You can use MediaConnect content quality analysis to monitor your source streams more effectively. This feature enables you to track specific audio and video metrics, helping you ensure that your content meets required quality standards. By monitoring these metrics, you can quickly identify anomalies in your streams, enabling you to promptly resolve issues and maintain content quality.
When used alongside other MediaConnect monitoring tools, content quality analysis provides you with a comprehensive view of your stream's quality. This integrated monitoring approach enables you to implement proactive measures and ensure a smooth and reliable media delivery workflow.
Key points
How content quality analysis works
You can monitor for the following content quality issues:
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Silent audio periods - Use this metric to detect periods of audio silence in the stream. This is useful for catching muted microphones in live broadcasts, unintended silence in recordings, or audio encoding issues.
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Black frames - Use this metric to detect periods of black video frames in the stream. This is helpful for identifying issues in live broadcasts, pre-recorded content, or your video encoding process.
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Frozen frames - Use this metric to detect periods of unchanging video frames in the stream. This is valuable for live events, identifying equipment issues, or detecting problems in your content delivery.
For each metric, you can set custom duration thresholds to fine-tune when alerts are triggered based on your specific needs. MediaConnect then monitors the status of the content within your source stream, posting warnings and alerts when issues occur in the areas you've chosen to monitor.
Considerations
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Content quality analysis works with transport stream source flows only. CDI flows and bridge flows aren't currently supported.
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The content quality analysis feature only monitors the first video stream and the first audio stream it encounters within a single source.
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This feature is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where MediaConnect is available.
Next steps
To get started with this feature, see Enabling content quality analysis and configuring thresholds.
