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# Per-channel billing and encoding usage stats

> Broadcaster now publishes encoding-time and bandwidth usage stats per channel for downstream billing aggregation.

cp-broadcaster now publishes detailed per-channel encoding and bandwidth usage events, which feed the platform billing pipeline directly.

* Encoding statistics are emitted at a regular interval covering active encode minutes, resolution ladder, and output bitrate.
* Billing stats publish honours channel start/stop boundaries so partial-hour usage is accurate.
* A toggle was added to pause billing-stats publish during incident mode to avoid double-charging on retries.
* SKU validation is run on each publish so channels only emit usage for entitlements they actually have.
* The same stats feed the channel-analytics surfaces so customers see consistent numbers between billing and dashboard.