Stream Management

Learn how to create and manage live stream definitions (SMIL) for your Streaming CDN Resources and Large CDN Resources (Streaming Content Caching with RTMP Push) using the Medianova Control Panel.

The Stream Management section allows you to define live stream configurations by creating SMIL streams with one or more quality profiles. These streams are used to deliver adaptive bitrate live content across Medianova’s streaming infrastructure.

You can manage all live stream configurations from the Stream Management tab in the Medianova Control Panel by navigating to CDN → CDN Resources and selecting your Streaming CDN Resource or a Large CDN Resource configured with Streaming Content Caching and RTMP Push.

This section lists existing streams and provides the necessary tools to create and manage SMIL-based live streaming configurations.

For Large CDN Resources, Stream Management is available only when the resource uses Streaming Content Caching with RTMP Push. If the resource uses My Origin, this section is not used.

Create a New Stream (SMIL)

To define a new live stream, create a SMIL configuration with one or more quality profiles.

1

Click Create New Stream

In the Streams section, select Create New Stream to open the stream creation form.

2

Enter Stream Details

Provide the required stream identifiers:

• Stream Name – Internal name for managing the stream.

• Stream SMIL Name – The SMIL identifier used by the streaming system.

3

Define Quality Profiles

Each stream must include at least one quality profile. A quality profile defines how the stream is delivered at a specific bitrate and resolution.

Required fields include:

• Video Bitrate

• Audio Bitrate

• Width

• Height

4

Add Multiple Qualities (Optional)

To enable adaptive bitrate streaming, add additional quality profiles.

Click Add Quality to define multiple bitrate and resolution variants.

View Stream Definitions

All created streams appear in the Streams list under the Stream Management tab.

Use this list to review the stream definitions created for the selected resource.

From this list, you can:

• Review existing Stream Name and SMIL Name values

• Verify that each stream includes the expected quality profiles

• Confirm that the stream definition belongs to the selected resource

Each stream definition remains associated with the selected CDN Resource:

• a Streaming CDN Resource, or

• a Large CDN Resource configured with Streaming Content Caching and RTMP Push

This helps you keep stream definitions separated by resource and delivery workflow.

Before starting a live broadcast, verify that the quality profile values in Stream Management match your encoder output settings.

Best Practices

• Define multiple quality profiles to support adaptive bitrate streaming.

• Use consistent naming for Stream Name and SMIL Name to simplify operations.

• Align bitrate and resolution settings with your encoder output.

• For Large CDN Resources, make sure RTMP Push is selected during resource creation before configuring streams here.

• Validate stream configurations before starting live broadcasts.