How to insert SCTE-35 markers in Livestream/Playout

Question

AWS media convert support SCTE-35 markers insertion for VOD content only, which further detected by media tailor and replace the ads from given ad server in realtime.

Is their any tool or package that I can use to insert SCTE-35 markers to livestream/playout feeds. For detection I am going to use aws media tailor.

I have searched across the internet but did not found a feasible solution.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Live feed example: https://vidcdn.vidgyor.com/news24-origin/liveabr/playlist.m3u8

Answer 1

AWS Media Convert is designed for VOD use cases - the Live equivalent is AWS Media Live.

AWS Media Live does support insertion of SCTE-35 markers using its scheduling functionality:

The schedule is a list of actions that a channel performs as it is running. You can use actions to do the following:

[other options also but removed here for simplicity]

Insert SCTE-35 messages into the running channel.

The documentation is available online: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/sched-how-actions-work.html

Other vendor's encoders provide similar functionality too.

Answer 2

SuperKabuki does SCTE-35 packet injection on live mpegts streams.

x9k3 does SCTE-35 insertion for live HLS.