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Use media services to encode and stream media

Use media services to encode and stream media - Azure Tutorial

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Use media services to encode and stream media

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- [Instructor] Azure Media Services makes it easy to use high definition video encoding and streaming services to reach your audience on today's devices. It also enables you to use state-of-the-art AI to extract rich metadata from your video content. These are some of the media service tools we'll look at in this video. Video encoding, streaming, the Video Indexer, content protection and DRM, Azure CDN, and the Azure Media Player. When you publish a video for others to watch, it's important to know what encoding to use. Video encoding is the process of converting a video into a different format. For example, if you have an AVI file but the streaming platform requires an MP4 file, you need to encode it accordingly. For web content, it is common to compress the content during encoding so that it consumes less space on the web server, lowers the bandwidth costs, and speeds up streaming the content to the consumer. This is also part of the encoding process. Azure Media Services has a wide…

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