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Scheduling my stream delivery

While many contents need to be delivered on a 24/7 basis, other contents (for example, sport games) are typically only delivered during events that last a few hours or a few days.

Quortex Link allows to schedule the distribution of such content only for the duration of the events. This allows to save on cost, or to restrict content availability to the chosen time ranges.

Link Scheduler is available as part of the Premium Plan. Please contact us if you need to activate it for your organization.

Creating a scheduled event

Within a pool, scheduled events can be used to manage the distribution of content from inputs to outputs from the pool.

Creating a scheduled event

A scheduled event applies to one or several inputs of a given pool. At defined times, link from event inputs to their outputs will be set to the required state : at start time, inputs and outputs are enabled, link are created, at end time, link are removed and inputs and outputs are disabled.

You can always manually enable or disable the link from an input to its output, for example to perform some tests, or to adapt to last-minute changes.

Disable or Enable SRT Links in a manual way

If at event start time, link is already enabled for an input, no change will be performed, as content is already streamed.

If an output is manually linked to an input during an event, this output will not be disabled at the end of the event. Input will also remain active as it will be considered as being used by the scheduler.

Managing a scheduled event

A scheduled event is either _scheduled _(start time is in the future), _started _(start time is in the past, end time is in the future), or _finished _(end time is in the past).

The temporal nature of scheduled events adds some restriction on modification possibilities. For example, the start time of a _started _event can't be modified, but its end time can be extended.

List of scheduled events

Scheduled event and connections

Scheduled event allow to manage the delivery of content from inputs to outputs.

The SRT streams of the input should be ingested 24/7, ensuring that the content is always received and ready to be delivered.

On outputs, the connection should have been pre-configured and tested with the receivers before events. We will keep all the cloud infrastructure and IP properties unchanged before, during, and after an event.

No content will be streamed during a scheduled event if connections are not properly established.

Outputs SRT URL

When scheduler is used, links between inputs and outputs are created when an event start and released at the end. So, if you are using SRT Listeners for outputs, the URL/IP cannot be guaranteed and will be updated.

Updated on: 16/10/2025

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