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Welcome
Welcome to Adaptive Media Delivery
Before you begin
Delivery concepts and terms
Review supported media formats
Get your unique information
Understand the request flow
Prepare your environment
Configuration
Create a new AMD property
Define property hostnames
Define property variables (optional)
Define property configuration settings
Default optimizations
Origin Server
Content Provider Code
Segmented Media Delivery Mode
Origin Characteristics
Content Characteristics
Client Characteristics
Cache Key Query Parameters
Tiered Distribution
Recommended behaviors in the Default Rule
Optional behaviors in the Default Rule
The Default CORS Policy Rule
Add optional rules
Finalize your AMD property
Test your AMD property
Go live with AMD
Optional features
AMD origin failover
Set up your primary origin
Configure the recovery methods
Set up your recovery policy
Known issues with AMD origin failover
Auth Token 2.0 Verification
Bit Rate Limiting
Breadcrumbs
Client Hints
Cloud Access Manager
Cloud Wrapper
Common Media Client Data
Content Targeting Protection
The Content-Type header
Early Data (0-RTT)
Edge IP Binding
EdgeWorkers
Enhanced Debug
Enhanced Proxy Detection
HTTP to HTTPS Upgrade
Low Latency Streaming support
DASH and a Media Services Live origin
HLS and a third-party origin
Manifest Personalization for DASH
Manifest Personalization for HLS
Media Encryption
Set up ME for DASH
Set up ME for HLS
Set up ME for both
Mixed Mode
Existing properties and MMC
Live & on-demand: Different Property Hostnames
Live & on-demand: One property hostname, different URL paths
Separate origins using different auth methods
Optimize via different Content Characteristics
Optimize via different Client Characteristics
Known limitations with MMC
Origin IP access control list
Prefetching
Origin-assist prefetch
Protect connections with mTLS
Protocol Downgrade
No personally identifiable information (PII)
Protocol Downgrade for Enhanced TLS
Protocol Downgrade for Standard TLS
Migrate from Enhanced TLS to Standard TLS
Quick Retry
Caveats and known issues with Quick Retry
SureRoute
Token Authentication
Enable Token Authentication
Generate and apply a token
Caveats and known issues with Token Auth
Token-based Access Revocation
Watermarking
Watermarking-supported media formats
Set up a watermarking vendor
Source content "preprocessing"
The watermarking token (WMT)
Set up watermarking in your AMD property
Set up your player for watermarking
Set up for non-watermarked content
Watermarking with Access Revocation
Key considerations with watermarking
Mapping Solution – Media Delivery Type
Method 1: One to one
Method 2: One to many
Edit edge hostnames to use Media Delivery Type
Mismatch issues and Media delivery type
The Vary HTTP header
Developer tools
AMD APIs
Resources
View reports for AMD
AMD service-level agreement
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