# How MediaPackage works
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage uses just-in-time format conversion to deliver over-the-top (OTT) video from a single source to a wide variety of playback devices or content delivery networks (CDNs).

In the processing flow for live content, encoders send live HLS streams to MediaPackage. MediaPackage then packages the content, formatting it in response to playback requests from downstream devices. 

The following sections describe the live processing flows.

**Topics**
+ [General AWS Elemental MediaPackage live processing flow](what-is-flow-gen.md)
+ [Live input redundancy AWS Elemental MediaPackage processing flow](what-is-flow-ir.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Elemental MediaPackage V2. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query mediapackage` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).