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Alfresco Media Management

Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Media Management
Release
1.3
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2026-05-06T19:19:13.132000
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There are a number of prerequisite software requirements for Media Management before you start the installation.

You require one of each of the following components.

Requirement Description
Software
  • FFmpeg 2.5.4 from the command line for video transformations. Make sure that your FFmpeg installation has support for H.264 and AAC codecs. If FFmpeg is not available locally, Media Management functionality is reduced.
  • ExifTool 9.76 from the command line for full IPTC metadata extraction.
  • Apache ActiveMQ 5.15 or later.
  • ImageMagick 6.8.6-6 for image manipulation.
Note: If you are using RAW image formats, you must install an ImageMagick delegate, for example, UFRaw, to manipulate the images. See UFRaw for more information. To preview RAW image formats, you need to set additional configuration properties. See step 8.Note: FFmpeg and ExifTool are required to view media in Share. See step 8 for information on how to set these in the alfresco-global.properties file. See Configure ActiveMQ for more information about installing ActiveMQ. See Install ImageMagick for more information about installing ImageMagick.
Alfresco Content Services Content Services 6.1. See Supported Platformsfor more information.
Java requirements OpenJDK 11 or later.
Remote transformation services (optional) AWS Elastic Transcoder. See AWS and Configuring the Elastic Transcoder content transformer for more information.