Enabling blanking - MediaLive

Enabling blanking

Follow this procedure if you want to enable the ad avail blanking feature in a MediaLive channel.

To enable blanking

  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 blanking, which determines when video is blanked.

  3. Still in General settings, in Avail blanking, in State, choose Enabled.

  4. In Avail blanking image, choose the appropriate value:

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

    • Avail blanking image: To use a special image for blanking. In the URL field, type the path to a file in an 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. See About the feature for creating password parameters.