How pause and unpause actions work

You can insert an action to pause and unpause one or both pipelines in the channel. The action pauses the specified pipelines and unpauses any unspecified pipelines:

• Action with one pipeline specified–The action pauses the specified pipeline and unpauses the other pipeline.

• Action with both pipelines specified–The action pauses both pipelines.

• Action with no pipelines specified–The action unpauses both pipelines.

Note

The pipelines that you don't specify are not left in their current state. They are always set to unpaused.

Pause or unpause with fixed start

When you create the action, you include a start time. The start time for the action must be at least 15 seconds in the future but not more than 14 days in the future. After that cutoff, MediaLive rejects the request to create the action.

After you have created the action, the action sits in the schedule. Approximately 15 seconds before the start time, the schedule passes the action to the channel. At the start time, the channel pauses or unpauses the pipelines in the channel.

Pause or unpause with immediate start

When you create the action, you set the start type to immediate.

The schedule immediately passes the action to the channel. The channel immediately pauses or unpauses the pipelines in the channel.