Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build applications to encode, protect, analyze and deliver video at scale. This week, at the Build 2018 conference in Seattle, I was happy to announce a major new API version for Azure Media Services, along with new developer focused features, and updates to Video Indexer. Media processing at scale: Public preview of the new Azure Media Services API (v3) Starting at Build 2018, developers can begin working with … Read More
IBC 2017 Azure Media Services updates
The Azure Media services and Video Indexer teams are at the IBC show this weekend in Amsterdam showing off the latest technologies on Azure for media ISVs and content creators. Check out the latest update in our Azure blog post or stop by Hall 15 to see all of our demos, including the latest in video AI. Over the past months, we have aggressively added innovative new capabilities in Azure to enable content owners and partners to prepare, store, protect, … Read More
Rio 2016: Azure Media Services breaks World Record for Streaming
Azure Media Services breaks world records in streaming the RIO Olympics
NAB Show 2016 – What’s new with Azure Media Services?
We’ve had a very busy year on the Azure Media Services team creating a number of new services, launching new features, and improving the service based on our direct customer feedback. This year at NAB our team flooded the Azure blog with details on all of the great new features. I’ll post an individual blog and comment about each of these new features over the next few weeks, and get into some of the details. To start out, I’ll recap … Read More
Azure Premium Encoder Workflow Designer Training Videos
Back in April at the NAB Show we launched the Azure Premium Encoder. I wrote a post on this new encoder after we launched with some of the high level details about it’s capabilities. One of the key differentiators of this new Encoder is the Workflow Designer tool that we offer for you to use freely when building your workflows for the new Premium Encoder. This tool is really amazing and has tons of features to build out complex “blueprints” … Read More
Hyperlapse for Azure Media Services
Why am I showing you the Tower Bridge? Well, it is a cool bridge… but it’s mostly because I’m in London working with customers this week and it will make a lot more sense in a few moments when you read down to my “demo” of Hyperlapse for Azure Media Services. A few weeks back at the NAB show I was discussing with a few friends the new trend of giant nets surrounding a number of exhibitor booths. This seemed like … Read More
Start using Azure Media Player Today
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
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