Starting, stopping, and pausing an AWS Elemental MediaLive channel
After you create a channel, you can start it. The channel never starts automatically except when it is already running and attempts to recover from a failure.
You can stop a running channel at any time.
You can also pause one or both the pipelines in a channel by adding a Pause action to the schedule for the channel. For more information, see How pause and unpause actions work.
For information about charges for a channel, see Pricing. There are different charges depending on the state of the channel:
Charges when the channel is running
Charges when the channel is idle
To start a channel
Open the MediaLive console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/medialive/
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In the navigation pane, choose Channels, and then on the Channels page, choose the channel that you want to start.
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Before you start the channel, decide if you want to enable thumbnails for the channel. You won't be able to enable thumbnails after the channel starts.
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Choose Start. The channel state changes to one of the following:
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Starting
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Running (encoding on the pipeline or pipelines)
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Choose the channel name. The details for the channel appear. After a few seconds, the thumbnail preview of the current input appears (if thumbnail preview is enabled).
To stop a channel
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Open the MediaLive console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/medialive/
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In the navigation pane, choose Channels, and then on the Channels page, choose the channel that you want to stop.
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Choose Stop.
The thumbnail preview (if thumbnails preview is enabled in the channel) stops updating. After a few seconds, the current thumbnail is replaced by a message.
