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This solution will deploy a pre-configured EC2 instance, optional networking, and an IVS channel, all with CloudFormation. When you push an RTMP feed to the EC2 instance, it will automatically inject subtitles and start the live IVS channel with captions.

This project is meant as a demonstrator for how to generate real-time subtitles using Amazon Transcribe.

The CloudFormation template will deploy all the resources above, into a subnet of your choosing, or create a new VPC+Subnets from scratch.

Deploy cloudformation.yaml into your AWS Account by uploading the template. Only one CloudFormation parameter, SourceVideoCIDR is required.

In the CloudFormation outputs, there is an RTMPEndpoint that you can use to publish RTMP video to using a tool such as OBS.

If you entered a SourceVideoCIDR, that CIDR range will be open on the security group on port 22 and 1935 so that you may SSH and also RTMP push video to the EC2 instance.

When a video publish begins, the Nginx RTMP module will execute a shell script that has been pre-installed on the EC2 instance. This script kicks off a video production workflow to inject subtitles, using ffmpeg, NodeJS, and a modified version of libcaption that is hosted in this repo.

After the workflow starts, the video with subtitles is pushed to a new Amazon IVS Channel. The link to the channel's m3u8 URL is inside the CloudFormation outputs, called ChannelPlaybackUrl.

Congrats! You now have an IVS channel with subtitles!

Stop reading here, unlses you want to customize and run this manually.

You can also clone this repo and build the source code into any Linux system. The instructions are below. You can also find the full script of commands inside the cloudformation.yaml.

This project requires nodejs 16+ and cmake build tools.

1. Clone the repo and navigate into the project folder
2. npm install to install dependencies.
3. Compile and install libcaption from the libcaption folder per readme
4. Install ffmpeg

There is a bash script start.sh to start up all the components. The 4 parameters are:

1. -i input_url, input/source 1 stream url
2. -b input_url, input/source 2 stream url (may be same as input 1, or different)
3. -d destination_url, the output/destination stream url
4. -f format, the output/destination format. If RTMP, then use flv
5. -d delay, the delay to add to the video to sync up the subtitles

chmod +x start.sh ./start.sh -i rtmps://input-url/live/1234 -b rtmps://input-url/live/1234 -o rtmps://output-url/live/1234 -f flv -d 1.5