I have a media services account with a streaming unit and I have been able to upload a video and dynamically package into various streams. I am trying to have a webpage with the streaming url to be able to serve cross platform iOS, android, desktop etc.. How do I go about it.
PS: I was able to create a page with videojs and progressive download. I am tring to explore the other option with Windows Azure.
Thanks for any help.
Azure Media Services has shipped Azure Media Player which could automatically detect the capability of your browser or device, and request the appropriate streaming format- for instance, it will grab MPEG-DASH stream with EME enabled browser, or HLS for iOS devices. You could give it a try: http://amsplayer.azurewebsites.net/azuremediaplayer.html. Please contact yanmf@microsoft if you want to get into Private Preview for this player. It will be free for use when we launch very soon.
Take a look at JW Player and the Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework. Both offer plenty of playback options for progressive and adaptive streaming to a wide range of browsers and devices.
For desktop : Use OSMF plugin - Adobe + Smooth streaming URL
For iOS : Use HTML5 Video tag+HLS v3 URL
For Android : Use HTML5 Video Tag+HLS v3 URL or Dash.JS with Mpegh Dash URL
For Windows Phone : Use Dash.js + Dash.JS URL
Hope this helps...
Update1: Azure has came up with their own Media player for streaming which will take care of playing video in all the devices.
For Demo and Test - http://www.aka.ms/azuremediaplayer
For Documentaion - http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/15/announcing-azure-media-player/
The bitdash MPEG-DASH player works also out of the box for MPEG-DASH content, here you can see an example stream comming from Azure: http://www.dash-player.com/demo/streaming-server-encoder-support/?mpd=http%3A%2F%2Fsamplescdn.origin.mediaservices.windows.net%2Fe0e820ec-f6a2-4ea2-afe3-1eed4e06ab2c%2FAzureMediaServices_Overview.ism%2Fmanifest(format%3Dmpd-time-csf)&m3u8=undefined&autoplay=true&muted=false&usePoster=true
