Configure StreamLive

In implementing video workloads for large-scale events and 24x7, after configuring a StreamPackage, you can configure StreamLive and associate it with the StreamPackage.

Let’s take a look at how to configure StreamLive as follows :

1. Hover the mouse over the Product button at the top of the Tencent Cloud console, search for streamlive, and then go to the StreamLive console.

Create StreamLive Security Group

2. Click the Security Group tab in the left menu.

• Click the Create Security Group button, enter the values as follows, and then click the Confirm button to finish creating the security group.
• Name: str_live_sg_workshop
• IP Allowlist: 0.0.0.0/0 (allow all)

Create StreamLive Input

3. Click the Input tab in the left menu.

• Click the Create Input button, enter the values as follows, and then click the Confirm button to complete the input creation.
• Name: strlive_input_workshop
• Type: RTMP_PUSH
• Security Group: str_live_sg_workshop
• Destination A: app name live / stream name a
• Destination B: app name live / stream name b
• Leave rest to default

3. Create an additional Input for failover.

• Click the Create Input button, enter the values as follows, and then click the Confirm button to complete the input creation.
• Name: strlive_input_workshop_backup
• Type: RTMP_PUSH
• Security Group: str_live_sg_workshop
• Destination A: app name live / stream name c
• Destination B: app name live / stream name d
• Leave rest to default

In Cloud Streaming Service, input failover feature for source failure is supported to provide redunancy over inputs. For the details, see User Guide.

Create StreamLive Channel

5. Click the Channel tab in the left menu and click the Create Channel button.

6. Enter the following values for Channel Name and click the Next button.

• Channel name: str_live_ch_workshop

7. In Input Setting, click the Add button and load the strlive_input_workshop, strlive_input_workshop_backup inputs.

• Click Settings of strlive_input_workshop, and configure the input failover as follows (Config details : trigger input failover to another input when downtime is longer than 3s)
• In addition, Configure input pipeline failover 및 input loss behavior for more availability of inputs and DR of source failure.

In Cloud Streaming Service, multiple-failover features are supported to prevent inturruption of service caused by input exceptions. For more details, please see User Guide

8. In Output Group Setting, press the ADD button, then enter the values as follows and click the Next button.

• Output Group name: strlive_output_workshop
• Output Group type: HLS_STREAMPACKAGE
• Destination Information > StreamPackage Channel ID: ID value copied to notepad in the previous chapter
• Outputs: Here, we will create outputs with a total of two bitrate ladders. Add two outputs** and click the Setting button in the Transcoding Setting menu. Then enter the values below.

  Output Name	960x540	1280x720
  Transcoding	Joint Transcoding	Joint Transcoding
  Audio/Video Name	960x540	1280x720
  Video Transcoding - Vcodec	H264	H264
  Video Transcoding - Width	960	1280
  Video Transcoding - Height	540	720
  Rate Control - Video Bitrate/bps	1200000	2000000
  Top Speed Codec Transcoding	Enable	Enable
  Other configurations	Leave it as Default value	Leave it as Default value

9. Leave the rest as default and click the Done button to finalize the configuration.

10. After configuration is complete, check the created channels. You can see that it has been created in the current IDLE state.

Note: You can start running the StreamLive channel by clicking the START button. Once you start a channel, billing starts even if you don’t actually start streaming. Therefore, if you plan to temporarily suspend or not continue this workshop, we recommend that you maintain the IDLE status or STOP to prevent unnecessary charges.