Media Services

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the daily lives of everyone around the globe has been profound.

Azure Media Services provides a platform with which you can broadcast live events. You can use our APIs to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video feeds for delivery via industry-standard protocols like HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and MPEG-DASH.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission; We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever.

Microsoft Azure Media Services Video Indexer (VI) enables the customization of language models by allowing customers to upload examples of sentences or words belonging to the vocabulary of their specific use case.

Extending Azure security capabilities; Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads; Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service; and much more.

After sweeping up multiple awards with the general availability release of Azure Media Services’ Video Indexer, including the 2018 IABM for innovation in content management and the prestigious Peter Wayne award, the team has remained focused on building a wealth of new features and models

Media and entertainment industry conferences are by far some of my favorites. Creativity, disruption, opportunity, and technology – particularly cloud, edge, and AI – are everywhere. It’s been exciting to see those things come together at NAB 2018, SIGGRAPH, and now IBC Show 2018.

Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services building the ability to encode, protect, analyze and deliver video at scale.

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The Azure Media Services team is proud to announce the availability of Azure Media Analytics which is a collection of speech and vision services offered at enterprise scale, compliance, security and…

In this post, you will learn about our reference linear streams, how they were set up, and how you can use them.

This article focuses on RTMP ingest feature enabled by Azure Media Services, and how it can be used to source multi-bitrate live feed to Azure Media Services channels using Wirecast, Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) and FFmpeg encoders.