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.

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

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.0.1.0 (July 28, 2017) brings the following feature and improvement :

• Supports a new preset for Media Encoder Standard : "Content Adaptive Multiple Bitrate MP4"
  • This is an automatic preset which muxes the audio stream in each MP4 file
  • Designed for Streaming and Progressive Download
  • This is now the default preset
  • More info here
• Fixes a bug that was preventing AMSE to connect to other environment than Azure Global

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.

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

Contact: [email protected]

Version 4.0.0.0 (June 22, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication for Media Services
  • See the blog announcement for more information
  • Two modes are supported: Interactive authentication (recommended), and Service Principal
  • Support for Azure Global, Azure in China, Azure in Germany, US Government and custom settings
  • Adds support for British English and Mexican Spanish in Indexer v2
• More reliable upload and download. The following settings are exposed: parallel transfer thread count and number of concurrent transfers (in Options). Default is one transfer process in the transfer tab.
• Media Services SDK updated to 4.0.0.4, with ADAL support. Storage SDK updated to 8.1.4.0.
• Fixes several bugs

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.

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

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.49.0.0 (June 5, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for the Russian language in Indexer v2 preview
• Provides a way to hide the taskbar notifications
• Default to https for Azure Media Player and streaming URLs
• Force the use of Internet Explorer for previewing a live channel (because Flash or Silverlight is required for smooth streaming)
• Displays the URL generation option dialog box in all cases
• Fixes several bugs and crashes

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.

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

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.48.0.0 (March 8, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :

• The default preset for Media Encoder Standard (MES) is the new automatic "Adaptive Streaming" preset.
  • It autogenerates a bitrate ladder (bitrate-resolution pairs) based on the input resolution and bitrate. The auto-generated preset will never exceed the input resolution and bitrate. For example, if the input is 720p at 3Mbps, output will remain 720p at best, and will start at rates lower than 3Mbps.
  • See the documentation
• Japanese UI
  • This version includes Japanese UI resources. AMSE will be displayed in Japanese if the selected language of Windows is Japanese
  • Language can be forced by launching the command line "AMSExplorer.exe JA"
  • Thanks to shigeyf for the translation
• Asset files can be sorted by clicking the column
• New option to export asset(s) information to a CSV file (in addition to Excel)
• OCR : fix a bug with language preset for Chinese or Serbian languages
• Better support for inserting black video with MES
• Code change to better support pre-fragmented assets
• Removed some analytics pre-check as MES encoded assets are supported as input for most analytics
• Added code to check asset size regarding the media reserved unit type. This is documented in the quotas and limitations article
• Other bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.47.2.0 (January 16, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :

• Update for Content Moderator (private preview) which uses a new configuration JSON.
• Fixes an issue with output minute multiplier calculation.
• In some cases, a warning message was incorrectly displayed when creating a locator.

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.47.0.0 (January 11, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for the new auto scaling Standard Streaming Endpoint and new enhanced CDN configuration. See the announcement here
  • Provides an option to migrate a streaming endpoint from Classic to Standard.
  • Use the new names : Standard, Classic and Premium.
  • Support for the new CDN enhanced configuration : CDN type (Verizon Standard, Verizon Premium, Akamai Standard) and profile.
• Support for pre-fragmented output when using Azure Media encoders.
  • The output from encoding can be fragmented for better streaming performance.
  • Can be configured in the task/job option.
• Azure Media Analytics update. Support for private preview of Video Annotation. Update to Media Indexer v2 for better language name description.
• Update related to the new pricing model for encoding
  • Media Encoder Standard dialog box : the output minute multiplier is calculated and displayed, and the price per input minute is estimated.
• Source code and UI has been rearchitectured for multilanguage support (some strings have been extracted to resources ; this work is not complete yet).
• Media Services SDK updated to version 3.8.0.5.

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.46.1.0 (December 2, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :

• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.46.0.0 (November 21, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for new “Blob storage accounts” including hot and cool tiers
  • Only for additional (attached) storage accounts
  • Primary storage account still needs to be regular storage account and only LRS/GRS/GRS-RA is supported
  • Uploading to new blob storage accounts is supported
• New dialog box when a single file or multiple files are uploaded
  • User can select the destination storage account, storage encryption or not, single asset option
• Update to Azure Media Telemetry
• Support for JSON semaphore file in Watchfolder
• Added support for Japanese in Media Indexer v2
• Documentation links update
• Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.8.0.3
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.45.0.0 (November 14, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :

• Update for Media Encoder Standard (MES)
  • Update to audio only presets
  • Multi asset input support (for stitching)
  • Video rotation mode
• Minor update to Azure Media Analytics
• Dynamic Encryption
  • It's now possible to select an existing delivering policy and key authorization policy in Dynamic Encryption Wizard and Asset info, as it is recommended to reuse existing policies.
• File name check when uploading a file
• Support for calling an API in Watchfolder (to call an Azure logical app, for example)
• Bug fixes, links update

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.44.1.0 (September 9, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :

• New Import from SAS Container Path option
  • AMS Explorer now generates SAS locators that include the list permission
  • A SAS Container Path can be used to import an asset to the current AMS account. This is useful to share multiple files asset or a live archive with another user using only one URL.
• Additional advanced features with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
  • Insert black video, non interleaved mode for audio streams
• Update to Azure Media Analytics (Redaction, Face detection)
• Bug fixes

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.44.0.0 (September 8, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :

• New Import from SAS Container Path option
  • AMS Explorer now generates SAS locators that include the list permission
  • A SAS Container Path can be used to import an asset to the current AMS account. This is useful to share multiple files asset or a live archive with another user using only one URL.
• Additional advanced features with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
  • Insert black video, non interleaved mode for audio streams
• Update to Azure Media Analytics (Redaction, Face detection)

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.43.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for Azure Media Telemetry (Private Preview - activated on selected accounts)
  • initial configuration, update and deletion (management menu)
  • loading and displaying telemetry data for Streaming Endpoints and Channels
  • Media Services Account ID field added to the logon window
• Video Cropping with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
• Visual Region Editor
  • This editor displays the asset thumbnails and provides a way to define the cropping region for MES, and detection regions for Media Analytics OCR and Motion Detection
  • Supports rectangles and polygones when available
  • Uses the output of an "asset analysis job" which generates 100% resolution thumbnails. Settings can be changed in options.
• New First Quality Bitrate for HLS setting in filters
• New tab in job details that displays the input and output assets
• New single asset output option in advanced processing / process asset(s) with multiple processors
• Locators can be cloned (same ID) when copying an asset between two accounts in two regions
• Credentials can be exported and imported using JSON files
• Fixes an issue with displayed type of multi MP4 files asset
• FairPlay support is GA. Specific icon for FairPlay protected assets
• Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.7.0.1
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.42.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• Detects WebVTT subtitles in the asset and pass them automatically to Azure Media Player
• Support for semaphore files in the watch folder mechanism for multi files asset upload.
  • The semaphore is a XML file, compatible with the ones created by Rozhet. A sample file is provided.
  • When a semaphore file is dropped to the watch folder, AMSE reads and uploads the listed files as a single asset.
• Media Analytics
  • Update to Motion Detection (Media Analytics) to support new settings and features.
  • A future version of AMSE will provide a visual regions editor to define regions for OCR and Motion Detection
  • Update to other media analytics processors to display the JSON generated configuration
• In the tranfer tab, it's possible to manage dynamically the number of concurrent transfers : 1/2/3/4/unlimited
• New option to upload file(s) to asset(s) from the asset menus
• Adds a resize anchor to several Windows
• Adds support for manifest generation with m4a files
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.41.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• Support for Apple FairPlay content protection
  • See the announcement
  • Note : you can run the Dynamic Encryption wizard several times if you want to setup multiple content protection schemes. For example : PlayReady/Widevine for DASH, PlayReady for Smooth and FairPlay for HLS. It's not possible to setup two different encryption schemes for the same protocol.
  • Note : FairPlay uses a key which is different from the CENC key. So it's not possible to have the same key id for the CENC and FairPlay keys.
• Azure Media Video OCR private preview. Supported languages includes Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
  • See the blog post
• Azure Media Content Moderator private preview
  • See the blog post
• Other Media Analytics update
  • Minor UI update
  • New option to copy the subtitles generated by Indexer to the source asset (copy is done by AMSE after the completion of the job)
  • If the source asset contains a primary file which is not an audio/video file, AMSE proposes to change the primary file to an audio/video file in order to take it as a source by the processor.
• Support for custom AES key delivery URL when key is delivered by AMS
  • used by some customers in order to cache the key with a CDN
• Adds support for Ignore708Captions setting for live channels
• Critical performance improvement in the live tab when listing programs related to channel
• New features for transfers : transfers can be cancelled, and completed transfers can be cleared
• Fixed some issues with live archive copy. Better displays and manages the fragmented flag, and displays some warning when doing live archive copy
• Reorganization of the asset menu
• Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.6.0
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.40.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• Media Analytics Update
  • See the Media Analytics announcement for NAB2016
  • Azure Media Indexer 2 Preview. Supported languages includes: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Arabic
  • Minor update to Emotion Detection UI
  • Available also as public preview : face detection, video thumbnails, motion detection
• Support of Editing Decision List (EDL) in live stream/archive subclipping UI and Media Encoder Standard UI
  • this allows some basic editing of the source asset when doing encoding or live extraction
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.39.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• Multiple selection to update settings in batch mode
  • Live channels, programs and streaming endpoints can be updated using multiple selection
• New setting to display related/none/all programs in the live tab
  • Useful to increase UI performance when working on channels
• Added Progressive Download protocol for Dynamic Storage Decryption
• Azure Storage Import: new option to create one asset for each file selected
• Additional workflows for Premium Encoder (from tutorial)
• Update to manifest generation
• Fixes an issue with Media Encoder Standard overlay
• Fixes an issue with job and asset display when a parent asset has been deleted
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.38.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• New Overlay feature now available for Media Encoder Standard
  • Single asset mode (image must be in the source asset)
• Update to media analytics (private preview)
• Content protection minor updates
  • Use of BaseLicenseAcquisitionUrl for Widevine and AES. The key ID not stored in the policy.
  • UI update to specify the authorization policy option name
  • Button to remove/delete an authorization policy option
• Option to display and edit the AlternateId property for assets
• Media Services SDK updated to 3.5.3
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

New! There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

Version 3.37.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :

• A way to change the video index and audio indexes and languages for an existing encoding live channel (RTP)
• Update to Media Encoder Standard dialog box
  • Update to thumbnails (percentage mode)
  • Support for PreserveResolutionAfterRotation flag
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

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

New! There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Contact: [email protected]

This update brings the following features and improvements :

• New Live Archive Integrity check. This feature checks the timestamps in the manifest and the segments in the blob storage for a live archive. It will detect timestamps in overlap or gap, and missing segments.
• Support for disable auto de-interlacing setting with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
• New feature to check and fix manifests which have a wrong systemBitrate attribute
• Channels, Programs and Streaming Endpoints can be sorted by clicking a column
• Update to support latest Azure Media Player update (PlayReady and Widevine tokens)
• Fixes an issue with text format when copying a preset from Chrome to Explorer
• Fixes an issue as InstallShield was not shipping the right version of some libraries
• Better dialog box for selecting a folder
• Bug fixes and improvements

Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.

A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]

This update brings the following features and improvements :

• New manifest generation feature : if an asset contains one or several MP4 files without a manifest (.ISM), user can generate a manifest and review it. New button is located in asset info/files tab.
• Bulk ingest update :
  • Added support for Signiant Flight. New UI to specify the Signiant API Key and Server. The sigcli.exe command line is generated.
  • Added AzCopy command line generation
• Encoding Reserved Units (Basic/Standard/Premium) renamed to Media Reserved Units (S1/S2/S3)
• Support for new silent audio track generation setting with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
• Added SAS locator information in the "Export to Excel" feature
• Live Encoding preset is displayed in the grid for live encoding channels
• Bug fixes and improvements