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Broadcast a video stream after a countdown

This guide explains how to display a countdown before the next live broadcast or during a scheduled interruption.

 

Scheduling interruption feature

To access the scheduling calendar:

  1. Click here to access your product management on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  2. Click directly on the name assigned to the relevant product.
  3. Click on Scheduling in the left sidebar.
  4. Click on Scheduling Tool in the left sidebar:
  5. Click on the desired date.

 

For example, this configuration on the calendar to interrupt a live program…

… and this configuration for the image and text selection

… will display this result from 3 PM, with a second-by-second countdown of 2 hours visible on the Player of your TV stream:

Once scheduled, the countdown works in correlation with stream cuts if you set one (or several in a row, thus managing the overlap). Note: it takes 2 minutes for a scheduled interruption to be reflected on the countdown.


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