Azure media services encoding failed with error : 0x80131040 - azure

Question

I have some Azure media encoding jobs failing with the below error.
This is an error from azure backend side after the job has been submitted successfully.
Task 'encode', Error : ErrorProcessingTask : Unexpected error when
setting up the Windows Azure Media Encoder task workflow:Could not
load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MediaServices.Platform,
Version=2.10.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or
one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition
does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80131040)
Any idea what is happening here?

Answer 1

I found out that for some reason using the old encoding job preset names like H264 Adaptive Bitrate MP4 Set 720p and the old processor name Windows Azure Media Encoder do not work anymore. Maybe it is temporary maybe not
I fixed the issue by using the processor name Media Encoder Standard and using a job config string like :
{
"Version": 1.0,
"Codecs": [
{
"KeyFrameInterval": "00:00:02",
"StretchMode": "AutoSize",
"H264Layers": [
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 3400,
"MaxBitrate": 3400,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 1280,
"Height": 720,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
},
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 2250,
"MaxBitrate": 2250,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 960,
"Height": 540,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
},
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 1500,
"MaxBitrate": 1500,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 960,
"Height": 540,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
},
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 1000,
"MaxBitrate": 1000,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 640,
"Height": 360,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
},
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 650,
"MaxBitrate": 650,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 640,
"Height": 360,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
},
{
"Profile": "Auto",
"Level": "auto",
"Bitrate": 400,
"MaxBitrate": 400,
"BufferWindow": "00:00:05",
"Width": 320,
"Height": 180,
"BFrames": 3,
"ReferenceFrames": 3,
"AdaptiveBFrame": true,
"Type": "H264Layer",
"FrameRate": "0/1"
}
],
"Type": "H264Video"
},
{
"Profile": "AACLC",
"Channels": 2,
"SamplingRate": 48000,
"Bitrate": 128,
"Type": "AACAudio"
}
],
"Outputs": [
{
"FileName": "{Basename}_{Width}x{Height}_{VideoBitrate}.mp4",
"Format": {
"Type": "MP4Format"
}
}
]
}