Microsoft AzureMedia Services

Pavlo Revenkov

EPAM Cloud Computing Competency Center

Email: pavlo_revenkov@epam.com

Skype: rp_risingstar

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Video encoding 4

• 3GPP• 3GPP2• ASF• AVI• DV• MOD• M2TS• MP4• MPEG-1• MPEG-2• MTS• PIFF 1.3• TS• VOB• WMV• XESC

Inputformats

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• DV• H.264• MPEG-1• MPEG-2• MPEG-4 v2• VC-1• WMV

Inputcodecs

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Outputformats

(containers)

• MP4• PIFF 1.1• WMV

• H.264• VC-1

Outputcodecs

Streamingformats

• HLS• Smooth Streaming• MPEG DASH

Audio encoding 6

• AC3• AIFF• BWF• MP3• M4A• M4B• WAV• WMA

Inputformats

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• AC-3• AAC• AAC-LC• HE-AAC v1• HE-AAC v2• MP3• WMA

Inputcodecs

Outputformats

(containers)

• AAC• WMA

• AAC-LC• HE-AAC v1• HE-AAC v2• WMAOutput

codecs

Integrated CDN support 7

Concepts 8

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Input media files

Asset

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Output media files

Asset:• Contains digital files (video, audio, text tracks, etc.)• Contains metadata about digital files• Mapped to Azure Blob Storage

Blob

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Asset

Task:• Contains asset processing instructions

Processor:• Compute resource to be used for work

Encode EncryptThumbnails Package

Tasks

Processor Processor Processor Processor

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Asset

Job:• Combines several tasks• Contains details of the processing work• Event handling• Monitoring

Job

Progress EventsTask execution

Streaming 11

Static packaging Dynamic packaging

• Encode with specific presets

{media services account name}.origin.mediaservices.net/{locator ID}/{filename}.ism/Manifest(format=m3u8-aapl)

• Encode with multi-bitrate MP4 preset

URL example:

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Tasks are executed one by one.If you want to execute the tasks in parallel you should purchase additional Reserved Units.

Data processed Data processed

First 5 TB/Month $1.99 per GB

Next 15 TB/Month $1.60 per GB

Next 30 TB/Month $1.09 per GB

Next 50 TB/Month $0.89 per GB

Greater than 100 TB/Month

$0.69 per GB

Reserved Unit – 99$/Month

On-demand streaming is charged based on the number of Reserved Units you use.Reserved Unit provides bandwidth up to 200 Mbps per Reserved Unit along with built-in failover.

Streaming Reserved Unit – 199$/Month

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References

Get started with Media Services: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/media

-services-dotnet-get-started/

Process assets with the Media Services SDK: http://

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj129580.aspx

Media Services Encoder System Presets: http://

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj129582.aspx

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Questions? 15