Concepts and definitions

This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to this solution:

application

A logical group of AWS resources that you want to operate as a unit.

Common Media Application Format (CMAF)

An HTTP-based streaming and packaging standard to improve delivery of media over the internet which is compatible with HLS and DASH and co-developed by Apple and Microsoft.

DRM

Digital Rights Management is a technology used to control and manage access to copyrighted material.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)

An HTTP-based streaming protocol (also known as MPEG-DASH) to deliver media over the internet and developed under Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

An HTTP-based streaming protocol to deliver media over the internet developed by Apple Inc.

QVBR

Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate is a video encoding technology that uses fewer bits in low-complexity periods of content and more bits during high-complexity periods (up to the maximum bitrate) to deliver consistently high video quality.

thumbnails

Files created by taking still images of the original video file.

workflow

Generated state machines that run a number of operations in sequence.