Choosing among AWS Elemental destinations
This section provides guidelines about choosing among the different AWS media services as the destination for output from AWS Elemental MediaLive.
Choosing among the AWS media services
If your preferred downstream system is another AWS media service, following are some useful tips for choosing the service to use:
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If you need to choose between AWS Elemental MediaPackage or AWS Elemental MediaStore for HLS outputs, follow these guidelines:
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Decide if you want to protect your content with a digital rights management (DRM) solution. DRM prevents unauthorized people from accessing the content.
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Decide if you want to insert ads in your content.
If you want either or both of these features, you should choose MediaPackage as the origin service because you will need to repackage the output.
If you do not want any of these features, you could choose MediaPackage or AWS Elemental MediaStore. AWS Elemental MediaStore is generally a simpler solution as an origin service, but it lacks the repackaging features of MediaPackage.
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If you have identified AWS Elemental MediaPackage as an origin service, decide if you will produce the HLS output using an HLS output group or a MediaPackage output group. For guidelines on making this choice, see the next section.
Choosing between the HLS output group and MediaPackage output group
If you want to deliver HLS output to AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you must decide if you want to create an HLS output group or a MediaPackage output group.
Delivering to MediaPackage v2
If you are delivering to a MediaPackage channel that uses MediaPackage v2, you must create an HLS output group. The MediaPackage operator can tell you if the channel uses version 2 of the API. One use case for using version 2 is to implement a glass-to-glass low latency workflow that includes both MediaLive and MediaPackage.
Delivering to standard MediaPackage (v1)
There are differences in the setup of each type of output group:
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The MediaPackage output requires less setup. AWS Elemental MediaLive is already set up with most of the information that it needs to package and deliver the output to the AWS Elemental MediaPackage channel that you specify. This easier setup has benefits, but it also has drawbacks because you can't control some configuration. For information about how MediaLive sets up a MediaPackage output group, see Result of this procedure.
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For a MediaPackage output, the MediaLive channel and the AWS Elemental MediaPackage channel must be in the same AWS Region.
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In a MediaPackage output, there are some restrictions on setting up ID3 metadata. For details, see Working with ID3 metadata.
