Microsoft Azure Media Services is an extensible cloud-based platform that enables developers to build scalable media management and delivery applications. Media Services is based on REST APIs that enable you to securely upload, store, encode and package video or audio content for both on-demand and live streaming delivery to various clients (for example, TV, PC, and mobile devices).
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(ResourceGroupNotFound) Resource group '????' could not be found when creating an azure media services account
I'm trying to create a Service Principal account using the instructions here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/stream-files-tutorial-with-api#examine-the-code-that-uploads-encodes-and-streams
However when I run the…

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System.NotSupportedException when trying to create an asset
I am trying to use the Azure MediaService API along with the Azure Storage API in an API Service hosted in Azure.
The user sends the video stream to the service as an HttpPost, the service saves the video as a blob in my Storage account, the media…

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Virus Scanning Uploaded files from Azure Web/Worker Role
We are designing an Azure Website which will allow users to Upload content(MP4,Docx...MSOffice Files) which can then be accessed.
Some video content we will encode to provide several differing quality formats, before it will be streamed (using Azure…

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Turn off Azure Media Services logo in media player
I'm reading the docs for the new Azure Media Player (https://aka.ms/ampdocs) but I still can't figure out how to turn the AMS logo off. Should I be setting
amp.Player.LogoConfig.enabled = false
? That doesn't work for me. Do I set something on…

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Convert .AIB (Audio Media indexer ) file into readable format (String)
I want to parse a .AIB file which I have got in the form of output from Azure media indexer job So that I can read the data in the file and can take out the required information.

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How to upload Stream to Azure Media Services
We're using ASP.NET MVC 4 to allow users to upload video and audio through our website. I would like to use Azure Media Service as the back-end for this.
While following Azure's tutorial, the issue I've run into is that the Azure Media Services SDK…

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Azure Media Service - generate new AES encryption token for playback
I am working on open source community project Azure Media Services Upload and Play Videos in MVC since 2015. I was not using any delivery encryption earlier, so I started working on AES.
In all the source code/samples by Azure Media Services Team, i…

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Azure media services live streaming endpoint hangs in "starting" status
The default live streaming endpoint doesn't start and I can't stop or cancel. The only way to get out of it is to delete the entire resource group. I did it and tried again with the same results. I added 1 streaming unit and enabled the CDN before…

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Organising Azure Media assets in Blob storage
I'm using Azure Media services to ingest/transcode and deliver content for a web application. The same web application uses Blob storage to store user assets.
As it stands, whenever I ingest a new item into AMS I get a new container created in the…

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Creating a Plex Server as a Service using Azure Media Service
I want to create a Plex Media Server as a Service.
The idea is so I can be able to create a Media Server, upload my media content and stream to my Media Center (in my case I tried apple tv with plex connect, iphone plex app and plex web app) using…

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What does a Streaming Locator symbolize in Azure Media Services?
The documentation is over here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/streaming-locators-concept
I'm completely missing the conceptual side though.
Why do we need it, what does it symbolize?
Anyone have experience with Azure…

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Azure Media Service Audio Only
We have begun using the Azure Media Service (AMS) to encode, encrypt and host our videos (MP4) which is working well. However, in addition to videos we have MP3 audio files. Since we are already using the AMS it made sense to put them here as well…

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Azure Media Player does not work with AES protection on iPhone
We are having issues playing a protected with AES (with JWT token authentication) video on iPhone 6 (A1586). The following error arrears:
0x50300000 - The video playback was aborted due a corruption problem
or because the video used features your…

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Create Azure Media Services Asset for a blob already in it's associated storage account
Is it possible to create a Media Services asset and Sas Locator for video files that already exists in Azure Blob Storage? The storage account is the same one that is associated with that Media Services account. Assets.Create() creates a container…

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FFmpeg for the file conversion using URL
i need to be converted from MP4 to AVI. MP4 video are uploaded in window azure blob storage and storage is accessible publicly.
my question when we write the ffmpeg command line. can i give the url of the video which is on blob storage
ffmpeg -i…

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