Adding a second source to an existing MediaConnect flow - AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Adding a second source to an existing MediaConnect flow

For transport stream flows, you can add a second source for failover. Both sources on the flow must use the same protocol. (However, you can have one source that uses RTP and the other that uses RTP-FEC.) For more information about source failover, see Source failover.

The method you use to add a second source to a flow is dependent on the type of source that you want to use:

  • Standard source – Uses content from any source that is not a VPC source or an entitled source.

  • VPC source – Uses content that comes from a VPC that you configure.

MediaConnect doesn't support two sources on the following types of flow:

  • Flows with an entitled source

  • Flows with a CDI source

  • Flows with an NDI® source

For redundancy with ST 2110 JPEG XS sources, you can specify two inbound VPC interfaces on an individual media stream. For redundancy with CDI sources, create a second flow.

From the MediaConnect console, you can view Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the source health of an active flow.