Today at the NAB show we announced a brand new player framework called the “Azure Media Player”. A brand new, free player solution built to playback media content from Microsoft Azure Media Services. Azure Media Player has the ability to reach a wide variety of browsers and devices with simple HTML and JavaScript code. Azure Media Player is easy to set up and use in your web pages and blogs. It only takes a few minutes to get playback of media … Read More
How Azure Media Services Earned CDSA Security Certification
Yesterday, I announced how extremely proud I am that Azure Media Services has recently been awarded certification by a CDSA-appointed external auditor. We are the only media platform in the market that has achieved CDSA certification on our encoding platform services. The CPS certification provides a standards-based method of assuring our customers – and yours – that the intellectual property rights of media assets stored, encoded, managed, and distributed from within Azure are safe and secure. Further, if you build … Read More
Live Encoding Preview
Today at NAB 2015, the Media Services team announced live encoding in the cloud is now available in Preview. With this new feature you can finally enable live transcoding in you Media Services live channels, allowing you to send in a single high bitrate stream instead of multi-bitrate encodings. This release also brings the following key capabilities to your live channels in the cloud: Live encoding of a single bitrate live feed into an adaptive bitrate stream Ability to ingest a … Read More
Azure Media Services: First Cloud Media Service Awarded Certification by CDSA
After many years of work building out the services and compliance procedures to meet our initial goal of a “security first” architecture for our platform, I am extremely proud to announce that Microsoft Azure Media Services has been awarded certification by a CDSA-appointed external auditor. This initial certification status is valid for six months, after which further successful on-site audits will extend the certification for one-year periods. Azure Media Services is committed to continuing the CDSA audits, as well as … Read More
Introducing Azure Premium Encoder
A few weeks back we introduced a new encoder to Azure Media Services called Azure Media Encoder Premium. This new encoder complements our existing encoding services by offering more advanced features for the media and entertainment industry. This new encoder allows you to build out more professional cloud encoding workflows on our platform with support for more file formats and a new visual workflow designer tool. I’m really excited about the capabilities of the new Workflow Designer which allows you to graphically … Read More