Microsoft announces Windows Azure Media service officially released

After a few months of probation, Microsoft finally announced that Windows Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure Media Service Official GA" (General Availability). This is an exciting message for streaming media users. With media service, you can easily build an in-house video training application, and even a professional video platform like Youtune is not difficult. :-) You got a heartbeat? Let's introduce media
Several highlights of the service.

Video upload

Media Service supports a variety of uploading methods, such as rest APIs or. Net,java SDKs. For High-volume video uploads, you can use UDP Bulk ingest. NET Library or a third-party solution that uses UDP (User Datagram Kyoto) technology for fast uploads, such as aspera (and Windows Azure Media Service integration)

Encoding support

Windows Azure Media Service provides built-in support for encoding media into various file formats. This means that you do not need to buy or configure your custom media coding software, instead you can simply start the encoding task via the rest API (or use the. NET or Java SDK) automatically. All the coded formats supported by Windows Azure you can find it here.

Video protection

Video protection means encrypting real-time streaming media, or encrypting content for transportation, storage, and delivery to protect your video from unauthorized copies. Currently supported DRM technology is Microsoft PlayReady homeowner and MPEG commonly used encryption. Microsoft will continue to provide other DRM encryption technologies.

Multi-terminal support

Traditionally, if you have multiple different clients (IOS,XBOX,PC, etc.), the encoded content needs to be packaged and stored in multiple targeted versions. This traditional packaging process consumes three times times the storage requirements and significantly increases the cost and latency of processing. Azure's media service uses dynamic packaging, which saves a lot of storage costs and time by storing a single file format for real-time packaging and switching when different clients need it. Windows Azure Media Service provides a variety of client player SDKs for mainstream devices and platforms, so it's easy to butt seamlessly with your products and services.

In addition, the Azure Media service also supports video-embedded ads, modified subtitles, on-demand streaming and live broadcast, and so on. The classic case is the London Olympic Games 17 days network and mobile phone live, a total of 35 channels on the network and iOS, Windows Phone 7, Android terminals for scrolling, the use of 500 Windows Azure virtual machine for the overall 2,200 hours of video live.

To learn more about the features of the Azure Media service, please visit Windows Azure Media Services page to learn how to develop, and refer to the tutorials on Windows Azure Media Service Dev Center. What do you think? Ready to try Windows Azure Media service?