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DEMO Windows Azure Media Services – how to convert .mp4 to smooth streaming format

This blog will walk-through how you could access Windows Azure Media Services programmatically, and convert a .MP4 file into Smooth Streaming format. Before getting started, you should have the following items prepared:

  • • Create a Media Services account in a new or existing Windows Azure subscription. If you don’t have one, you could check out my blog Getting started with Windows Azure Media Services.
  • • Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (November 2011): [link]
  • • Windows Azure Media Services SDK (June 2012 Preview): [link]
  • • WCF Data Services 5.0 for OData V3: [link]
  • • Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and .NET framework 3.5 SP1 and 4

Now, after installing all these, we could start coding. And you could download the finished code in case you couldn’t follow. Read more here

Getting started with Windows Azure Media Services

This blog shows you how to request for Windows Azure Media Services Preview and create an account through Windows Azure portal.

Sign up for the preview

1. Go to windowsazure.com and obtain a free-trail account or login with your own account.

2. Go to https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures and that’s where you could request for feature preview.  Read the rest of the post…

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