Create and manage channel

Available in Classic and VPC

In the Create and manage channel section, we describe how to create a channel, view channel details, and return a channel.

Create channel

To utilize NAVER Cloud Platform's Live Station for live streaming service, you need to create a channel.

To create a channel:

1. From the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Media > Live Station.
2. Click the Channel management menu.
3. Click [Create channel].
4. When the Create channel interface appears, proceed with the following steps in order.
   • 1. Create channel.
   • 2. Set image quality.
   • 3. Set recording.
   • 4. Final confirmation.

1. Create channel

Set basic information for the channel you want to create, and then click [Next].

• Channel name: Enter the name of the channel.
• Output Protocol settings: Select the protocol.
  • HLS: An option to enable stable and highly compatible HLS streaming.
  • LL-HLS: An option to enable low latency HLS streaming using CMAF. Integration of a separate player is required.
  • HLS, Dash: An option to enable both general HLS and Dash streaming.
  • NAVER Cloud Video Player Enhancement Player is required.

• Create CDN: Select a CDN to integrate with.
  • Create new: The CDN is created together with the channel. Once the CDN creation is complete, you can obtain the channel's playback URL.
  • Use existing CDN: Select the existing CDN for integration.

• Channel type: Classification of customer service environment.
  • Depending on the service environment to be applied, you can set the Live Station channel type to REAL/DEV/STAGE.
  • The channel type is a simple identifier, and there is no difference in channel functionality.
• Streaming redundancy settings: If a problem occurs with the main stream URL during setup, stream a broadcast to the backup stream URL without interruption.
• Overseas streaming support: All Live Station channels support stable live broadcast streaming overseas through a foreign forward proxy.
• Multi DRM: If you set it, integrate with One Click Multi DRM.

2. Set image quality.

Select the image quality setting of the channel you want to create, and then click [Next].
When the LL-HLS protocol is enabled, only LL-HLS exclusive image quality options are selectable.

• System image quality settings: Set the image quality provided by default.
• Custom image quality settings: Set the image quality applied directly at creation.
  • In Quality management > Quality setting, you can create custom quality settings.
• Once you select Set image quality, you can view the image quality configuration status and the segment status included in the image quality settings.

3. Set recording

Set the recording feature, and then click [Next].

• Time machine settings: The feature available on Live Station, which allows you to rewind live broadcasts up to 6 hours in the past (equivalent to the existing DVR settings).
• Recording save settings: The configuration for determining whether to record and how and where to save the recorded files.
  • Save temporarily: Temporarily save recorded files for 3 days.
    • You can check the recorded files on the [Recording] tab and store them in the Object Storage bucket. Unsaved recording files are permanently deleted.
  • Auto save: Automatically save recorded files in a designated bucket after broadcasting ends.
  Note

  The time point when saving actually happens depends on the automatic recording settings, and it either automatically records at the same time as the video is streamed, or saves the file when the user completes the start and end of the recording.

• Auto recording settings: Set whether to record automatically.
  • Manual: Start recording by clicking [Start recording] during broadcast streaming.
  • Auto: Start recording at the same time as streaming.
    • However, multiple recorded files may be created if streaming is unstable.
• Recording types of automatic save: Select the recording file type.
  • You can select either MP4, HLS, or both.

4. Final confirmation

Check the setting information of the channel you want to create, and then click [Create channel].

View channel details

To view the details of the channel you created:

1. From the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Media > Live Station.
2. Click the Channel management menu.
3. Click on the channel name in the channel list to view the details.
   • You are directed to the details interface of that channel.
     • Channel name: The name of the channel.
     • Channel status: The status of the channel.
       • Creating: The status of the channel being created.
       • Ready: The ready status without any video source input, which is displayed after the channel is created, or after the broadcasting has ended.
       • Stopped: The status in which the channel, which is in the streaming or ready status, is stopped.
       • Streaming: The status of the broadcasting streaming successfully in the created channel.
     • Apply CDN: Whether to apply CDN and the name of the applied CDN service.
     • Channel type: The type of the channel.
     • Channel ID: The ID of the channel.
     • Streaming information - Main: A stream key that must be entered in the encoder and streamed for broadcasting.
     • Image quality settings: The image quality settings applied to the selected channel.
     • Origin information (origin domain/origin path): The origin information.
     • Channel creation time: The date and time when the channel was created.
     • channel usage hour: Time spent streaming broadcasting through the channel (including test streaming).
     • Recent streaming start time: The date and time when the streaming started.
     • Output Protocol: The output protocol.
     • Recording settings: The recording settings information.
     • Event settings: Whether to configure event settings.

Change channel status

You can stream a broadcast by stopping a channel that is in streaming or ready status, or by changing a channel that is in a stopped status to ready status again.

To change the channel status:

1. From the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Media > Live Station.
2. Click the Channel management menu.
3. To change the status, select the channel by clicking on it and then click [Channel OFF] or [Channel ON].
   • If the channel status is Ready or Streaming, [Channel OFF] is displayed.
   • If the channel status is Stopped, [Channel ON] is displayed.
4. If you click [Channel OFF], stop the channel by clicking [Channel OFF] in the channel ON/OFF popup.
5. If you click [Channel ON], enable the channel by clicking [Channel ON] in the channel ON/OFF popup.

Return channel

To return a channel:

1. From the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Media > Live Station.
2. Click the Channel management menu.
3. In the channel list, click to select the channel you wish to return, and then click [Return channel].
4. Click [Delete] in the channel return popup.
   • The channel is returned and removed from the channel list.