Hibernation : archiving and sharing
large media files

What is media hibernation?

Hibernation is a new service to archive media and retrieve them at any time, without transcoding them to make them broadcastable. Media can be “hibernated” individually or in bulk. It is also possible to enrich them with metadata (tags, keywords, etc.) individually or in groups. This allows instant search and retrieval of the selection corresponding to the search or filtering criteria.

Streamlike therefore offers three media hosting states, depending on the need:
– high availability for all “broadcast-ready” media
– archiving, which consists of sending the source file to an archiving server that remains switched off while waiting for a retrieval request. When this happens, the source file is re-encoded and the media returns to a high-availability state.

Hibernation is similar to archiving in that the media file is also deposited on a server that is then shut down to await a recovery request. When it occurs, a secure, temporary download link is generated and sent to the requester. The restored file is not re-encoded and does not become broadcastable.

Hibernated media are managed separately from the other types of media (video, audio and Streamlive) that can be accessed from the “Media” page. They have their own page accessible from the side menu, just above the Statistics.