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Windows Azure Media Services (Media Services)

The topics in this section provide information about developing applications with Windows Azure Media Services. Media Services form an extensible cloud-based platform that enables developers to build scalable media management and delivery applications. This topic provides a content map to available Media Services content on MSDN and other related sites.

Important
For information about the current availability of Media Services Preview, see Media Services Status on Twitter. For information on recent changes between releases, see Media Services Release Notes To interact with the Media Services team, and learn more about current and upcoming releases, see the Media Services Forum.

Important

For information about the current availability of Media Services Preview, see Media Services Status on Twitter.

For information on recent changes between releases, see Media Services Release Notes

To interact with the Media Services team, and learn more about current and upcoming releases, see the Media Services Forum.

Getting Started with Media Services
Media Services Development
Downloads
References
Community, Feedback, and Support
Related Sites

Getting Started with Media Services

Topics in this section help with first-time tasks for Media Services developers. You can learn how to set up your Windows Azure account for Windows Azure Media Services, how to configure Visual Studio for development, and how to accomplish basic programming tasks.

Topic	Description
About Windows Azure Media Services	Gives a brief technical and architectural introduction to Media Services.
How to Use Windows Azure Media Services	Describes how to set up Media Services on a Windows Azure account, and then shows a number of common developer tasks that help you start programming with Media Services.
Getting Started with the Media Services SDK for .NET	A tutorial for first-time Media Services developers showing how to do simple programming tasks at each stage of development: ingest an asset, manage an asset, encode an asset, and then deliver (download) the output asset from the encoding job.

Media Services Development

Topics in this section are for Media Services developers. There are two series showing how to build applications with Media Services. One shows how to develop using the Media Services SDK, while the other shows how to develop by making programmatic calls using the Media Services REST API. The second series is for developers who do not want to use the SDK, or who want to develop applications using non-.NET programming languages. There is also a download of code examples packaged as a Visual Studio project.

Topic	Description
Building Applications with the Media Services SDK for .NET	This content series helps developers with common how-to development tasks for building Media Services applications using the Media Services SDK.
Building Applications with the Windows Azure Media Services REST API	This content series helps developers with common how-to development tasks for building Media Services applications using the Media Services REST API.

Downloads

This sections lists downloads for Media Services developers.

Topic	Description
Media Services SDK for .NET	Contains an installer package for the Media Services SDK for .NET developers.
Media Services SDK Code Examples Project Download	This download from the MSDN code gallery contains a Visual Studio code project, sample media, and task preset files for development. The code examples in this download accompany the documentation series Building Applications with the Media Services SDK for .NET.
Media Services SDK Getting Started Code Examples	This download from the MSDN code gallery contains a Visual Studio code project that accompanies the tutorial Getting Started with the Media Services SDK for .NET.

References

Topics in this section provide references to support Media Services development.

Topic	Description
Supported Codecs and File Types for Windows Azure Media Encoder	Describes supported file types (codecs, input, and output files) for Media Services.
Media Services SDK Class Library for .NET	The managed reference documentation for the Media Services SDK for .NET.
Windows Azure Media Services REST API Reference	Documentation for REST API programmers. Describes the entities and the URLs that you use to program Media Services.
Task Presets for Windows Azure Media Services	Provides a set of configuration file templates that you use to create programmatic tasks when you develop Media Services applications.
Release Notes: Media Services Preview	Describes known issues and other information for the current Media Services Preview release.

Community, Feedback, and Support

This section provides links to the Media Services forum, support links, and blogs that are a good source of information about Media Services development.

Topic	Description
Media Services Forum	A public forum for Media Services developers. A great place to find out the latest news about Media Services and also to provide feedback to the product team.
Windows Azure Support	Provides support options for Windows Azure, including Media Services.
Media Services Status on Twitter	Indicates availability and status of the Media Services deployment.
Microsoft blogs: Scott Guthrie John Deutscher Nick Drouin Sam Ng Alex Zambelli Vishal Sood Sam Zhang	Blogs by Microsoft developers and team members that discuss Media Services.

Related Sites

This section provides links to related sites and technologies.

Topic	Description
OData.org	Open source site for OData, which is a web protocol for querying and updating data.
IIS Media	Documentation and resource site for Microsoft IIS Media, which is used to deliver content from Media Services applications.
Windows Azure	The primary Windows Azure portal.
Microsoft Expression Encoder 4	Documentation for Microsoft Expression Encoder, which you can use for encoding media assets in Media Services. You can also use the Windows Azure Media Encoder, which is an included server-based encoder that you can access from a Media Services application.

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