# Understanding Amazon Chime SDK media stream pipeline events
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Media stream pipelines send the following events. Expand each section to learn more.

## Amazon Chime Media Stream Pipeline Kinesis Video Stream Start
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The Amazon Chime SDK media pipeline sends this event when the media stream pipeline starts receiving audio from the meeting and streaming that audio to KVS. Empty `AttendeeId` and `ExternalUserId` fields indicate that the media pipeline sent mixed audio to the KVS stream.

```
{
    "version": "0", 
    "id": "5ee6265a-0a40-104e-d8fd-a3b4bdd78483", 
    "detail-type": "Chime Media Pipeline State Change", 
    "source": "aws.chime", 
    "account": "111122223333", 
    "time": "2021-07-28T20:20:49Z", 
    "region": "us-east-1", 
    "resources": [], 
    "detail": {
        "eventType": "chime:MediaPipelineKinesisVideoStreamStart", 
        "timestamp": 1627503649251, 
        "meetingId": "1e6bf4f5-f4b5-4917-b8c9-bda45c340706", 
        "externalMeetingId": "Meeting_Id", 
        "mediaPipelineId": "e40ee45e-2ed1-408e-9156-f52b8208a491", 
        "mediaRegion": "ap-southeast-1",
        
        "attendeeId": "Attendee_Id", 
        "externalUserId": "External_User_Id",
                
        "kinesisVideoStreamArn": "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:us-east-1:123456:stream/Chime*",
        "startFragmentNumber": "1234567899444",
        "startTime": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ"
                
    }
}
```

## Amazon Chime Media Stream Pipeline Kinesis Video Stream End
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The media pipeline sends this event to Event Bridge when streaming to KVS ends.

```
{
    "version": "0", 
    "id": "5ee6265a-0a40-104e-d8fd-a3b4bdd78483", 
    "detail-type": "Chime Media Pipeline State Change", 
    "source": "aws.chime", 
    "account": "111122223333", 
    "time": "2021-07-28T20:20:49Z", 
    "region": "us-east-1", 
    "resources": [], 
    "detail": {
        "eventType": "chime:MediaPipelineKinesisVideoStreamEnd", 
        "timestamp": 1627503649251, 
        "meetingId": "1e6bf4f5-f4b5-4917-b8c9-bda45c340706", 
        "externalMeetingId": "Meeting_Id", 
        "mediaPipelineId": "e40ee45e-2ed1-408e-9156-f52b8208a491", 
        "mediaRegion": "ap-southeast-1",
        
        "attendeeId": "Attendee_Id", 
        "externalUserId": "External_User_Id",
                
        "kinesisVideoStreamArn": "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:us-east-1:123456:stream/Chime*",
        "startFragmentNumber": "1234567899444",
        "startTime": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ",
        "endTime": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ",
        "endFragmentNumber": "1234567899555"
    }
}
```