With Windows Azure media services, you can build workflows for the creation, management, and distribution of media. It offers the built-in flexibility, scalability, and reliability of Windows Azure that we are already used to. You can bring quality media experience for a global audience and build your own YouTube. Features of media services include encoding, conversion, and protection of content and also streaming of media.
Preparing to use media services takes quite a few steps to complete, as follows:
Install Windows Azure media services SDK 1.0 from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=245171.
Start PowerShell and change the directory to the
v1.0
folder of Windows Azure media services.Run the
GetMediaServicesEnv.ps1
script, which creates a certificate and downloads a file containing settings. A new browser window appears, where you have to sign in with your Windows Live ID. You need to install Windows Azure SDK 1.6.If you receive the
GetMediaServicesEnv.ps1...