Adding Adaptive Channels

adaptive channels deliver a group of streams (with the same content) that are created to support different types of devices and various network conditions each stream in the group has a different bitrate the adaptive channels support the hls standard the following procedure describes how to add an adaptive channel in zen master in addition, an explanation of each of the configuration parameters is given in the table below to add an adaptive channel in the main navigation, click channels click + add the create new channel selection menu is displayed create new channel selection menu click more options click on adaptive the create adaptive channel window is displayed in the info section, in the name field, enter a logical name for the channel in the tags field, select one or more of the predefined tags from the drop down list tags are used for access control by selecting an tag, you are relating this channel to that tag tags are associated with certain roles (through the users & roles screen), and roles, in turn, are associated with users and user groups if you would like to create a new tag, see creating a tag docid\ ypm9tw81ap6nq8stkv4rd in the events configuration profile field, select from the dropdown list the profile that you would like to apply to this channel by default, the default profile is applied events profiles consist of a series of rules that determine precisely how various types of events are logged and what results they trigger in the configuration section, in the processing cluster field, select from the drop down list one of the channel processing clusters that has been configured in zen master the selected cluster will be used to process this channel if the source does not exist in the cluster, then the cluster will pull the source automatically in the target broadcaster/s field, select your broadcaster preference either select a specific broadcaster to be used or specify your preference for using primary vs backup broadcasters options are prefer primary broadcasters , primary broadcasters only , backup broadcasters only or prefer backup broadcasters for managed clusters, it is not recommended to select a specific broadcaster, as the broadcaster's availability may not remain stable if you want to configure an alternative path for disaster recovery, in the alternative channel (disaster recovery) field, select the channel that will be used as the alternative path for more details, see disaster recovery (alternative path) docid\ poo4zs1 zjra1sndylqe0 if you would like to log hls ad markers for this channel, select the log hls ad markers checkbox in the renditions section add one or more transcoding profiles to the channel and configure the bitrate for each profile this is done as follows find the transcoding profile that you would like to add either by scrolling through the list of available profiles or by entering a search word into the filter text box if the transcoding profile that you would like to add is not yet configured in zen master see adding transcoding profiles docid 3l1dnio6v 15jzcfdhrkn add a transcoding profile by clicking the + button next to the profile click on the bitrate textbox for the profile and enter the expected bitrate default the estimated bitrate based on the transcoding profile note the value should be the sum of the video and audio bitrates plus a small amount to account for streaming overhead by default, a value is assigned based on the transcoding profile for sources in which either the video, audio or both are not transcoded, the user must manually input the value based on the actual bitrates of the source it is important to enter an accurate value since it will be included in the hls/dash manifest if you would like to assign the transcoding process to a multi gpu broadcaster, select the multi gpu checkbox, and then select from the drop down list the desired gpu instance options are 0 (default), 1, 2 and 3 note this feature is useful if you are running several heavy transcoding activities, as it enables you to distribute the load among several different gpus repeat the above procedure for each transcoding profile that you would like to add to the channel note if you would like to remove a transcoding profile from the channel, click on the button next to the source in the sources section, add one or more sources to the channel and designate whether it should be used as a backup source for redundancy find the source that you would like to add either by scrolling through the list of available sources or by entering a search word into the filter textbox if the source that you would like to add is not yet configured in zen master see sources docid\ wrxq4njaqg e7h u3v0de add a source by clicking the + button next to the source click on the bitrate textbox for the source and enter the expected bitrate default the current measured bitrate repeat the above procedure for each source that you would like to add to the channel if you would like to remove a selected source, click on the button next to the source in the initial state section, select the disabled checkbox if you would like to disable this channel upon initial configuration select the muted checkbox if you would like to disable error/recovery notifications for this channel upon initial configuration you can enable/unmute the channel at any time if you would like to customize the hls/cmaf configuration, click advanced (for broadcasters running v12+) the advanced settings are displayed if you would like to enable cmaf (dash + fmp4 hls) , select the checkbox and set the values for the segments and segment duration if you would like to convert the captions format from cea 70 to webvtt , then select convert cea 708 to webvtt under timecode (ext x program date time) source , select your preference for inserting a timecode options are none , system time (default) or sei timecode select the disable renditions synchronization checkbox if you would like to disable synchronization between the sources (supported for broadcasters v14 8+) select the drop unaligned segments checkbox if you want to drop segments of a multi bitrate adaptive group that are not aligned these segments will not be included in the playlist select the segment on scte 35 checkbox if you want to use the scte 35 markers found in the source input to segment the stream and the #ext x cue in/#ext x cue out tags will be added to the manifest select the don't add ext x cue in checkbox to remove the ext x cue in tag, which indicates where to return back to the program, from the playlist in the field scte 35 tag field, select the ad marker tag that will be used to segment the stream ext x cue – cue in and cue out ad markers ext x daterange with ext x daterange ad marker tags, you use scte35 out attributes to specify the timing of the ad avail ext x cue and ext x daterange – zixi will use both ad marker tags to segment ext x cue and ext oatcls scte35 – the ext oatcls scte35 marker tag includes the base 64 encoded scte payload zixi will use both ad marker tags to segment in the field segments between ext x program date time tags field, configure the frequency in which the ext x program date time tags will appear in the manifest by specifying the number of segments between each ext x program date time tag select drop first segment to drop the first segment in the manifest for hls workflows, this can help ensure smoother playback by eliminating non keyframe segments that might cause decoding issues select support multiaudio checkbox if the input stream includes multiple audio channels, choose this option to enable multiple separate audio channels select ascending playlist order to order the master playlist in ascending order by bitrate click save the new channel is created adaptive channel configuration parameters table parameter description info name specify a name for the adaptive channel in zen master tags select one or more of the predefined tags from the drop down list tags are used for access control by selecting an tag, you are relating this channel to that tag tags are associated with certain roles (through the users & roles screen), and roles, in turn, are associated with users and user groups if you would like to create a new tag, see creating a tag docid\ ypm9tw81ap6nq8stkv4rd events configuration profile select from the dropdown list the profile that you would like to apply to this channel by default, the default profile is applied note events profiles consist of a series of rules that determine precisely how various types of events are logged and what results they trigger configuration processing cluster select from the drop down list one of the channel processing clusters that has been configured in zen master the selected cluster will be used to process this channel note if the source does not exist in the cluster, then the cluster will pull the source automatically target broadcaster/s select your broadcaster preference either select a specific broadcaster to be used or specify your preference for using primary vs backup broadcasters, options are prefer primary broadcasters , primary broadcasters only , backup broadcasters only or prefer backup broadcasters note for managed clusters, it is not recommended to select a specific broadcaster, as the broadcaster’s availability may not remain stable alternative channel (disaster recovery) zen master features a disaster recovery feature that enables reverting an entire path after the source (i e , channel) to go through an alternative path, which is usually hosted on an alternative cloud/region the redirection to the alternative path is manual so, in case of a fault, if there is no time to troubleshoot a problem, this mechanism allows the user to select the feed that has an issue, click a button and revert the stream to go through a pre configured alternative path for example, if you have a channel on gcp and a secondary channel and broadcaster on azure if something goes wrong with the gcp path, you can click the go to alternative button and failover everything to azure log hls ad markers if you would like to log the hls ad markers for this channel, select this checkbox renditions in the renditions section add one or more transcoding profiles to the channel and configure the bitrate for each profile source add one or more sources to the channel by clicking the button next to the source and configure the bitrate for each source the default bitrate is the current measured bitrate to remove a source from the channel, click on the button next to the source initial state disabled select this checkbox if you would like to disable this channel upon initial configuration muted select this checkbox if you would like to disable error/recovery notifications for this channel upon initial configuration advanced hls set the values for segments and segment duration if you would like to disable hls, deselect the checkbox cmaf (dash + fmp4 hls) if you would like to enable cmaf (dash + fmp4 hls), select this checkbox and set the values for segments and segment duration convert cea 708 to webvtt if you would like to convert the captions format from cea 70 to webvtt, then select this checkbox timecode (ext x program date time) source select your preference for inserting a timecode options are none , system time (default) or sei timecode disable renditions synchronization select this checkbox if you would like to disable synchronization between the sources (supported for broadcasters v14 8+) drop unaligned segments select this checkbox if you want to drop segments of a multi bitrate adaptive group that are not aligned these segments will not be included in the playlist segment on scte 35 if enabled, scte 35 markers found in the source input will be used to segment the stream and the #ext x cue in/#ext x cue out tags will be added to the manifest don't add ext x cue in select this option to remove the ext x cue in tag, which indicates where to return back to the program, from the playlist scte 35 tag select the ad marker tag that will be used to segment the stream ext x cue – cue in and cue out ad markers ext x daterange with ext x daterange ad marker tags, you use scte35 out attributes to specify the timing of the ad avail ext x cue and ext x daterange – zixi will use both ad marker tags to segment ext x cue & ext oatcls scte35 the ext oatcls scte35 marker tag includes the base 64 encoded scte payload zixi will use both ad marker tags to segment segments between ext x program date time tags configure the the frequency in which the ext x program date time tags will appear in the manifest by specifying the number of segments between each ext x program date time tag drop first segment enabling this option will drop the first segment in the manifest for hls workflows, this can help ensure smoother playback by eliminating non keyframe segments that might cause decoding issues support multiaudio if the input stream includes multiple audio channels, select this option to enable multiple separate audio channels ascending playlist order select this option to order the master playlist in ascending order by bitrate