Obtain information - MediaLive

Obtain information

Obtain the following information from the operator at the upstream system:

  • The URLs on the upstream system for the source file or files.

    There are two URLs for a standard-class input, or one URL for a single-class input. For information about input classes and their uses, see Choosing the channel class and input class.

    See the table later in this section for the URL format and for examples.

    Make a note of the full URLs.

  • The user name and password to access the upstream system, if the upstream system requires authenticated requests. Note that these user credentials relate to user authentication, not to the protocol. User authentication is about whether the upstream system will accept your request. The protocol is about whether the request is sent over a secure connection.

The following tables show the format of the URLs on the different types of upstream systems that MediaLive supports for MP4 input.

Upstream server is an HTTP or HTTPS server

Format of URL <protocol>//:<hostname>/<filename>.mp4
Example https://203.0.113.13/filler-videos/oceanwaves.mp4

https://198.51.100.54/filler-videos/oceanwaves.mp4

Upstream server is AWS Elemental MediaStore

Format of URL mediastoressl://<data endpoint for container>/<path>/<filename>.mp4
Example

Assume that the data endpoint for the container for one of the content sources is the following:

f31z.data.mediastore.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Assume that the file is called oceanwaves.mp4, and it is stored in the container, in the path filler-video.

The URL for one of the source files would be:

mediastoressl://f31z.data.mediastore.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/filler-video/oceanwaves.mp4

Upstream server is Amazon S3

Upstream server Format of URL
Format of URL s3ssl://<bucket>/<path>/<filename>.mp4
Example

s3ssl://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/filler-videos/main/oceanwaves.mp4

s3ssl://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/filler-videos/redundant/oceanwaves.mp4

With MediaLive, the S3 bucket name must not use dot notation, which means it mustn't use . (dot) between the words in a name.