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Azure Media Services

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What is Azure Media Services?

Azure Media Services available from Microsoft's Azure platform of applications and services, provides tools to encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale. It includes high-definition video encoding and streaming services to reach audiences on whatever devices they use.…

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What is Azure Media Services?

Azure Media Services available from Microsoft's Azure platform of applications and services, provides tools to encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale. It includes high-definition video encoding and streaming services to reach audiences on whatever devices they use. as well as enhance…

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Azure Media Services v3 using Azure Portal Dec 2020

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Azure Media Service Portal Experience 2: Content Protection

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Azure Media Service Portal Experience 3: Live Streaming Workflow

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Azure Media Service Portal Experience 1: Video On Demand Workflow

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Product Details

What is Azure Media Services?

Azure Media Services available from Microsoft's Azure platform of applications and services, provides tools to encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale. It includes high-definition video encoding and streaming services to reach audiences on whatever devices they use. as well as enhance content discoverability and performance with AI. Includes services also help protect content with digital rights management (DRM).
  • Multi-channel pipeline that orchestrates video and audio analysis and incorporates cues into a single timeline
  • Web interface for evaluation and integration, plus web widgets and REST APIs
  • Customization and management features, to train and fine-tune selected models to improve indexing accuracy
  • Compliance with regulations including HIPAA, ISO 27001-27018, FedRAMP, HITRUST, and PCI

Azure Media Services ultimately lets users deliver any media, on virtually any device, to anywhere in the world using the cloud. The collection of services provide encoding, live or on-demand streaming, content protection, and indexing for video and audio content.

Services


Video & Audio Analytics
Audio analysis is available in two bundles of features at different price points. The standard Audio Analyzer preset provides a richer set of metadata using a predefined set of AI-based audio analysis models, including speech transcription, speaker indexing, speech sentiment analysis, and keywords and formatted output captions or subtitles. The Basic Audio Analyzer preset provides a low-cost option to extract only speech transcription, and format output captions and subtitles.

Video on Demand (VoD) Encoding
Standard Encoder transcodes video and audio input files into output formats suitable for playback on a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, gaming consoles, and televisions.

Live Events & Live Transcription
Live Events (also known as Channels in legacy APIs) enable you to stream content to your audience in near real time. Live events are used in conjunction with streaming endpoints (origin) to provide live streaming service.

Live Transcription is designed to work in conjunction with live streaming workloads, as an add-on capability when using Pass-through Live Events, or Standard/Premium Live Encoder Live Events.

Streaming
Deliver on-demand and live video streams to customers in multiple formats and at scale. Standard and Premium streaming services deliver content directly to a media player application or to a Content Delivery Network for further distribution. Media Services customers choose either a standard endpoint or one or more premium streaming units, per their needs. Standard streaming endpoint is suitable for most streaming workloads. It includes the same features as premium streaming units and scales outbound bandwidth automatically. Premium streaming units are suitable for advanced workloads, providing dedicated, scalable bandwidth capacity.

Content protection
Secures assets with PlayReady digital rights management (DRM), Widevine Modular license delivery, Apple FairPlay Streaming, or clear key Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. Pricing is based on the number of licenses or keys issued by the service.

Azure Media Services Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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