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Assess the sources

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Assess the sources - MediaLive

When planning a multiple-input MediaLive channel, you must identify all the sources that you need. You must then assess the audio and captions in each source to ensure that the source is suitable for an input-switching scenario.

Result of this Step

After this step, you have a set of sources that you can successfully set up as inputs and attach to the channel in order to implement input switching in the channel. You have categorized these sources by their type: live sources or file sources.

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