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Smart Asset Management (SAM) is how Cablecast 7.5 manages your content across your video servers, VOD, NAS/external storage, and Cloud Storage. Any content available to your Cablecast system will be stored on File Stores. This article covers essential information on setting up and using File Stores.

Restarting Cablecast Video Server Engine

Customers updating to 7.1.x with https might experience an issue where players don't update and new players can't be configured. Other symptoms include weather bulletins or web snapshots not loading external images correctly. The update sets an incorrect value for ServerURL in the dbo.Options table; the value is https when it should be http.

Restarting Services for CablecastCG Background Audio Changes Restarting Services for quick reboot of video engine

If you're using one of our free CablecastCG channel templates or maybe even creating your own custom CablecastCG Channel, you might want to upload your own seamless background. This article details how to do so in Cablecast as well as highlighting some design considerations.

Permanently Removing Files From the VOD

So you're ready to dive into using captioning on your system but you've never used captioning before and don't know where to start in testing/troubleshooting potential issues? This KB article will cover some of the most common issues we've seen customers encounter along with some tips for testing captioning before you dive into using Cablecast Captions with your system.

This article goes over the various ways that you can chapter a VOD, both live and with an existing file.

This article summarizes how to setup a Cablecast Live Server.

In Cablecast 7.5, file naming conventions have changed slightly from previous versions of Cablecast.

How to use Mirrored Outputs

Hairpinning or NAT Loopbacks

This document covers configuring and using Cablecast Translation services.