Can I Start or Stop Recording a Livestream at Any Time?

On-demand recording is supported. You can start or stop recording a livestream as needed in one of the following ways:

• Performing operations on the console and calling an API
  1. Log in to the Live console.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose Domains.
  3. Click Manage in the Operation column of the desired ingest domain name.
  4. In the navigation pane, choose Templates > Recording (New).
  5. Click Create Recording Template and set the recording type to Manual. Configure the recording template.
  6. Call the API for submitting a recording command to start or stop recording a livestream.
• Calling an API
  1. Set the recording type parameter record_type to COMMAND_RECORD by calling the API for creating a recording template.
  2. Configure the parameter action to start or stop recording a livestream by calling the API for submitting a recording command.