Live Source Support

We are happy to announce a major release including the following features.

Live Mixing (BETA)

This feature gives the possibility to mix in a true live stream in a Channel Engine powered linear channel (VOD2Live). A beta-version of live-mixing with high availability support is available in the Channel Engine. This allows you to use a new component which can let you break in to a scheduled VOD event or Live stream event at any speficied time on top of the usual vod-to-live content. Note that this feature is also currently in beta which means that it is close to production-ready but has not been run in production yet. We appreciate all efforts to try this out and provide feedback.

High Availability

High availability support is from v3 general available in the Channel Engine and it uses Redis as the shared storage. This allows you to run a replicaset behind a round-robin load balancer as examplified in the drawing above. To enable high-availability initiate the engine with the URL to the Redis cache.

const engineOptions = {
  heartbeat: '/',
  averageSegmentDuration: 2000,
  channelManager: refChannelManager,
  defaultSlateUri: "https://maitv-vod.lab.eyevinn.technology/slate-consuo.mp4/master.m3u8",
  slateRepetitions: 10,
  redisUrl: "redis://127.0.0.1",
};

const engine = new ChannelEngine(refAssetManager, engineOptions);
engine.start();
engine.listen(process.env.port || 8000);

Other features

• Channel playback is now also accessible with the url /channels/:channelId/master.m3u8 in addition to /live/master.m3u8?channel=1