Azure Media Services documentation

Azure Media Services enable you to build media applications using low-latency live streaming, batch encoding, content-protection/DRM, and deliver streaming content to millions of viewers on any device.

Overview

About Azure Media Services (v3)

Overview

About Azure Media Services (v2)

Concept

Azure Media Services (v3) concepts

Download

GitHub samples

Overview

Azure Media Player

Overview

Live streaming

Overview

Encoding

Develop with Media Services SDK

• Develop with Media Services
• GitHub samples
• Browse more samples
• Release notes and announcements

Live streaming

• Live streaming
• Recommended live streaming encoders
• Stream live

Encode at scale

• Learn about cloud encoding with Media Services
• Encode with content aware encoding
• Supported file formats and codecs
• Automatically generate adaptive bitrate encoding

Stream on demand

• Uploading
• Encoding

Encrypt content

• Protection
• Encrypt dynamically with AES-128
• Encrypt dynamically with DRM

Analyze content

• Media analytics
• Face Detect and Redaction

Protocols and specifications

• Timed Metadata in Live Streaming (RTMP & Smooth Streaming)
• Smooth Streaming protocol (MS-SSTR) amendment for HEVC
• Smooth Streaming ingest protocol

Migrate from the v2 API

• Migrate from v2 to v3 overview

Azure Storage

Learn about block blobs and containers

CDN

Use the power of the Azure CDN to stream content at scale with services from Akamai and Verizon or load balance across multiple content delivery networks

Event Grid

Learn how to use Azure Event Grid to react to relevant events

Azure Monitor

Learn how to aggregate and analyze metrics, logs, and traces. Fire alerts and send notifications or call automated solutions.

Azure Event Hubs

Learn how to use Event Hubs to ingest millions of events per second from connected devices and applications.