Creating a transport stream flow that uses an entitled source - AWS Elemental MediaConnect
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Creating a transport stream flow that uses an entitled source

Transport stream flows transport compressed content that is muxed into a single stream. An entitled source is content that comes from another AWS account.

Create a transport stream flow that uses an entitled source (console)

  1. Open the MediaConnect console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/mediaconnect/.

  2. On the Flows page, choose Create flow.

  3. In the Details section, for Name, specify a name for your flow. This name will become part of the ARN for this flow.

    Note

    MediaConnect allows you to create multiple flows with the same name. However, we encourage you to use unique flow names within an AWS Region to help with organization. After you create a flow, you can't change the name.

  4. For Availability Zone, choose an Availability Zone for your flow. Use this option when you are setting up redundant flows. Otherwise, you can leave this as Any. If you leave the default, the service will randomly assign an Availability Zone within the current AWS Region , or if your source comes from a VPC, the service will assign the Availability Zone of the VPC subnet to the flow.

    Note

    If your source comes from your VPC, the Availability Zone of your flow must match that of your VPC subnet. We recommend that you leave this as Any and let the service ensure that the Availability Zone is set correctly.

  5. In the Source section, for Source type choose Entitled source.

  6. For Entitlement ARN, choose the appropriate entitlement. This list includes all entitlements that have been granted to you.

    Tip

    You can click in this field and start entering the entitlement name. MediaConnect will filter the list to include only entitlements with a name that matches what you enter.

  7. Under Source monitoring configuration, choose which monitoring features you want to enable.

    1. Turn on Thumbnails state to generate source thumbnails that you can preview in the console.

    2. Turn on Content quality analysis state to monitor for the following audio and video quality issues.

      1. (Optional) Turn on Black frames to detect periods of black video frames in the stream.

      2. (Optional) Turn on Frozen frames to detect periods of unchanging video frames in the stream.

      3. (Optional) Turn on Silent audio to detect periods of audio silence in the stream.

      4. (Optional) Set a duration threshold between 10 and 60 seconds for each metric that you enable. The default is 30 seconds.

  8. Choose Create flow.

    Note

    The flow doesn't start automatically. You must start the flow manually.

  9. Add outputs to specify where you want MediaConnect to send the content, or grant entitlements to allow users of other AWS accounts to subscribe to your content.

Additional resources

For more information about source monitoring options, see Viewing thumbnails of the source video and Monitoring with content quality analysis in AWS Elemental MediaConnect.