AWS Elemental MediaLive features

MediaLive supports a broad range of video industry standards used to input, output, and archive live video. It includes support for the latest codecs—the compression standards used for video, like h.264/AVC and h.265/HEVC—and media communication protocols—the standards used to send video over the internet, like Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) or Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). You can read about all the standards MediaLive supports in our documentation.

MediaLive uses technology from AWS Elemental that has been proven over many years by leading broadcast and internet video providers. MediaLive supports broadcast features like ad markers, closed captions, multiple language audio tracks, audio descriptors, and FCC-mandated loudness correction. MediaLive also works natively with AWS Elemental MediaConnect, providing secure and reliable transport of video to use as inputs to live channels.

The workflow monitor for AWS media services and Amazon CloudFront discovers, visualizes, and monitors the resources associated with a live video stream, broadcast, or distribution. It displays the relationships between resources in a graphical signal map, so you can see which resources are being used and how they are connected. Create and apply metric alarm and notification templates to monitor your video and alert when issues arise. Learn more in the workflow monitor documentation.

AWS Elemental Media Live Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) lets you process and originate live content and share it with distribution partners for delivery over satellite, cable, or terrestrial networks. Quickly launch broadcast distribution workloads, optimize video quality and available network bandwidth, and meet resiliency goals with built-in high availability.

MediaLive manages the encoding resources needed to deliver high-availability live video streams, so you can focus on your content, not your encoding infrastructure. It automatically deploys encoding resources and manages scaling, healing, resiliency failover, monitoring, and reporting. In a few steps in the MediaLive console, you can launch fully configured live video channels in minutes.

Each live video channel you create with MediaLive runs on redundant infrastructure distributed across physically separated Availability Zones (AZs). The service monitors encoding resources for health and automatically replaces any degraded components without disrupting your channels. Resources elastically scale with demand, assuring a consistent service for your viewers.

MediaLive lets you build flexible 24x7 linear workflows or event-based live streams. The service makes it simple to output a mix of live video streams at different resolutions and bit rates to meet the requirements of the devices in the hands of your viewers.

As an AWS media service, you can choose to use MediaLive as a standalone service or integrate it with AWS services for video transport, video-on-demand (VOD) processing, just-in-time packaging, ad personalization and monetization, or media-optimized storage. A typical integration would be to tie MediaLive to our video transport, packaging and server-side ad insertion services for the core video workflow. Additionally, other AWS services, such as the CloudFront CDN, offer seamless interoperability with AWS Elemental media services.