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Last week Microsoft announced the new Azure Media Services video player. Here’s the biggest selling point for me: Azure Media Player utilizes industry standards, such as HTML5 (MSE/EME) to provide an enriched adaptive streaming experience. When these standards are not available on a device or in a browser, Azure Media Player automatically uses Flash and Silverlight…
I’m all about web technology for writing cross platform and mobile applications. I’ve put together a list of video resources to get you off the ground with this, regardless of whether or not you’ve ever used HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript. If you can think of others that would be useful, send them my way. HTML5…
I host a podcast called The Indie Dev Podcast where I interview game developers from around the world in 30 minute segments. I’m always fascinated by what people are able to create, and I’m even more curious about how they make these games happen. I store the most recent episodes of the podcast on…
Jason Seuss, a Principal PM Manager on the Azure Media Services team gave a great overview of this on the Azure blog. I’d advise you to read my previous two blog posts to get you prepped for the actual streaming. For those of you nto familiar with the technology, I gave a 10 minute overview…
In the previous tutorial, I gave a high-level overview of HTML5 video and many of the transport standards that we can use. In this lesson, I’ll cover the way we can ingest our content using a video recording tool, as well as ways to encrypt or protect our video so that only viewers with permission…
This is part of an ongoing series of content that I’ll be writing about using Azure Media Services to create and consume HTML5 video. Ever want to create your own Twitch.tv-like app for livestreaming your work? How about your own YouTube-esque program for playing back your previously recorded video? With Azure Media Services, you…
Source code: GitHub Live demo: http://pokemonwebaudio.azurewebsites.net/ I started working with polymer, to get a feel for what it was all about. Here’s how Google describes it: Web Components usher in a new era of web development based on encapsulated and interoperable custom elements that extend HTML itself. Built atop these new standards, Polymer makes it easier and…
TLDR: HDInsight is Microsoft’s flavor of hadoop. It’s used to collect massive amounts of data at once, and worry about how it gets stored, sorted, and visualized at a later time. I’m giving a talk to MBAs at Villanova University later this week, and I’m covering HDInsight. In preparing my notes, I wrote an outline…
I get this question all of the time, and I end up answering it in email on a pretty consistent basis, so I thought it was about time I made a post to point developers towards. What is the team looking for? They are looking largely for MEDIA applications. Take a look at what is…