Explorer 3.42.0.0

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