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Archiving content

When running the New Session Wizard, you have the option to archive a live event to a file for later use. You can archive the file to the computer running the encoder or to your Windows Media server. Archiving to the Windows Media server is the best solution when:

If you choose to archive the broadcast, all the sources you used in the broadcast are archived automatically, but archiving all sources is not always desirable. For example, let’s say that one of the sources in your broadcast is an advertisement. To save disk space or to speed up the playback of the archived broadcast, you can archive only the live portion of the broadcast by turning off archiving when the ad is playing. This requires that you either set the archiving option individually for each source in your broadcast in the Session Properties dialog box or turn archiving on and off manually from the Control panel in the main encoder window.

Archiving is only available in conjunction with broadcasting.

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