Integrate the actual stream, so it could be picked up and processed by our components:
Parameter
Value
Description
* Input Mux
RTMP
CMAF is recommended (fMP4 containers) if encoder has been previously homologated with Akamai Ingest Point (Origin)
Input Video Codec
H.264
Input Audio Codec
AAC
Input Bitrate
750 Kbps
*Input Resolution
480x320
If another resolution is used, please notify it
GOP
60 or 120
60 is recommended
Fps
30
Frames per second
Profile
Baseline
* Lookahead
0-5
Setting it to low will improve latency, but since it reduces output quality for demanding scenes, it works well mainly if there are no or few scene changes.
* B Frames
0-5
The more B Frames used in a GOP, the higher the probability that encoding latency will be increased by a few frames for each B Frame added, as the encoding engine will look ahead to the next P Frames to construct the B frame. Using zero B Frames is possible to counteract this latency impact, but it will require raising the encoding bitrate to keep the same quality level as when using B Frames
Encoder Buffer Size
1x
The default value is twice the video bitrate in bits, which generates a 2-second delay on the decoder. If set to 1x bitrate, it generates a 1-second delay and slightly impacts the video quality.
Latency
2 sec
The max latency from capture device (example: camera) to origin server must be at most 2 sec
The parameters with (*) are recommendations.
For this test with XXX the next setting parameters will be used:
Entry point: XXX
User: XXX
Password: XXX
HLS URL: XX
Note: This parameters will be sent via email.
Integrate your schedule in to our system, so that we would know what matches are going to be streamed
Feed related mandatory requirements
The feed can be either an XML/JSON (refers to condition 1) feed or a Pull API. The following data is needed to integrate the fixture feed:
Sport or SportId
Competition name & CompetitionId
Fixture name & FixtureId
Fixture start time
Home competitor name & Id
Away competitor name & Id
Non-feed related mandatory requirements
IP range to be whitelisted: IP range - 185.107.196.0/22
Any implementation documentation
If feed requires AUTH key (if this is a temporal authentication key, which will have an expiry date 5 weeks prior to the change, we need to be notified and authentication key needs to be provided)
How the streams will be published – match or competition? Every match will have separate stream or you will provide us with one stream per competition (multiple matches?)
In order to match the streaming data to the schedule data, we expect when sending streaming data to AKAMAI to have unified ID, so we could match and link the stream to the fixture.
Conditions
Any kind of integration distinct to XML/JSON is not accepted or needs to be included into the official agreement