Add a live event

After creating a live channel and configuring your encoder settings, you can create and broadcast a live event stream to your audience:

Support 12-hour event streams
Enable seamless workflows with hands-off publishing
Provide live event streams that instantly convert to video replay after broadcasting has finished
Stream live events to your web players, mobile apps, apps, and social media platforms

Prerequisites

Item	Description
Live streaming entitlement	Entitlement for live streaming For more information, contact your JWP representative.
Live channel	Grouping of live event streaming settings Live events must be tied to a live channel.
App config entitlement	Entitlement to use the app config App config entitlement also enables the content types feature. For more information, contact your JWP representative.
Content types loaded to property	Type of media based on shared custom parameters To access the Live Event content type, load default content types to your JWP property.

You can create individual live events to be part of your live channel.

Follow this step to create and register a live event in the JWP dashboard:

Create a live stream.

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Be sure to click the Add Status and Scheduling Custom Parameters to Media Item checkbox as part of step 7.

Follow these steps to add metadata to your live channel:

From your Media Library, select a live channel. The media details page appears.
Edit your content metadata.

Under the Content Type section, fill out the related Live Channel fields.

Field	Description
Free	Flag indicating whether content is free or paid Use the following step to configure this field: 1. Click the Yes or No radio button.
Product IDs	JWP identifiers of subscription assets that allow access to the content Use the following step to configure this field: 1. In the textbox, enter a comma-separated list of all assets with content access.
EPG Schedule URL	URL path to an EPG schedule source for the stream Use the following step to configure this field: 1. In the textbox, enter the URL of your EPG.
Use EPG Demo	Toggle to enable JWP’s demo EPG for the stream Use the following step to configure this field: 1. Click the Yes or No radio button. NOTE: Only enable this demo for non-production sites where you want the EPG schedule to loop.