Streaming with Azure media services

Question

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.

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.