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1 AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide AWS Elemental MediaLive : User Guide Copyright 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. and/or its a liates. All rights reserved. Amazon's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Amazon's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Amazon. All other trademarks not owned by Amazon are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be a liated with, connected to, or sponsored by Amazon. AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide Table of Contents What Is AWS Elemental MediaLive ? .. 1. Related Services .. 1. Pricing .. 1. Setting Up AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 3. Required Permissions in AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 3. Sign Up for AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 4. Create an IAM User .. 4. Access to Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store.

2 4. Access to Amazon S3 .. 5. Access to AWS Elemental MediaStore .. 5. Setting Up a Trusted Entity .. 6. Setting Up Permissions for AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 6. Step 1: Create a Policy .. 7. Step 2: Create a Role for the Service .. 7. Step 3: Revise the Trust Relationship .. 8. Data Retention .. 9. Deleting Data in AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 9. Getting Started .. 10. Prerequisites .. 10. Step 1: Set up the Upstream System .. 10. Step 2: Set up the Downstream System .. 10. Step 3: Create an Input .. 11. Step 4: Attach the Input .. 12. Step 5: Create an HLS Output Group .. 12. Step 6: Set up the Output and Encodes .. 13. Step 7: Save .. 13. Step 8: Start the Upstream System and the Channel .. 13. Step 9: Clean up .. 14. Components of AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 15. Inputs .. 15. Channels .. 15. Encodes .. 15. Outputs .. 16. Output Groups .. 16. Input Security Groups .. 16. How Components Are Associated.

3 16. Planning Your Work ow for AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 17. Assessing the Video Source .. 17. Setting Up the Upstream System .. 18. RTP Push .. 18. RTMP Push .. 18. RTMP Pull .. 19. HLS Pull .. 19. Planning the Input .. 19. Planning the Channel .. 19. Rules for Encodes in an Output .. 20. Examples of Channel Designs .. 21. Non-ABR Asset with Captions Embedded in the Video .. 21. Non-ABR Segmented Asset with Captions as Separate Objects .. 21. Non-ABR Segmented Asset with Captions as Sidecars .. 22. ABR Asset with Captions Embedded in the Video .. 22. ABR Asset with Captions in Sidecars .. 22. Setting Up the Downstream System .. 23. Working with Input Security Groups .. 25. iii AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide Purpose of an Input Security Group .. 25. Creating an Input Security Group .. 25. Editing an Input Security Group .. 25. Deleting an Input Security Group .. 26. Working with Inputs .. 27. Inputs, Input Security Groups, and Channels.

4 27. Creating an Input .. 27. Creating an RTP Push Input .. 27. Creating an RTMP Push Input .. 28. Creating an RTMP Pull Input .. 28. Creating an HLS Pull Input .. 29. Editing an Input .. 30. Deleting an Input .. 30. Creating a Channel from Scratch .. 32. Step 1: Complete the Channel and Input Details .. 32. IAM Role and Remember ARN .. 33. Channel Input RTP Push Input .. 34. Channel Input RTMP Push Input .. 34. Channel Input RTMP Pull Input .. 34. Channel Input HLS Pull Input .. 35. Input Speci cation Settings .. 35. Step 2: Complete the Input Settings .. 35. Input Settings Network Input Settings .. 36. Input Settings Other Settings .. 36. Input Settings Video Selector .. 36. Input Settings Audio Selectors .. 36. Input Settings Caption Selectors .. 36. Step 3: Complete the General Settings .. 37. Avail Blanking .. 37. Avail Con guration .. 37. Blackout Slate .. 37. Global Con guration .. 37. Global Con guration - Input Loss Behavior.

5 37. Timecode Con guration .. 37. Logging .. 38. Step 4: Create Output Groups .. 38. Creating an Archive Output Group .. 38. Creating an HLS Output Group .. 41. Creating an RTMP Output Group .. 46. Creating a Microsoft Smooth Output Group .. 46. Creating a UDP Output Group .. 48. Step 5: Create Outputs .. 49. Settings for an Archive Output .. 50. Settings for an HLS Output .. 51. Settings for an RTMP Output .. 51. Settings for a Microsoft Smooth Output .. 53. Settings for a UDP Output .. 53. Step 6: Set Up the Video Encode .. 54. Step 7: Set Up the Audio Encodes .. 54. Step 8: Set up the Captions Encodes .. 55. Step 9: Save the Channel .. 55. Creating a Channel from a Template or by Cloning .. 56. About Templates .. 56. Using Built-in Templates .. 56. Using Custom Templates .. 57. About Cloning .. 57. Creating a Channel from a Template .. 57. iv AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide Creating a Channel by Cloning.

6 58. Creating a Custom Template .. 58. Viewing and Monitoring Channels .. 59. Viewing a Channel Con guration .. 59. Monitoring a Channel Using the AWS Elemental MediaLive Console .. 59. Viewing Status Information .. 60. Viewing Alerts .. 60. Handling Alerts .. 60. Monitoring a Channel Using Amazon CloudWatch Events .. 60. Option 1: Send all AWS Elemental MediaLive Events to an Email Address .. 61. Option 2: Send Events for Speci c Channels to an Email Address .. 62. Monitoring Using Amazon CloudWatch Logs .. 63. Enabling Channel Logs .. 63. Working with Logs .. 64. Editing and Deleting a Channel .. 66. Editing a Channel .. 66. Deleting a Channel .. 66. Working with Captions .. 67. Supported Features .. 67. Supported Formats .. 67. Format Support by Output Container .. 67. Supported Captions Categories .. 67. Support for Languages .. 68. Support for Font Styles in Output Captions .. 68. Typical Scenarios.

7 69. Use Case: One Input Format to One Output and Not Converted .. 69. Use Case: One Input Format Converted to One Di erent Format in One Output .. 70. Use Case: One Input Format Converted to Di erent Formats, One Format for Each Output .. 70. Use Case: One Captions Output Shared by Multiple Video Encodes .. 70. Setting Up for Captions .. 71. Step 1: Create Caption Selectors in the Input .. 71. Step 2: Plan Captions for the Outputs .. 75. Step 3: Match Formats to Categories .. 76. Step 4: Create Captions Encodes .. 77. Examples .. 80. Use Case: One Input Format to One Output .. 80. Use Case: One Input Format Converted to One Di erent Output Format .. 81. Use Case: One Input Format Converted to Di erent Formats, One Format for Each Output .. 82. Use Case: One Captions Output Shared by Multiple Video Encodes .. 83. SCTE-35 Message Processing .. 87. About Message Processing .. 87. Supported Features by Input Type.

8 88. Supported Output Features .. 88. Processing Features Default Behavior .. 89. Scope of Processing by Feature .. 89. Supported Features by Output Type .. 90. Getting Ready: Set the Ad Avail Mode .. 93. Enabling Manifest Decoration .. 93. Enabling Decoration HLS .. 94. Enabling Decoration Microsoft Smooth .. 94. How SCTE-35 Events Are Handled in Manifests and Sparse Tracks .. 94. Enabling Ad Avail Blanking .. 96.. 97. The Procedure to Enable Blanking .. 97. Triggers for Ad Avail Blanking .. 97. Ad Avail Blanking Restriction Flags .. 99. Enabling Blackout .. 100. v AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide The Procedure to Black out .. 101. Triggers for Blackout .. 102. Blackout Restriction Flags .. 103. Enabling SCTE-35 Passthrough or Removal .. 104. The Procedure for Archive .. 104. The Procedure for HLS .. 105. The Procedure for UDP .. 105. Sample Manifests - HLS .. 105. Ad Marker: Adobe .. 105. Ad Marker: Elemental .

9 106. Ad Marker: SCTE-35 Enhanced .. 107. Starting and Stopping a Channel .. 108. Starting a Channel .. 108. Stopping a Channel .. 108. Reference: Supported Captions .. 109. How to Read the Supported Captions Information .. 109. General Information on Supported Formats .. 109. Formats Supported in an HLS Output .. 111. Formats Supported in an RTMP Output .. 112. Formats Supported in an MPEG2-TS File Output or MPEG2-UDP Streaming Output .. 113. Formats Supported in a Microsoft Smooth Output .. 114. Reference: Supported Containers and Codecs .. 116. Supported Input Types .. 116. Ways of Ingesting: Push and Pull .. 117. Supported Codecs for Inputs .. 118. Supported Codecs for Outputs .. 118. Supported Codecs for File Outputs .. 118. Supported Codecs for Streaming Outputs .. 118. Reference: Identi ers for Variable Data .. 120. Working with Reservations .. 122. Input and Output Reservations .. 122. Input Reservation Attributes and Matching.

10 122. Output Reservation Attributes and Matching .. 122. How an Input or Output Reservation Is Applied .. 123. Add-on Reservations .. 124. Reservation Attributes .. 124. How an Add-on Reservation Is Applied .. 124. Purchasing a Reservation .. 126. Filtering on the O erings Page .. 126. Viewing Purchased Reservations .. 126. Deleting a Reservation .. 127. Limits .. 128. Document History .. 129. AWS Glossary .. 132. vi AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide Related Services What Is AWS Elemental MediaLive ? AWS Elemental MediaLive is a real-time video service that lets you easily create live outputs for broadcast and streaming delivery. Topics Related Services (p. 1). Pricing (p. 1). Related Services AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users. Use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources users can use in which ways (authorization).