Overview

Huawei Cloud Media Live ensures stable broadcast-grade streaming for the industry's leading PGC players, around the clock with zero interruptions. Powered by the abundant compute resources of Huawei Cloud AZs worldwide and Huawei's years of audio/video expertise, Media Live helps TV stations and OTT platforms confidently deliver media content to their global audiences with unparalleled clarity and performance.

Enabling the Live console means enabling Media Live. For details, see Quick Start.

Service Architecture

Figure 1 Service architecture

Features

Multi-protocol primary/standby stream input

RTMP, SRT, HLS, and FLV are supported for stream input. Primary/Standby input URLs are provided for each stream to ensure stable and reliable transmission.

High-quality transcoding

H.264/H.265 transcoding with versatile levels of resolution, bitrate, and frame rate is available. Standard transcoding and low-bitrate HD transcoding are supported. Lower bitrate needed for the same image quality improves user experience and reduces content distribution costs.

Real-time packaging of multi-protocol livestreams

Livestreaming, catch-up TV, and time-shifted viewing are supported for HLS, DASH, and MSS output streams. Transcoding templates can be applied in real time to distribute content with adaptive bitrate.

With VOD origin servers, live-to-VOD captures and preserves event highlights for permanent access and multi-channel distribution.

Digital rights management (DRM)

FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady, and Multi-DRM safeguard your high-value media assets.

SSAI and ad tracking (in OBT)

With a scalable service architecture, pre-roll and mid-roll linear server-side ad insertion (SSAI) seamlessly presents ads that target viewer preferences at a low latency.

Stream quality monitoring

Input stream quality monitoring (per minute and by channel) and downstream statistics (traffic, bandwidth, status codes, and concurrency) keep you well-informed of stream quality in real time.

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