Windows Azure

Media Services Mihai Nadăș

Yonder

November 10 2012

About myself

Copyright

Content is based on Microsoft official

presentations on Windows Azure Media

Services presented at TechEd Australia

Outline

About Windows Azure

The trends in the video world

The WAMS promise

A quick look at the features and the

architecture

DEMO

Conclusions

Windows Azure Released on February 1 2010 (2 years ago)

Microsoft’s Public Cloud proposition

PaaS and IaaS cloud services

Core features Websites

Virtual Machines

Mobile Services

Cloud Services

Big Data

Media Services

Why the need for Media Services?

Defining the problem

Videos explosion

35% of the Internet traffic is Video

Over 50% of Internet traffic will be video in

the next three years

Smarter devices

50M Internet Connected TVs sold this year

150M+ Video capable cell phones

Over 66M Xbox consoles sold to date

YouTube Facts

60 hours of video gets uploaded every minute

4,000,000,000 videos watched every day

800,000,000 monthly visitors

In 2011 more than 1 trillion videos were

viewed, that’s about 140 views for each

person on the planet

Imagine you’d have to architect

YouTube. How would you do it?

Million dollar challenge

Windows Media Services

The features

The features: highlights

Pre-encrypt uploaded content with AES 256

Ecodes to

H.264 or VC-1 for video

AAC-LC, HE-AAC, Dolby DD+, WMA for audio

Packages to MP4, HLS, Smooth Streaming,

HDS, WMV

DRM with PlayReady

Streaming with guaranteed bandwidth, auto

recovery/redundancy and high availability

Arhitecture

APIs and SDKs

Workflow of WAMS

DEMO Media Services

London 2012 Olympics: Case Study

Conclusions

Handling online videos has never been easier

Still in preview, but looks promissing

Cross-platform, so it works in Ruby too

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