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Adaptive Media Delivery
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Adaptive Media Delivery
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GuideRecipesAPIRelease notes

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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