AMWA IS-04 NMOS Discovery and Registration Specification (Stable)
About IS-04
What does it do?
- Allows control and monitoring applications to find the resources on a network
- Resources include Nodes, Devices, Senders, Receivers, Sources, Flows…
Why does it matter?
- Enables automation and reduces manual overhead in setting up networked sytems
- Essential for dynamic deployment
How does it work?
- Media Nodes locate IS-04 registry using DNS-SD (unicast preferred)
- Media Nodes register their resource information with HTTP + JSON
- Applications query with HTTP and/or subscribe with WebSocket
IS-04 has been developed by the Advanced Media Workflow Association as part of the Networked Media Open Specifications initiative. See here for an overview of NMOS specifications.
The NMOS Testing Tool creates a simple web service for testing implementations of all NMOS APIs.
The links to documentation, API and examples below, and for SPEC links in the page menu bar are for this release or branch: releases/v1.3.3. Links to other published releases and other live branches appear later in the page, or in the VERSIONS menu.
Documentation for release v1.3.3
Introduction
APIs
Discovery
Behaviour
Controllers
Data Model
Miscellaneous
APIs for release v1.3.3
JSON Schemas for release v1.3.3
Examples for release v1.3.3
Published Releases
Live Branches
These pages are rendered from the source of the specification, which is in this GitHub repository.
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