Monitoring with content quality analysis in AWS Elemental MediaConnect
You can use MediaConnect content quality analysis to monitor your source streams and router inputs more effectively. Use this feature to track specific audio and video metrics and ensure that your content meets required quality standards. By monitoring these metrics, you can quickly identify anomalies in your streams and promptly resolve issues to maintain content quality.
Content quality analysis is available for both MediaConnect flows and router inputs. When used alongside other MediaConnect monitoring tools, content quality analysis provides you with a comprehensive view of your stream's quality. With this integrated monitoring approach, you can implement proactive measures and ensure a smooth and reliable media delivery workflow.
Key points
How content quality analysis works
You can monitor for the following content quality issues:
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Silent audio periods - Use this metric to detect periods of audio silence in the stream. This is useful for catching muted microphones in live broadcasts, unintended silence in recordings, or audio encoding issues.
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Black frames - Use this metric to detect periods of black video frames in the stream. This is helpful for identifying issues in live broadcasts, pre-recorded content, or your video encoding process.
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Frozen frames - Use this metric to detect periods of unchanging video frames in the stream. This is valuable for live events, identifying equipment issues, or detecting problems in your content delivery.
For each metric, you can set custom duration thresholds to fine-tune when alerts are triggered based on your specific needs. MediaConnect then monitors the status of the content within your source stream or router input, posting warnings and alerts when issues occur in the areas you've chosen to monitor.
You can enable content quality analysis for MediaConnect flows and router inputs.
Considerations
Note the following when using content quality analysis.
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MediaConnect monitors only the first video track and the first audio track within the stream.
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MediaConnect monitors only the first program within a multi-program transport stream (MPTS).
Flows
The following considerations apply to flows.
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Content quality analysis is limited to flows with 10 outputs or fewer. If a flow exceeds 10 outputs, MediaConnect automatically disables content quality analysis for that flow.
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Content quality analysis is not currently supported for CDI flows and MediaConnect Gateway bridges.
Router inputs
The following considerations apply to router inputs.
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Content quality analysis is automatically disabled when the aggregate bitrate on a router input exceeds 400 Mbps. It is also disabled when more than 10 router outputs are connected to the router.
Next steps
To get started with this feature, see Enabling content quality analysis.
