Enabling blackout - MediaLive

Enabling blackout

Follow this procedure if you want to enable the blackout feature in a MediaLive channel.

To enable blackout

  1. In the channel that you are creating, in the navigation pane, choose General settings.

  2. Set the ad avail mode, if you have not already done so. See Getting ready: Set the SCTE 35 source—segments or manifest. The mode identifies which of all possible events are treated as triggers for blackouts, which determines when video is blacked out.

  3. Still in General settings, in Blackout slate, in State, choose Enabled.

  4. For Blackout slate image, choose the appropriate value:

    • Disable: To use a plain black image for blackout.

    • Avail blanking image: To use a special image for blackout. In the URL field, enter the path to a file in an Amazon S3 bucket. For integration with MediaLive, the bucket name mustn't use dot notation. For example, mycompany-videos is acceptable but mycompany.videos isn't. The file must be of type .bmp or .png. Also enter the user name and Systems Manager password parameter for accessing the S3 bucket. For information about this key, see About the feature for creating password parameters.

  5. If you want to enable network end blackout (in other words, black out content when network transmission has ended and remove blackout only when network transmission resumes), continue reading. If you don't want to enable it, you have now finished setting up.

  6. For Network end blackout, choose Enabled.

  7. For Network end blackout image, choose the appropriate value:

    • Disable: To use a plain black image for blackout.

    • Network end blackout image: To use a special image for network end blackout. In the URL field, enter the path to a file in an Amazon S3 bucket. For integration with MediaLive, the bucket name mustn't use dot notation. For example, mycompany-videos is acceptable but mycompany.videos isn't. The file must be of type .bmp or .png. Also enter the user name and Systems Manager password for accessing the S3 bucket. See About the feature for creating password parameters.

  8. For Additional settings, in Network ID, type the EIDR ID of the network in the format 10.nnnn/xxxx- xxxx- xxxx- xxxx-xxxx-c (case insensitive). Only network end events with this ID will trigger blackout.