YouTube has pretty sweet stats overlay for any video through their player. I wanted to do the same for Azure Media Services, since it has a plugin framework. You can find the code on GitHub here. Try a live demo at Codepen.io See all of my Azure Media Services tutorials here. Azure Media Services Plugin…
For the last two days I’ve been diving into Azure and IoT devices. In particular, I got Windows 10 IoT installed on a Raspberry Pi 2 using this tutorial from ThingLabs.io. I was going through Connected Nightlight Workshop, and I got stuck when it came to the Sending Telemetry to the cloud portion, I kept running into an…
Picture this scenario: I want to create a website and use GitHub for source control. How can I have Azure websites point to my GitHub account and pull the code from there? Why do this? With this setup, I can make changes to my code base, from any machine in the world and push it…
My Tech Evangelist colleagues, Joe Raio and Brian Sherwin, have create a great set of video tutorials on how to create your own website using Azure. This is part of Microsoft’s Choose to Code campaign, which guides your middle and high school students through a series of online tutorials walking them through the process of creating and…
My peer in DC, Shahed Chowdhuri, put together a great recap of yesterday’s Connect() event. Recap of Connect() announcements: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/11/18/news-and-announcements-from-connect-2015.aspx ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
Here’s a link to register for the event. Microsoft is hosting a free Azure tour across the United States this fall. The first stop will be in Philadelphia on Thuesday October 13th. Scott Guthrie, our Executive VP of Cloud and Enterprise will be giving the keynote. It is going to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101…
You can find parts 1 and 2 of this series here: Deconstructiong Night Trap Rebuilding Night Trap We’ve made a lot of progress with Night Trap this weekend. I started by further compressing the videos on the prototype site, which will allow for smaller and faster downloads, as well as quicker camera switching. I won’t…
My peer in Chicago, David Giard, and I were at the INTX hackathon in Chcago this weekend to help developers with their video and streaming applications. During the trip we decded to record another episode of his video podcast, Technology and Friends. Here’s a full list of the tutorials in this series: Intro to HTML5…
In one of my previous tutorials I showed you how to livestream video from your desktop PC and serve it to viewers on internet. What happens if you already have a video that was recorded though? What problem does this solve? There are a variety of video formats available for streaming online, but it can…
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…