Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Paul Tidwell on Azure

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I saw Paul Tidwell (right) of Falafel speak on Azure at ADNUG last night. His code:

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Stuff said:

  1. What was referred to as Metro applications are now "Windows 8 Store" applications.
  2. Azure media services offers encoding built with IIS Smooth Streaming, MP4, and conversion to Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).
  3. One may get a 90-day free trial of the Azure services.
  4. Download and install the SDK. Version 1.6 of the SDK seemed a lot more stable to Paul than version 1.7 from which he had connectivity issues in Visual Studio.
  5. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh973618.aspx for how to use the API. The code given above is of this.
  6. One may injest video directly at Azure and store it there or, via Azure, provide a front end to a pipeline. Create a new media service in Azure like so:
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