Before you begin
We assume that:
1. You know the basics of the FV Player usage. You can check it here: FV Player Start-up Guide
2. You have working MediaConvert encryption pipeline according to the AWS MediaConvert Encrypted HLS Guide and you've successfully encrypted your first video.
To encrypt more videos you don't need to create new encoding job from scratch every time. You can duplicate your recent jobs and save yourself significant amount of time by following these steps:
1. Open your AWS console and go to MediaConvert service.
2. Go to MediaConvert -> Jobs and access your Recent Jobs.
3. Access Job Summary of one of your recent jobs and click on Duplicate.
4. First of all, change your input source.
5. Then go to Apple HLS output group change the output destination.
Use the popup dialog to pick your S3 bucket and enter the location path. You have to use the forward slash in order to put it all into a new folder, and then also enter a filename - without the extension. So if you have multiple courses where each course consists of multiple lessons you can works with a structure like this:
Course-01/Lessons-01/index
6. Now scroll down to DRM encryption settings and update the output path with the location from previous step at the highlighted end of the URL.
The format of that URL need to be:
https://your-wordpress-site.com/?fv_player_hls_key={Location from step 5.}
If your website is using https:// then this URL needs to use https:// as well. If your website is using a domain with www. in front of it, make sure it's included as well.
7. Same goes for the encryption key. You can use our tool to generate a new one.
8. Hit Create button and wait for you job to process.
9. Once it's done, you can access the folder with the encoded stream using the link in the "Outputs" section.
Posting the video to your website
Bring up the FV Player editor and:
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Enter the video URL into the shortcode editor. You can get the file path from the S3 bucket which gives you something like:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/{bucket name}/end-user-hls-demo/index.m3u8If you use CloudFront you need to replace the bucket path with your CloudFront URL, so it ends up being like this:
https://{CloudFront domain ID}.cloudfront.net/end-user-hls-demo/index.m3u8Note that you can also used the FV Player S3 Browser feature, if you have your S3 bucket access keys set in FV Player -> Hosting -> Amazon S3. That way the URL will automatically use the proper CloudFront URL if it's set up.
- Paste in the "Static key value" from Step 16. into the Encryption HLS field. Or you can get it from the "Job summary" screen, just go to Details -> Apple HLS -> "DRM encryption".
- Click "Insert" to save the player
- Save your post and test the video
