced playback capabilities such as fast forward, fast rewind, live pause, and fast seeking.

MMAP combines these video stream viewing capabilities with the video analytics capabilities of IDOL Video, where you can create events based on object detection and scene analysis. You can retrieve these events by using the REST API, and you can view the associated video footage in a web browser.

You can analyze video that contains audio (for example, broadcast footage), and extract audio transcripts. You can then use the Optical Character Recognition (OCR), face recognition, and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) features of IDOL Video to further enhance the information extracted from the footage.

The purpose of the Media Management and Analysis Platform is to provide a standard interface for these tasks.

IDOL Media Server

IDOL Media Server can ingest video from files and IP streams. Many devices (such as IP cameras, network encoders, and IPTV devices) can produce IP streams. Media Server can also request video from third-party video management systems, such as Milestone XProtect. Media Server provides automatic processing that reduces the operator's workload and can help them respond to suspicious events.

Media Server can run many types of analysis, including:

Media Server can encode the video that it ingests, so that operators can review suspicious events at a later time and video is available to prosecute offenders. Media Server can output the metadata that it extracts to many formats and systems, including:

For more information about IDOL Media Server, refer to the Media Server Administration Guide.

The MMAP REST API

The Media Management and Analysis Platform includes a REST API that can be used to:

Micro Focus Media Player

MMAP includes the Micro Focus Media Player component that allows for live and archive video of the managed sources in the system.

The Media Player consists of a browser plugin for Google Chrome that allows for playback of video within the browser, as well as AngularJS directives which you can use to embed the player (with custom drawn playback controls) into a HTML5 page.

The AngularJS directives use the Media Element internally, which is a JavaScript wrapper that mimics the HTML 5 MediaElement API. This means that to use the Media Player, you can write normal HTML 5 <video> elements, and depending on the MIME type of the source, it will display the correct player.

The Media Player supports the following types of content:

Media Player Supported Browsers

The Micro Focus Media Player is supported on the following browsers:


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