addStorage

Adds a new storage location.

This function has the following parameters:

Example:

API Call:

addStorage mediaFolder=C:\EvoStream\media1 description=TestStorage enableStats=1 externalSeekGenerator=1 keyframeSeek=1 metaFolder=C:\EvoStream\media1 name=TestNameStorage seekGranularity=300000

JSON Response:

{
"data":{
    "clientSideBuffer":15,
    "description":"TestStorage",
    "enableStats":true,
    "externalSeekGenerator":true,
    "keyframeSeek":true,
    "maxPlaylistFileSize":4096,
    "mediaFolder":"C:\\EvoStream\\media1\\",
    "metaFolder":"C:\\EvoStream\\media1\\",
    "name":"TestNameStorage",
    "seek Granularity":300000
},
"description":"Storage created",
"status":"SUCCESS"

The JSON response contains the following details:

• data – The data to parse
  • clientSideBuffer – How much data should be maintained on the client side when a file is played from this storage
  • description – Description given to this storage. Used to better identify the storage
  • enableStats – If true, *.stats files are going to be generated once the media files are used
  • externalSeekGenerator – If true, *.seek and *.meta files are going to be generated by another external tool
  • keyframeSeek – If true, the seek/meta files are going to be generated having only keyframe seek points
  • maxPlaylistFileSize - ??
  • mediaFolder – The path to the media folder
  • metaFolder – Path to the folder which is going to contain all the seek/meta files. If missing, the seek/meta files are going to be generated inside the media folder
  • name – Name given to this storage. Used to better identify the storage
  • seekGranularity – Sets the granularity for the seek files in milliseconds
• description – Describes the result of parsing/executing the command
• status – SUCCESS if the command was parsed and executed successfully, FAIL if not