I am building a video library on Azure Media Service and want to give feature where my streaming endpoint(like manifest hls/Dashed/smooth streaming urls urls) can be shareable on Facebook like how YouTube URL works on Facebook share,
i am not sure, is this possible or not?? if yes than which encoding format i need to use here, i tried different encoding here but they didn't work for me,
if above cant be done than whats the best alternate
The steps you need are:
Upload the source video (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/media-services-dotnet-upload-files)
Encode it to a format that supports streaming, using Standard Encoder using a preset like "Content Adaptive Multiple Bitrate MP4" (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/media-services-dotnet-encode-with-media-encoder-standard)
Above will produce an output Asset containing multiple MP4 files
Publish this output Asset (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/media-services-deliver-streaming-content)
You can now use the streaming locator that step 4 generatesin Azure Media Player (http://aka.ms/amsplayer)
However, before you can share links on Facebook, you need to stand up another web service - I've let my colleague know about this thread, and she will follow up shortly.
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I'm using Azure Media Services and I need to encode input audio files to mp3 output files. I've used Standart Encoder for encoding video files, but it seems Standart Encoder can't produce mp3 (I understand that it can encode audio with AAC and produce mp4 file with the audio but unfortunately I need exactly mp3).
So I'm trying to use Media Encoder Premium Workflow. In the documentation, I see that I need to use Workflow Designer tool but can't understand where I can get it. Could you please point me out where I can find it? Or maybe you can suggest other solution for getting mp3 after processing audio using Azure Media Services?
I see that you have considered Azure Functions. Since that does not appear to address your needs, please contact us via mepd#microsoft.com
We'll provide you the instructions on how to download the Workflow Designer, and use it.
I want to protect my uploaded content after it is downloaded. This link provides some pointers about doing that. The link refers to using a .ismv file for this. But as far as I know, the Media Encoder used to encode MP4 to Smooth Streaming is deprecated.
How to generate smooth streaming files given an MP4 file using Azure Media Services ? Also, since it only supports PlayReady, how to play it on other browsers which don't support PlayReady ?
See the documentation links below for information on offline DRM in Azure Media Services. These cover offline HLS and offline MPEG-DASH. The Smooth static encryptor has been deprecated in favor of using dynamic encryption.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/media-services-content-protection-overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/offline-widevine-for-android
Can anyone please guide me, step by step how to watermark/Overlay a video in Azure as I am new to Azure. If Possible please guide me with a tutorial or Video tutorial for the same. I have uploaded a .mp4 video in Azure and streamed it and able to view it in azure media player. Please guide me for watermarking or overlaying a video in azure.
Also I need to understand, azure is providing watermarking / overlay as a service so is there a way to do water marking directly with an Azure interface without visual studio C# coding.
Thanks in advance..
Do you need to overlay an image onto a video? Or do you want to overlay a video over another video? For the former case, the image will have to overlaid on the input video during the encoding process. There is a basic example documented here. In that example, the output contains a single MP4 at 640x360 resolution, which is sufficient for delivery via progressive download. Since you need to stream your video, you should update the Codecs section in that example with additional video bitrates - such as the one showed here.
You also mention needing to do this without writing code. If you have a PC, then you can install and run AMS Explorer (https://aka.ms/amse). Browse to the input video you want to process, hit "Ctl+R" and you will see tabs to specify the encoding settings, and others for advanced features including overlays.
I am currently using Azure Blob to store images, and it works great. For a new product I am working on, we are starting to integrate videos. We decided to use Azure Blob to store our videos, and it works great.
We also are saving meta data to the images and videos, and using the Azure Search Service to index the images, and videos, to allow for ease of searching in the new product.
The new problem we are experiencing is the mass amount of file formats being found for upload, are not playing in all devices, and browsers we need to support.
We looked in to Azure Media Services, and found if we encode the videos as H.264 MP4 SD 16x9 using Azure Media Player, it will work in all devices. However, we are now trying to identify how we can easily, and without adding much more time to the user, have the video converted and bound to our search results, to allow for a download link (original video) and play link (converted video).
If anyone knows of a solution, or has a different conversion service that could help, it would be appreciated.
Thank You!
I'm building a mobile app and the app streams videos using ExoPlayer for Android. My idea is to use smooth streaming for streaming media files.
The app will only stream videos clips that I upload to Amazon S3 bucket myself so I do not need real time encoding or anything.
I'm using Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 to encode my media files.
So my idea is to encode media files manually on my local computer and upload them to S3 bucket and serve via CloudFront.
I have figured out that .ismc file contains manifest details.
Would this really work?
Alright, I found an answer! This tutorial explains it all.
http://howto-phpjsjqueryawss3ec2cloudfrontfacebooktwittergoogleawsapis.com/how-to-smooth-stream-microsoft-smooth-streaming-files-on-amazon-cloudfront-without-a-web-server/