Using MediaLive to livestream files from s3 to Youtube.

Question

Hello, I am very new to using AWS and was unsure if it was possible to take S3 files and use MediaLive to output them to a Youtube channel. After a lot of research online, I saw some people using CloudFront, Elastic Encoder and other AWS services to do this task. However, I was wondering if anybody had any tips or knows how to livestream multiple S3 mp4 files to a service like YouTube. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks so much!

Accepted Answer

Hannah  
  
Can you confirm that you've set the Width and Height for each output in your MediaLive channel configuration? If you have, and still see the issue, then open a ticket using the Support Center or PM me you MediaLive ARN so that we can investigate further.  Please do not ad the ARN in this forum post.

Answer

Hi Zach,  
  
Thank you again for all of your help, I just changed the input specification to all of the Maximum values including UHD. However, I still obtained the same error but thank you for the suggestion!  
  
Hannah

Answer

Hi,  
  
Thank you for asking this questions on the AWS Elemental MediaLive forums, you can stream MP4 files from S3 to Youtube, below are several links to documentation on how to do this:  
  
Streaming from MediaLive to Youtube:  
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/live-streaming-facebook-youtube-aws-elemental-medialive/  
  
Setting Up an MP4 Source:  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/mp4-upstream.html  
  
Input Switching:  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/scheduled-input-switching.html  
  
Zach

Answer

I thought that I responded, but I meant to thank you for all of your help! That ended up working.

Answer

Zach,  
  
Great thank you! I had previously checked out these links and failed to get the stream to work as I keep getting the error "aws medialive Attempted to follow input resolution 3840 x 2160 for video_description \[1]. This exceeds cap of 1920 x 1920.". However, I will continue to try. Thank you for your feedback and help!  
  
Best,  
Hannah  
  
Edited by: hcodo on Apr 19, 2021 7:40 PM  
  
Edited by: hcodo on Apr 19, 2021 7:41 PM

Answer

Hi Hannah,  
  
For your input settings do you have it set for UHD since you are using a 4k input?    
  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/input-specification.html  
  
Zach

Using MediaLive to livestream files from s3 to Youtube.

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