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MOS Protocol - Anyone used it?

Last post was 28 Jul 2008 at 13:35
Tags: .net, web services India
  • 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I've been given the job of developing an extension to an existing newsroom computer system using MOS, but have been coming across some apparent conflicts in the MOS Protocol 2.8.3 standard documentation.
    There doesn't appear to be anywhere to find MOS experts online to answer a few questions, so I am hoping that I might find someone on here who has some experience of developing using MOS.
    If not, then any pointers, to people or resources, although not the MOS website or ENPS, would be appreciated.

    MOS stands for Media Object Server. For a wiki definition go here.

    Cheers

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  • 4 months ago

     Were you able to find any information? I'm in the same boat as you are. I'm looking to push slugs onto using a .net app. Hope to hear soon.

     Thanks

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  • 4 months ago

    [quote user="bravo4ever"]

     Were you able to find any information? I'm in the same boat as you are. I'm looking to push slugs onto using a .net app. Hope to hear soon.

     Thanks

    [/quote]

    Unfortunately, not. The Mos Protocol is designed to help media content management systems connect with an NCS, but doesn't give any practical information regarding the news content and it's expected placement in messages. If Profile 4 is used then the roStorySend can hold all of the news content information, but without Profile 4 it's not clear where to store it. We are having to 'do our own thing' when it comes to retrieving/distributing/storing news story content, although this may be due to the way in which we are implementing our running order software.

    If you're only interested in the slugs then you shouldn't have a problem as every object has a slug, as does every story item within an ro and the ro itself.

    Regards

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  • 4 months ago

    Thanks for your quick response. I'm trying to understand how thing whole thing works. The only document and reference I have for MOS is its website, which has Media Object Server Protocol v3.8.3 Web Services and some similar documents explaining the operations for MOS. Is there any document which explains the workflow. For e.g. How do I get the object IDs the first time.

     Basically, what we have is a website which has stories which people enter, we want to push these to WinPlus (which I believe is a teleprompter software). WinPlus doesn't as such provide any information except that it says, it supports MOS Protocol. I also believe that this software does not support the new MOS Protocol webservices, only supports ActiveX. How this website is going to send information to this information, I'm not clear at this point. If you can point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

     Thanks very much.

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  • 4 months ago

    You don't want the 3.8.3 Web Services version. You want the 2.8.3 (Current) version.

    The standard workflow, in a broadcast environment, is as follows: A newsroom system (NCS) receives news feeds from news agencies i.e. Reuters; The textual content is edited in the NCS; At the same time (and all the time) the NCS is receiving <mosObj> messages which come from media management systems (Mos Object Servers) (this contains the objIDs that you asked about); Relevant objects are added to the textual content in a playlist system (usually part of the NCS) which builds running orders of news stories; When the running order is complete it is published by the NCS and split up and sent to the relevant mos servers in an <roCreate> tag (you need to read the protocol for finer detail) (in a TV production this would probably include teleprompters).

    In your situation I don't know where your media objects are coming from (or even if you use any). If you only want to post the textual content of the stories that people enter on your site to WinPlus, then you are having the same issue that we have, namely, which tag in a Profile 2 mos message do you use to hold the texual content. You may need to approach WinPlus and ask them for the specific answer to that question, in fact, try to get them to send you an example mos message that their system typically sends them (if you manage to get an example then I'd be rather interested in seeing it myself).

    Sorry that I haven't been able to exactly answer your question, but hopefully I've managed to help your understanding of Mos.

    Regards

    Mike

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  • 4 months ago

    For advice on the use of MOS protocol go the mos protocol web site and follow the link on the front page labelled 'web discussion board', create yourself a username and password and put your questions for other developers using MOS there.Note The MOS web discussion board is for questions on the protocol, so the the convention is that vendor specific questions will be pulled offline.

     

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