Azure-Media-Services-Explorer

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC.
For more information regarding the changes between AMS v2 and v3, read this article.
This application requires .Net Framework v4.8 (included in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update).
Please report bugs or crashes here (preferred) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.2.0.5 (July 17, 2020) brings the following features and improvements:

• An output can be added to an existing Transform
• Client manifest (.imsc) can be generated and stored as a blob
  • code change to reference the client manifest in server manifest
  • in asset tools : option to list all published assets and add client manifest when needed
• Nugget packages and documentation update, code cleanup
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC.
For more information regarding the changes between AMS v2 and v3, read this article.
This application requires .Net Framework v4.8 (included in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update).
Please report bugs or crashes here (preferred) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.2.0.4 (June 29, 2020) brings the following features and improvements:

• Display the content key policies in a new tab
• Client manifest (.imsc) can be generated and stored as a blob
• Support for the API access JSON data generated by the Azure portal
• Bug fixes (subscriptions browsing, crash when doing a drag and drop of file or folder in the asset grid)

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC.
For more information regarding the changes between AMS v2 and v3, read this article.
This application requires .Net Framework v4.8 (included in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update).
Please report bugs or crashes here (preferred) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.2.0.2 (June 13, 2020) brings the following features and improvements:

• Application moved to .Net Framework v4.8. You may loose the list of AMS accounts in the login window after the upgrade. To avoid this, export your entries from v5.0.x.x and reimport them in v5.2.0.x.
• Update to Live Transcription with support of additional regions and additional languages (more details later this month)
• Generation of test token now uses the selected DRM key
• New icon for AMSE v5
• Content key policy : add support for OpenID Connect
• Removed the deprecated storage analytics (not in the new Storage SDK)
• Bug fixes (FairPlay rental duration, Live archive duration, ...)
• Code optimizations, SDKs update

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.14.0 (June 2, 2020) brings the following features and improvements :

• Fixes FairPlay rental duration unit

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.16.0 (March 16, 2020) brings the following features and improvements:

• Support for Live Transcriptions (which is in preview in West Us 2 region)
• Visual Studio Solution : migrated from packages.config to PackageReference

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.13.0 (February 27, 2020) brings the following features and improvements :

• Updated deprecation notices for some processors
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.15.0 (January 10, 2020) brings the following features and improvements:

• Updated with the new v2.0.4 Azure Media SDK
  • Support for Job start and end times display. Duration of jobs are also displayed.
  • Support for the new FairPlay dual expiry settings (rentals)
  • New ContentAwareEncoding MES preset (GA)
• Asset copy feature has been introduced. It can be used to copy one or several assets to the same or a different AMS account. It supports VOD and live archive assets. The destination storage account attached to the account can also be selected.
• Optimization of REST calls for the background assets listing
• When submitting a job, the output asset name can now be customized
• A short GUID of 10 characters is now used as uniqueness
• Displays an example of Az Cli syntax at start
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.12.0 (January 9, 2020) brings the following features and improvements :

• Updated parameters for Media Indexer v1
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.14.0 (December 6, 2019) brings the following features and improvements:

• It's now possible to select an existing asset as an output of a new job. It allows to output several jobs to the same asset.
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.11.0 (December 6, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Updated retirement notice for some processors with a link
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.13.0 (November 26, 2019) brings the following features and improvements:

• AMSE uses a new way to generate asset name for output asset. Output asset name is now based on source asset name + Transform name + a short random GUID. This should make the search for assets easier : for example, using the search option "Asset name (starts with)" and specifying the source asset name should now return related output assets too.
• Nugget packages update
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.12.0 (October 14, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• New empty asset creation feature
• Now it is possible to configure some advanced options for new assets, like the container name
• Portions of the code moved to Async for better UI responsiveness (work on going)
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.10.0 (October 14, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Retirement notice for some processors
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.11.0 (September 20, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Multi DRM (with Apple FairPlay) support when creating a locator
• Better High DPI support (for Windows 10), several UI updates
• Portions of the code moved to Async for better UI responsiveness (work on going)
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.10.0 (September 9, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Subclipping (preview) - for live and vod, with codec copy or transcoding
• Better High DPI support (for Windows 10), several UI updates
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.9.0 (September 9, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Retirement notice for some processors
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.9.0 (August 23, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Adds an option to create an Audio and Video streams copy preset for Media Encoder Standard
• Fixes an issue with REST v2 call (deadlock)
• All NuGet packages were updated to latest version

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2 (old API).
AMSE for the new AMS v3 API can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.8.0 (August 23, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Updated the query to list JPG assets for Slate insertion with live encoding channels
• Updated offline documentation

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is Azure Media Services Explorer v5 for the new AMS v3 API.

You can run AMSE for v2 and AMSE for v3 side by side on the same PC. This is recommended for several reasons : for example, media reserved units cannot be managed with v3, and some v2 objects are not seen in v3 (live channels and programs).

For more information regarding the changes between v2 and v3, read this article.

Please report bugs or crashes here (please mention v5 version) or contact [email protected].

Version 5.0.7.0 (July 30, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Add an option in 'Transforms & Jobs' tab to scale media reserved units using old AMS v2 REST API
• There is now a way to generate a DRM token from Asset Information / Content Protection tab
• UI update to make it more different from v4
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.

This version is for AMS v2.
AMSE for AMS v3 can be found here.

A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.3.7.0 (July 22, 2019) brings the following features and improvements :

• Updated the query to get workflow assets for Premium Encoder UI
• Updated offline documentation