Magine Pro Glossary

Modified on Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 04:33 PM

When working in the Magine Pro Console you will come across some specific words. Here are our definitions:

Section	Term	Definition
Content
Media	Media	The content assets that are being played. There are four kinds of media: Channels, Broadcasts, Live and VODs.
	Channel	Channels are linear live streams.
	Broadcast	Broadcasts are the individual programs that are being aired on a channel at a certain time.
Channel	Asset ID	Unique ID number that identifies the actual live program.
	Stream ID	Unique ID number that identifies the continuous channel feed. You will get the Stream ID from us.
	EPG	Electronic program guide
	Start over	Possibility to rewind a live program
	Catch up	Possibility to play a program after it was aired
	Live event	Live is as the name implies a live-streamed event. Compared to linear channels, a live media asset is time-limited and will not go on forever. Think about it as a football match, a concert, a speaker event, etc.
	VOD	Files that can be played at any time.
	Metadata asset	The file containing all information about a media file e.g. production year, cast, director, PG age rating, availability.
	Source ID	Unique ID number of the metadata file
	Kind	Defines the type of the metadata asset that can be used to define how it can be used and what kind of data you can add to it etc. Available “Kinds”: Movie, Show, Episode, Program, Clip.
	Movie	The Kind of the metadata asset is “Movie”. On a Movie, you can add e.g. Cast, Director, Genres etc.
	Show	The Kind of the metadata asset is “Show”. I.e a TV Serie. Information about the entire series can be added to the Show, and all episodes of the same series needs to be linked to it.
	Episode	The Kind of the metadata asset is “Episode”. An individual episode of a series. Needs to be linked to a Show.
	Program	The Kind of the metadata asset is “Program”. Can be used for assets that don’t fall under the other kinds, e.g. News programs or sports events.
	Clip	The Kind of the metadata asset is “Clip”. Currently not being used in the template service.
	Collection	A set of metadata assets put together based on categories or types e.g. genre
	Display type	Defines how the different platforms should visually render a collection.
	Data type	Defines how collections are populated, e.g. by adding a manual list or by matching labels between the metadata asset and the collection
	Featured	A collection display type that displays the first Metadata asset that is available for the user with a big 16:9 image
	Movies VOD	A collection display type that uses images of type “Poster”.
	Continue watching	A collection that gathers all started assets so that a user can continue where she left off.
	Entitled content	A collection display type to show how long a user will have access to content that they have bought.
	Bookmarks	A collection display that is part of the watchlist feature. If this display type is used and the user has added content to the watchlist, they will also be able to remove the content from it.
	Genre Browse	A display type used when the collection will consist of other collections. E.g. a collection of different genres.
	View	A view will be used as a separate page in the service. The view can either be populated with other collections vertically or by channels in an EPG grid.
	Label	Labels can be added to Metadata assets. These can then be used by e.g. Collections or Packs to select
	Genre	Genres to classify content. All genres of a metadata asset will automatically be added as a label e.g. if the genre “Action” is added, there will be a label “genre_Action”.
	Available content	Refers to linear content. Only broadcasts that have been previously aired and have catch up rights.
Commercial
Advertisement	VAST tag	A third-party ad tag generated by an ad server
	Pre-roll	Advertisement that is played before the asset
	Midroll	Advertisement that is played in the middle of the asset at specified timestamps.
	Interval-roll	Advertisement that is played in the middle of a channel at specified intervals.
	Post-roll	Advertisement that is played after the asset
Offers	Offer	This is your marketing tool where you define the countries, the price, the currency and the type (subscription, rental, etc.) for a package.
	Subscription	A defined period during which a user has access to a package which will renew itself automatically for the same period if not cancelled. Typically monthly or yearly subscriptions are offered.
	Rental	A defined period during which a user has access to an asset. When the period ends the user loses access automatically. Typical for TVOD with e.g. 48 hours access.
	EST (Electronic Sell Through)	A user buys the right to access an asset whenever and how often she likes. The period is defined in the licence agreement.
	Trial	A period where a customer gets access to the content for free to test it
	Third-party offer	An offer that is linked to another offer in a third party system where the billing and entitlement are handled.
Packs	Pack	A bundle of content
Promotions	Campaign	A defined discount for an offer
	Promotion code	The code that needs to be consumed in a user account to receive the discount
User	UserID	A unique ID that identifies a user
	OpenID	A unique method used to login to the service e.g. email
	Locale	Users language setting used in the service if supported
	Tag	Possibility to manually mark a user account.
	Entitlement	The right to access a certain content/package
Payments	Recurring	A transaction that is repeated in specific intervals
	Renewed	The user is given access to certain content for a new period after a successful recurring payment
	Hard cancelled	The access to the content is removed immediately.
	Soft cancelled	The access to the content is removed at the end of the billing period.
Configuration	Device limit	The number of devices a customer can connect to their account and use to watch content
	Offline content	The possibility to download an asset to a mobile device to watch without an internet connection.
	Picture in Picture	A small video window that continues playing an asset while the user browses the content in the service
	Concurrent Sessions	Number of streams or assets that can be started simultaneously with one account
	Geoblocking	Restricting the access to an asset based on the location of a user through white or blacklisting of countries
	Seek steps	The time period for fast-forwarding and rewinding buttons