Azure Media Services announcement
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Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build media applications that include encoding, content protection with DRM, video indexing, live streaming, dynamic packaging, and content delivery at scale. The API now features:
A simplified development and management model that
adds new capabilities across live, VOD, and Content Protection
includes new presets to facilitate automated audio and video metadata extraction workflows in Azure
A new live streaming (LiveEvent) entity with support for 8-second end-to-end low-latency streaming across both HLS and DASH (when using 1s GOPs)
Release of a CLI 2.0 command line module that supports all API features (including live!)
Better integration experience with key Azure services like Event Grid, Logic Apps, and Functions
Updated versions of the most requested client SDKs for .NET, .NET Core, Java, Go, Ruby, Python, and Node.js.
In addition, there are updates to Azure Media Player— AMP now includes a Low Latency profile to use with the new LiveEvent entity, and its accessibility support has been enhanced with the inclusion of the closed-captioning standard CEA-708.
For more information on the above, please read the announcement blog.
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As part of our impending shut-down of ACS authentication and Key support in Azure Media Services, we will be removing support for ACS key management from Powershell as of next week.
If you have not begun your migration to use AAD authentication, you should begin so IMMEDIATELY!
In June we will be shutting off ACS key authentication support for all calls to Azure Media Services API. This means that all API calls and code that has not been migrated to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) auth will no longer work.
See our previous announcements on the required updates here:
ACS deprecation AnnouncementAlso see the full blog post with details on migration here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/
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Azure Media Services client SDKs for both Java and PHP now support Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
Due to the upcoming deprecation of key authentication support for the Azure Access Control service (ACS) on June 22, 2018, all Media Services customers are required to upgrade their client SDK or REST API code to support Azure AD authentication.
To get the latest Java SDK release, see the details in our Java documentation. To download the latest PHP SDK for Media Services, look for version 0.5.7 of the Microsoft/WindowsAzure package in the Packagist repository. For critical information about the deprecation of ACS, see our blog.
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This is a CRITICAL reminder of an upcoming BREAKING CHANGE to your code if you are using Azure Media Services.
On June 1, 2018, we will be shutting down ACS authentication key support. This is currently the primary way most customers are authenticating with Azure Media Services. We are being forced off the ACS system due to that team's planned retirement of the backend ACS key services. As we have blogged before, we have moved to Azure Active Directory for Authentication (AAD). See my previous blog post here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/Starting in November 2017, we will be turning off the ACS key blade in the Media Services section of the Azure Portal. You will no longer be able to retrieve or rotate your existing ACS keys for authentication with Media Services. We are doing this to promote the coming critical change
more, and ask customers to move more rapidly to meet the June 1 deadline. You can still list your keys via the REST management API or through Powershell.
We are pleading directly to our customer base to IMMEDIATELY update your SDK or REST API code to use Active Directory (AAD ) authentication. Do not delay, as this will be a breaking change to your code on June 1, 2018.You production code using ACS keys will begin to fail authentication on that date.
If you have any questions, reach out on this forum or email amshelp@microsoft.com to reach our team.Thanks,
Azure Media Services team -
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The Media Services team is very excited to announce some long awaited customer features, including both our new Standard Streaming Endpoints and Enhanced Azure CDN Integration.
Our new Standard Streaming Endpoints offer auto-scaling and the flexibility to deliver your content to virtually every device through dynamic packaging into HLS, MPEG-DASH, and Smooth Streaming as well as dynamic encryption for Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay, and AES128 without needing to worry about Streaming Units. They also scale from very small to very large audiences with thousands of concurrent viewers through Azure CDN integration. The new Streaming endpoints only cost a very low monthly fee, with no additional costs when they scale up based on demand.
Moving forward, all new Media Services accounts will be created with Standard Streaming Endpoint by default. Addition to this all new media services accounts come with 15 days of free Standard Streaming Endpoint. This is great for developers who need to test out our MPEG-DASH and HLS advanced features without committing to spending for the month. Existing Media Services accounts with classic Streaming Endpoint will not be automatically migrated to Standard Streaming Endpoint, but will have the option to migrate manually. Standard Streaming Endpoints is our recommended option for virtually all streaming scenarios and audience sizes.
In addition to Standard Streaming Endpoints, we are also pleased to announce enhanced Azure CDN integration. With a single click you can integrate all the available Azure CDN providers (Akamai and Verizon) to your Streaming Endpoint including their Standard and Premium products and you can manage and configure all the related features through the Azure CDN portal. When Azure CDN is enabled for a Streaming Endpoint using Azure Media Services, data transfer charges between the Streaming Endpoint and CDN do not apply. Data transferred is instead charged at the CDN edge using CDN pricing.
You can start trying out new Standard Streaming Endpoint and CDN integration or migrate your existing endpoints to Standard Streaming Endpoint using Azure Portal (Please note that AMS is not accessible via Azure Classic portal and have a new home).
If you prefer writing code, you need to use REST 2.15 and upgrade to .NET SDK 3.8.0.5.
For more information please check our blog post and Streaming endpoints overview.
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WAMS Service Management APIs are now live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn167014.aspx
Feedback welcome
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You can now monitor your usage of On-Demand Streaming for your media services accounts via the following three metrics that are now available via the Azure Media Services dashboard.
Streaming Data Out - Indicates how many Bytes of egress data has been used for On-Demand Streaming.
Streaming HTTP Errors - Indicates how many HTTP Errors have occured. This includes server errors (e.g. HTTP 500 caused by blob store or a media services component) as well as typical client errors (e.g. HTTP 404 or 403). In a future update we will provide additional granularity so that you can track these errors individually.
Streaming Requests - Indicates how many requests for data have been made for on-demand streaming.
If there are other metrics that you would like to see available for on-demand streaming, add the request to our uservoice board - https://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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We have a User Voice site that we have been using for IIS Media Services on-premises for many years that we would like to direct our customers to post new feature requests and vote on features for Azure Media Services as well. We decided to mix the customer feature list, as many of the same feature requests will impact both our cloud and on-premises solutions for Media Services.
Please post your feature requests to our User Voice Media Services site here:
http://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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Azure Media Player : Streaming voice/sound doesn't end even if AMP is closed
Hello, We are facing this weird issue of the sound/voice from the media stream not ending even if the Azure Media Player itself is closed. Is this a known ...Unanswered | 2 Replies | 803 Views | Created by ams-v3-Developer - Friday, April 10, 2020 2:36 AM | Last reply by ams-v3-Developer - Saturday, April 11, 2020 5:43 AM -
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Azure Media Player, "Alternative Setup for Dynamically Loaded HTML"
I'm trying to load a collection of videos dynamically on a razor vb.html page. According to the documentation on Azure Media player website I need to " run the following ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1079 Views | Created by Ole _Dufour - Monday, May 22, 2017 2:31 PM | Last reply by jhodges8 - Sunday, April 5, 2020 1:14 AM -
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Encode with overlay (watermark) on Media Services v3
Hi, Is it now possible to encode video with Overlays using Media Services v3? If so, is it possible to provide some code sample using .NET Core? I see ...Proposed | 3 Replies | 808 Views | Created by Simbrams - Monday, March 23, 2020 3:56 PM | Last reply by AjayKumar-MSFT - Friday, April 3, 2020 6:56 PM -
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Stream to Youtube
Hi, I have a stream used for my website ( using media services live event ) working fine. Any throughts on solution to restream that same feed to ...Proposed | 5 Replies | 743 Views | Created by Amine.G - Friday, March 20, 2020 1:40 PM | Last reply by DashleenBhandari-MSFT - Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:24 AM -
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Can I stream data (logs, video from surveillance cameras) from China Factory to Japan head office?
I'm creating factory monitoring system in China. Managers in head office from Japan can view operation records and video from surveillance camera. I heard that China government has a lot ...Proposed | 2 Replies | 756 Views | Created by Khoi Nguyen Ly - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:34 AM | Last reply by JZhouw - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:14 PM -
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Need details for streaming recorded video lectures to 15+ sub centers on an android tv screen with full protection.
We run an education institute.. it has currently 15 franchise centers in india and planning to grow to 50 centers till next year. We want a complete A to Z highly secure ...Proposed | 1 Replies | 576 Views | Created by Abbhishek Soni - Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:47 AM | Last reply by DashleenBhandari-MSFT - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:15 AM -
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Azure Media Services - FairPlay configuration shows - Certificate validation failed
I have already setup DRM for Widevine and Playready. It is working perfectly. Now I also want to enable FairPlay. But when I am trying to add the App Certificate to FairPlay ...Answered | 3 Replies | 815 Views | Created by linkmanishgupta - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:12 AM | Last reply by AjayKumar-MSFT - Friday, March 20, 2020 8:47 AM -
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Azure Media Services : Subtitles/Captions in iOS Native AVPlayer
Hello, We have successfully configured Subtitles/Captions in Azure Media Player which plays media on the Web side. But, how do we configure the same for playing ...Unanswered | 3 Replies | 1058 Views | Created by ams-v3-Developer - Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:13 AM | Last reply by ams-v3-Developer - Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:15 AM -
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DRM licenses with shaka packager?
I followed https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/previous/media-services-deliver-keys-and-licenses & got : Created key ...Proposed | 3 Replies | 1160 Views | Created by heisGarvit - Wednesday, March 4, 2020 6:42 AM | Last reply by heisGarvit - Saturday, March 7, 2020 5:24 AM -
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Unable to find Client Secret
I had been ...Proposed | 4 Replies | 669 Views | Created by heisGarvit - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 7:28 AM | Last reply by heisGarvit - Wednesday, March 4, 2020 5:09 AM -
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Azure Streaming Private Videos
Hello, i would like to know how to make my video on azure media service privately shared to specific person ( I do not want the person whom i shared ...Proposed | 3 Replies | 800 Views | Created by Peleiades - Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:53 AM | Last reply by AjayKumar-MSFT - Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:13 AM -
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JwtSecurityToken validation
To visualize an Azure Media Services video encrypted with DRM, I obtain a valid token for the corresponding asset that is then delivered to the player for streaming. Private Shared ...Answered | 2 Replies | 718 Views | Created by PanzerIhnen - Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:20 AM | Last reply by PanzerIhnen - Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:05 PM -
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[Announcement] Microsoft Q&A to replace MSDN community platform!
Azure is moving from our MSDN platform to the new Microsoft Q&A platform to help users find faster answers! Some Azure services have already been migrated, while others (including ... -
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Azure Media Services Media Player and React-Native
Howdy folks Im just wondering if the Media Player is supported in React-Native? For instance: Are there any officially supported ...Proposed | 4 Replies | 2530 Views | Created by Adam Grande - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:09 AM | Last reply by William Zhang - Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:10 PM -
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Has the Windows Azure Media Encoder (WAME) been retired early?
Our application for encoding our videos in no longer functioning. Something changed between now and January 21st. Specifically the code cannot find the media ...Answered | 6 Replies | 814 Views | Created by Justin G 99 - Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00 PM | Last reply by Justin G 99 - Saturday, February 1, 2020 3:13 AM -
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Live Streaming Randomly Does not Work on iOS
As of about two weeks ago, we've had users begin reporting that they cannot view our live streams on iOS devices and macOS safari. All other devices (Windows, Android) are fine, to my knowledge. This ...Proposed | 1 Replies | 585 Views | Created by Oliver Spryn - Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:43 PM | Last reply by SnehaAgrawal-MSFT - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:24 PM -
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Azuremedia player video quality controls are not available in Mac Safari ?
Azuremediplayer Version we used - **Azure Media Player v2.1.2** Content type using - **HLS, DRM ...Unanswered | 4 Replies | 907 Views | Created by Rohan.SS - Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:13 AM | Last reply by Rohan.SS - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:41 PM -
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Azure Media Services - Encoding, Publishing, Streaming Endpoints issue.
I am at quite a loss. I'll begin by letting you know I am typically a Linux admin so the Azure portal is fairly foreign to me. We are interested in Azure Media Services ...Proposed | 3 Replies | 703 Views | Created by syn22 - Friday, January 17, 2020 6:36 PM | Last reply by SnehaAgrawal-MSFT - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:38 AM -
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Not able to see Live Streaming channel in Azure Portal if created from .NET SDK Service Principal account
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Quality and track selection controls in Azure Media Player on Safari not showing
Hi, I have multi-bitrate content with DRM encryption (FairPlay, Widevine and PlayReady) that works perfectly fine across all browsers except I cannot get the ...Proposed | 10 Replies | 1408 Views | Created by rscreenhits - Thursday, November 29, 2018 11:20 AM | Last reply by Rohan.SS - Friday, January 24, 2020 10:28 AM
Azure Media Services announcement
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Link
Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build media applications that include encoding, content protection with DRM, video indexing, live streaming, dynamic packaging, and content delivery at scale. The API now features:
A simplified development and management model that
adds new capabilities across live, VOD, and Content Protection
includes new presets to facilitate automated audio and video metadata extraction workflows in Azure
A new live streaming (LiveEvent) entity with support for 8-second end-to-end low-latency streaming across both HLS and DASH (when using 1s GOPs)
Release of a CLI 2.0 command line module that supports all API features (including live!)
Better integration experience with key Azure services like Event Grid, Logic Apps, and Functions
Updated versions of the most requested client SDKs for .NET, .NET Core, Java, Go, Ruby, Python, and Node.js.
In addition, there are updates to Azure Media Player— AMP now includes a Low Latency profile to use with the new LiveEvent entity, and its accessibility support has been enhanced with the inclusion of the closed-captioning standard CEA-708.
For more information on the above, please read the announcement blog.
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Link
As part of our impending shut-down of ACS authentication and Key support in Azure Media Services, we will be removing support for ACS key management from Powershell as of next week.
If you have not begun your migration to use AAD authentication, you should begin so IMMEDIATELY!
In June we will be shutting off ACS key authentication support for all calls to Azure Media Services API. This means that all API calls and code that has not been migrated to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) auth will no longer work.
See our previous announcements on the required updates here:
ACS deprecation AnnouncementAlso see the full blog post with details on migration here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/
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Link
Azure Media Services client SDKs for both Java and PHP now support Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
Due to the upcoming deprecation of key authentication support for the Azure Access Control service (ACS) on June 22, 2018, all Media Services customers are required to upgrade their client SDK or REST API code to support Azure AD authentication.
To get the latest Java SDK release, see the details in our Java documentation. To download the latest PHP SDK for Media Services, look for version 0.5.7 of the Microsoft/WindowsAzure package in the Packagist repository. For critical information about the deprecation of ACS, see our blog.
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Link
This is a CRITICAL reminder of an upcoming BREAKING CHANGE to your code if you are using Azure Media Services.
On June 1, 2018, we will be shutting down ACS authentication key support. This is currently the primary way most customers are authenticating with Azure Media Services. We are being forced off the ACS system due to that team's planned retirement of the backend ACS key services. As we have blogged before, we have moved to Azure Active Directory for Authentication (AAD). See my previous blog post here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/Starting in November 2017, we will be turning off the ACS key blade in the Media Services section of the Azure Portal. You will no longer be able to retrieve or rotate your existing ACS keys for authentication with Media Services. We are doing this to promote the coming critical change
more, and ask customers to move more rapidly to meet the June 1 deadline. You can still list your keys via the REST management API or through Powershell.
We are pleading directly to our customer base to IMMEDIATELY update your SDK or REST API code to use Active Directory (AAD ) authentication. Do not delay, as this will be a breaking change to your code on June 1, 2018.You production code using ACS keys will begin to fail authentication on that date.
If you have any questions, reach out on this forum or email amshelp@microsoft.com to reach our team.Thanks,
Azure Media Services team -
Link
The Media Services team is very excited to announce some long awaited customer features, including both our new Standard Streaming Endpoints and Enhanced Azure CDN Integration.
Our new Standard Streaming Endpoints offer auto-scaling and the flexibility to deliver your content to virtually every device through dynamic packaging into HLS, MPEG-DASH, and Smooth Streaming as well as dynamic encryption for Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay, and AES128 without needing to worry about Streaming Units. They also scale from very small to very large audiences with thousands of concurrent viewers through Azure CDN integration. The new Streaming endpoints only cost a very low monthly fee, with no additional costs when they scale up based on demand.
Moving forward, all new Media Services accounts will be created with Standard Streaming Endpoint by default. Addition to this all new media services accounts come with 15 days of free Standard Streaming Endpoint. This is great for developers who need to test out our MPEG-DASH and HLS advanced features without committing to spending for the month. Existing Media Services accounts with classic Streaming Endpoint will not be automatically migrated to Standard Streaming Endpoint, but will have the option to migrate manually. Standard Streaming Endpoints is our recommended option for virtually all streaming scenarios and audience sizes.
In addition to Standard Streaming Endpoints, we are also pleased to announce enhanced Azure CDN integration. With a single click you can integrate all the available Azure CDN providers (Akamai and Verizon) to your Streaming Endpoint including their Standard and Premium products and you can manage and configure all the related features through the Azure CDN portal. When Azure CDN is enabled for a Streaming Endpoint using Azure Media Services, data transfer charges between the Streaming Endpoint and CDN do not apply. Data transferred is instead charged at the CDN edge using CDN pricing.
You can start trying out new Standard Streaming Endpoint and CDN integration or migrate your existing endpoints to Standard Streaming Endpoint using Azure Portal (Please note that AMS is not accessible via Azure Classic portal and have a new home).
If you prefer writing code, you need to use REST 2.15 and upgrade to .NET SDK 3.8.0.5.
For more information please check our blog post and Streaming endpoints overview.
-
Link
WAMS Service Management APIs are now live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn167014.aspx
Feedback welcome
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Link
You can now monitor your usage of On-Demand Streaming for your media services accounts via the following three metrics that are now available via the Azure Media Services dashboard.
Streaming Data Out - Indicates how many Bytes of egress data has been used for On-Demand Streaming.
Streaming HTTP Errors - Indicates how many HTTP Errors have occured. This includes server errors (e.g. HTTP 500 caused by blob store or a media services component) as well as typical client errors (e.g. HTTP 404 or 403). In a future update we will provide additional granularity so that you can track these errors individually.
Streaming Requests - Indicates how many requests for data have been made for on-demand streaming.
If there are other metrics that you would like to see available for on-demand streaming, add the request to our uservoice board - https://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
-
Link
We have a User Voice site that we have been using for IIS Media Services on-premises for many years that we would like to direct our customers to post new feature requests and vote on features for Azure Media Services as well. We decided to mix the customer feature list, as many of the same feature requests will impact both our cloud and on-premises solutions for Media Services.
Please post your feature requests to our User Voice Media Services site here:
http://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/