Set up your Streaming Endpoints

Once you have added or imported all your assets, you are ready to create Streaming endpoints to enable them to be delivered to your client applications.

Streaming Endpoints work exactly the same in MK.IO as they do in AMS. They are a dynamic just-in-time packager service and origin server that can format and deliver your live and file-based content to your client application. It’s a link between your assets and live streams and the URL that can be used to access your content. Streaming Endpoints can also enable content to be encrypted using industry standard DRMs. Support for DRM is already available in MK.IO.

To create a streaming endpoint, follow the steps detailed in Create a Streaming Endpoint.

Set up your Streaming Locator

To enable your videos and live streams to be accessed by external clients, you need to create a Streaming Locator.

Before creating a Streaming Locator for your file-based asset, ensure:

• You have an asset saved in your account.
• You have created and started a Streaming Endpoint.

To create a streaming locator, follow the steps detailed in Create a Streaming Locator.

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If you have any issues creating your streaming locators, please contact our MediaKind support center for more help and assistance.

Playback your assets

Now that the streaming endpoint and streaming locator are created, we are ready to test playback.

1. From the MK.IO dashboard view, navigate to Assets from the left-hand side menu.
2. From the list of available assets, click on the name of the asset you want to configure. You are then presented with the properties of that asset.
3. From the Audience view player settings, select your newly created Streaming endpoint and Streaming locator.
4. Click the play button, the embedded video player starts playing your asset.
5. From the Playback URLs, copy one of the streaming URLS. then go to MKPlayer on the left and paste the URL, choosing the adequate protocol. When you click Play, the asset plays back in the player. A sample including HTML and Javascript code is provided to embed the player on your website.

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Success! You now have your existing assets into MK.IO, created a streaming endpoint to deliver them and defined streaming locators to provide access to your video streams.