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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:
- Click here to access your product management on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
- Click directly on the name assigned to the relevant product.
- Click on Scheduling in the left sidebar.
- Click on Scheduling Tool in the left sidebar:
- 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.
Link to this FAQ: