How does the start and stop for the same single chime session work ?

Question

By reading this page - https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-chime-media-capture-pipeline-demo, 
I understand that we can start the media pipelines and start the concatenation to get the video. 
How does the start and stop, again start and stop for the same single session work ?

We want to embed the video capture in our online meeting app. There is a possibility that meeting owner in that meeting might pause the video recording for some time or even stop the recording and start again.

We want to capture all the recordings in one video.  How do we enable this using startMediaPipeline and startConcatenation tasks ?

Some insights on this will be super helpful.

Accepted Answer

It depends on what you want the single file to look like.

* If every time that you call CreateMediaCapturePipeline you specify the *same* S3 bucket and folder for the artifacts, then one call to CreateMediaConcatenationPipeline will cause all of the artifacts to be concatenated. This will be a continuous media file and the gaps between the captured segments will not be obvious.
* However, if every time that you call CreateMediaCapturePipeline you specific a *different* S3 bucket and folder, then you will need to call CreateMediaConcatenationPipeline one time for each capture pipeline. This will create a single file for each segment of your meeting that is captured. You could then post-process these into a single file and insert some sort of image or clip where the gaps between the segments are.

Once you decide on the final output that you'd like to have, you can make one of the choices above about your capture pipeline folders.

How does the start and stop for the same single chime session work ?

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