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AWS Elemental MediaLive

User Guide

AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide

AWS Elemental MediaLive: User Guide

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AWS Elemental MediaLive User Guide

Table of Contents

What Is AWS Elemental MediaLive? ...................................................................................................... 1 How MediaLive Works ................................................................................................................. 1 Pipelines ........................................................................................................................... 2 MediaLive Inputs ................................................................................................................ 2 MediaLive Channels ............................................................................................................ 2 MediaLive Schedule ............................................................................................................ 3 Terminology .............................................................................................................................. 4 Related Services ......................................................................................................................... 5 Accessing AWS Elemental MediaLive ............................................................................................. 6

Pricing .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Quotas .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Feature rules and limits ...................................................................................................................... 9

Limits for inputs ........................................................................................................................ 9 Limits for outputs .................................................................................................................... 10 Limits for other features ........................................................................................................... 11

Limits for other features ................................................................................................... 13 Setting up: IAM permissions .............................................................................................................. 14

Signing up ............................................................................................................................... 14 Creating an administrator IAM user ............................................................................................ 14 Creating a non-administrator IAM user ........................................................................................ 16

Step 1: Create customer managed policies .......................................................................... 17 Step 2: Create an IAM group ............................................................................................. 18 Step 3: Create or add an IAM user to your group .................................................................. 19 Setting up as a trusted service ................................................................................................... 20 Setting up: IAM permissions for production ......................................................................................... 21 Setting up administrators and users ........................................................................................... 22 Creating an administrator user with limited access ....................................................................... 22 Creating a non-administrator user .............................................................................................. 25 Step 1: Requirements for permissions ................................................................................. 26 Step 2: Identify categories of users .................................................................................... 40 Step 3: Create the Custom Policies ..................................................................................... 40 Step 4: Create the groups ................................................................................................. 41 Step 5: Create users ......................................................................................................... 42 Step 6: Setting up required data ........................................................................................ 44 Setting up AWS Elemental MediaLive as a trusted service .............................................................. 44 How the trusted entity is created and attached .................................................................... 44 Creating trusted entity roles .............................................................................................. 45 Setting up permissions for non-administrator users .............................................................. 48 Reference: summary of user access ............................................................................................. 50 Reference: summary of trusted entity access ................................................................................ 56 Setting up: IAM permissions for distributors ........................................................................................ 60 Creating an administrator IAM user ............................................................................................ 60 Creating a non-administrator user .............................................................................................. 61 Getting started with AWS Elemental MediaLive .................................................................................... 63 Getting started tutorial ............................................................................................................. 63 Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 64 Step 1: Set up the upstream system ................................................................................... 64 Step 2: Set up the downstream system ............................................................................... 64 Step 3: Create an input ..................................................................................................... 65 Step 4: Set up key information .......................................................................................... 66 Step 5: Attach the input ................................................................................................... 66 Step 6: Set up input video, audio, captions .......................................................................... 66 Step 7: Create an HLS output group ................................................................................... 67 Step 8: Set up the output and encodes ............................................................................... 67

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Step 9: Create your channel .............................................................................................. 68 Step 10: Start the upstream system and the channel ............................................................ 68 Step 11: Clean up ............................................................................................................ 68 Components of AWS Elemental MediaLive ........................................................................................... 70 Inputs ..................................................................................................................................... 70 Channels ................................................................................................................................. 70 Encodes .......................................................................................................................... 70 Outputs ........................................................................................................................... 71 Output groups ................................................................................................................. 71 Input security groups ................................................................................................................ 71 How components are associated ................................................................................................ 71 Setup: Preparing upstream and downstream ........................................................................................ 72 Step 1: Identify output group types ............................................................................................ 73 Choosing among the AWS media services ............................................................................ 74 HLS versus MediaPackage .................................................................................................. 74 Options for Microsoft Smooth ........................................................................................... 75 Step 2: Identify encode requirements ......................................................................................... 75 Step 3: Identify resiliency requirements ....................................................................................... 76 Pipeline redundancy ......................................................................................................... 76 Automatic input failover ................................................................................................... 77 Comparison of the two features ......................................................................................... 77 Step 4: Assess the upstream system ........................................................................................... 78 Assess source formats and packaging ................................................................................. 78 Encrypted HLS content ..................................................................................................... 79 Assess video content ........................................................................................................ 80 Assess audio content ........................................................................................................ 81 Assess captions ................................................................................................................ 82 Result of this step ............................................................................................................ 83 Step 5: Collect information about the source content ................................................................... 83 CDI source ....................................................................................................................... 84 AWS Elemental Link source ............................................................................................... 84 HLS source ...................................................................................................................... 85 MediaConnect source ........................................................................................................ 85 MP4 source ...................................................................................................................... 86 RTMP source .................................................................................................................... 86 RTP source ...................................................................................................................... 86 Step 6: Coordinate with upstream system and create inputs .......................................................... 87 CDI source ....................................................................................................................... 88 AWS Elemental Link source ............................................................................................... 90 HLS pull source ................................................................................................................ 91 MediaConnect push source ................................................................................................ 94 MP4 pull source ............................................................................................................... 96 RTMP pull source ............................................................................................................. 98 RTMP push Input ............................................................................................................. 99 RTMP VPC source ........................................................................................................... 102 RTP push source ............................................................................................................. 104 RTP VPC source .............................................................................................................. 107 Step 7: Coordinate with downstream systems ............................................................................ 111 Archive or frame capture ................................................................................................. 112 HLS to Amazon S3 ......................................................................................................... 113 HLS to MediaStore ......................................................................................................... 114 HLS to MediaPackage ..................................................................................................... 115 HLS to HTTP .................................................................................................................. 116 MediaPackage ................................................................................................................ 117 Microsoft Smooth ........................................................................................................... 118 RTMP ............................................................................................................................ 119 UDP .............................................................................................................................. 119

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Next steps ............................................................................................................................. 120 Setup: Planning the channel ............................................................................................................ 121

Step 1: Identify the output encodes .......................................................................................... 121 Identify video ................................................................................................................. 121 Identify audio ................................................................................................................ 122 Identify captions ............................................................................................................ 123 Summary of encode rules for output groups ...................................................................... 124 Example of a plan .......................................................................................................... 124

Step 2: Map outputs to sources ................................................................................................ 125 Example of mapping ....................................................................................................... 129

Step 3: Design the output groups ............................................................................................. 131 Archive output group ...................................................................................................... 131 Frame Capture output group ........................................................................................... 132 HLS or MediaPackage output group .................................................................................. 132 Microsoft Smooth output group ....................................................................................... 133 RTMP output group ........................................................................................................ 134 UDP output group .......................................................................................................... 134 Examples ....................................................................................................................... 135

Step 4: Design the encodes ..................................................................................................... 136 Plan the encodes ............................................................................................................ 136 Identify encode sharing opportunities ............................................................................... 139

Next steps ............................................................................................................................. 142 Resources: MediaLive channels ......................................................................................................... 144

Creating a channel from scratch ............................................................................................... 144 Getting ready ................................................................................................................. 145 Step 1: Complete channel details ..................................................................................... 146 Step 2: Attach inputs ...................................................................................................... 148 Step 3: Complete input settings ....................................................................................... 152 Step 4: Complete general settings .................................................................................... 157 Step 5: Create output groups ........................................................................................... 158 Step 6: Set up video ....................................................................................................... 204 Step 7: Set up audio ....................................................................................................... 206 Step 8: Set up captions ................................................................................................... 208 Step 9: Save channel ...................................................................................................... 210

Creating a channel from a template or by cloning ...................................................................... 210 About templates ............................................................................................................. 211 About cloning ................................................................................................................ 211 Creating a channel from a template .................................................................................. 212 Creating a channel by cloning .......................................................................................... 212 Creating a custom template ............................................................................................. 212

Editing and deleting a channel ................................................................................................. 213 Editing a channel ........................................................................................................... 213 Editing the tags associated with a channel ......................................................................... 213 Deleting a channel .......................................................................................................... 213

Updating channel class ........................................................................................................... 214 Viewing a channel configuration ............................................................................................... 214 Resources: MediaLive devices ........................................................................................................... 215 Creating a device .................................................................................................................... 215 Editing or viewing a device ...................................................................................................... 215 Transferring a device ............................................................................................................... 216

Initiating a device transfer ............................................................................................... 217 Cancelling an outgoing device transfer .............................................................................. 217 Accepting a device transfer .............................................................................................. 217 Viewing device status .............................................................................................................. 218 Deleting a device .................................................................................................................... 218 Resources: MediaLive input .............................................................................................................. 219 Categories for inputs .............................................................................................................. 219

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