Presented at TechDays Netherlands on 13.10.2017. Microsoft Azure Media Services is a collection of PaaS components that make it easy to stream media content to any device, anywhere. Azure Media Services has been battle-tested in some of the largest sporting events in the world, the Olympic Games. While powerful, it might take a while to get your head around Azure Media Services. In this session I will cover the more advanced features of Azure Media Services through a series of easy-to-replicate demos. I will cover live streaming, media indexer, face detection and content moderation. https://www.techdays.nl/

3. Live & On
Demand
Streaming
with Azure
CDN
Content
Protection
EncodingCloud
Upload &
Storage
ASM is PaaS, with which
you can take any content
from any source (live or on-
demand), move it to the
cloud, process it and
distribute to any device.
Player
Clients
Media
Analytics
& Video AI
You may pick your preferred solution to
replace one or more pieces of 1st party AMS
solution.

4. • Media companies, as well as enterprises
• Think security footage, townhall meetings, internal trainings, remote learning…
• Any content, any device, anywhere
• Sub-clipping
• Instant live to VOD transition
• Dynamic packaging
• Live ad insertion
• Premium Content Protection
• Media Analytics
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5. AMS covers the entire flow from end to end. From submitting a piece of content,
encoding the contet, protecting the content, streaming and distributing the
content to playback of the content to any device.
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7. • Channels and Programs
• Ingest (upload)
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8. CHANNEL
Ingest
URL
CAMERA ENCODER
1080
720
540
396
CHANNEL
Ingest
URL
CAMERA ENCODER
1080
ASSET
ASSET
Program
Dyn
Packaging
1080
720
540
396
Dyn
Packaging
1080
720
540
396
1080
720
540
...
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10. • A No-Code Easy UI
way to use Azure
Media Services.
• Download for free at:
http://aka.ms/asme
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11. 1) Creating a live channel
2) Configuring On-premise Live Encoder (Wirecast)
3) Ingesting Live streams to Azure Media Services
4) Configuring Streaming Reserved Unit
5) Creating a program
6) Publish a program for live streams
7) Playback live streaming on Azure Media Player
8) Stopping live streaming
9) Publish a Live-to-VOD content from archives
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12. Demo

13. bit.ly/TD-LIVE

14. • Single player for all screens and devices
• HTML / JavaScript / CSS development
• HTML5 with fallback to Flash / Silverlight if
needed
• Auto-detect OS and playback of best format
• Customize, Add Plug-ins, and embed it in your
own web or mobile site
• AMP Plug-ins at
• http://amp.azure.net/libs/amp/latest/docs/PLUGINS.html
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15. • Stop the program
• Stop the channel
• Delete the program
• Archive live stream
• Publish live-to-VOD content from archive
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16. • Storage
• Regular Azure storage: LRS, GRS and RA-GRS
• Encoding
• On demand, 2h 1080p movie ~= 3,5 €
• More parallel processing power with media reserved units!
• Streaming: streaming units
• 1 streaming unit ~= 200 Mbps throughput
• ~= 150 €/ month
• Live channels: roughly 2h live stream ~= 13 €
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17. Media Analytics

18. Media Analytics aka
Video AI

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21. • Extract speech content of audio or video files
• Index in full-text search engines or generate captions
• Catalog vast content libraries; Generate transcripts from
multimedia; Keyword Search, Deep linking
• Custom Language Models for non-standard words or
technical jargon
• Formerly known as Azure Media Indexer

23. Customer
app
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24. Demo

29. • Ingestion: iStreamPlanet Cloud Live
• UDP Upload: Aspera Server
• Encoding: Kayak Media Processor
• Protection: EZDRM Hosted PlayReady DRM
• Streaming: Wowza Streaming Engine
• Custom player: Ooyala
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30. Closing

31. • Migration from Access Keys to AAD (RBAC and Service Principal
support)
• Archive Blob Storage for low cost, high availability; Blob-level
tiering; Larger file support now up to 5 TB
• HEVC support
• Media Redactor added for face blurring feature
• Content Moderator for adult/profanity detection
• More reliable, performant cloud live encoder with lower latency
(50% decrease) streaming
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32. • Live Streaming Learning Path:
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/learning-paths/media-services-streaming-
live/
• On-demand Learning Path:
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/learning-paths/media-services-streaming-
on-demand/
• http://aka.ms/amstutorials
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33. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/media-services/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-services/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/topics/media-services
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/home?forum=MediaServices
http://aka.ms/amse
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Media-Services-Explorer/
http://aka.ms/ampdemo
http://aka.ms/amslabs
http://aka.ms/amsvoice
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