Step 4: Monitoring the feeds back On-premises

To complete this last step, we will require VLC installed in your system. Download and install it from here if you don’t have yet.

  1. Go to the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region MediaConnect Console. Click on the “streaming-flow”. Go to Outputs tab. Add a new output, by clicking on the “Add Output” button. Name it as output-to-ground. Select “SRT Listener” as the Protocol. Set 9000 as the Port number. Select CIDR allow list as 0.0.0.0/0. Then click Add output button.

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Note

Best practice is to only allow CIDRs from the destination site that will consume the feed.

  1. Check the output created, and take note of the Listener address and the Port information.

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  2. Open VLC on your laptop. In the VLC Player go to the top menu bar menu and select File > Open Network… drop-down.

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  3. Type the SRT Listener endpoint address as follows srt://<listener address>:9000.

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  4. Congratulations! You should have audio and video in your VLC Player.

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  5. Now, let’s check the HLS distribution. Go back to the MediaLive Console in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. Click on Workflow wizard, click the workflow “cross-region-emx-to-eml-to-hls-stream-distribution”. From here you can monitor the Direct to Consumer workflow from multiple points.

  6. Click on the link to resource url link within the MediaPackage HLS endpoint section.

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  7. Now you will neeed to copy the CloudFront URL.

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  8. Back in VLC, go to the top menu bar menu and select File > Open Network… drop-down. Then paste the URL of the CloudFront distribution and click the “open” button in VLC.

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  9. Congratulations again! You should see the index.m3u8 manifest playing from us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region.

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