Releases: Azure/Azure-Media-Services-Explorer
Explorer 4.0.1.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 4.0.1.0 (July 28, 2017) brings the following feature and improvement :
- Supports a new preset for Media Encoder Standard : "Content Adaptive Multiple Bitrate MP4"
- This is an automatic preset which muxes the audio stream in each MP4 file
- Designed for Streaming and Progressive Download
- This is now the default preset
- More info here
- Fixes a bug that was preventing AMSE to connect to other environment than Azure Global
Explorer 4.0.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here, there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer and also some tutorials.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 4.0.0.0 (June 22, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication for Media Services
- See the blog announcement for more information
- Two modes are supported: Interactive authentication (recommended), and Service Principal
- Support for Azure Global, Azure in China, Azure in Germany, US Government and custom settings
- Adds support for British English and Mexican Spanish in Indexer v2
- More reliable upload and download. The following settings are exposed: parallel transfer thread count and number of concurrent transfers (in Options). Default is one transfer process in the transfer tab.
- Media Services SDK updated to 4.0.0.4, with ADAL support. Storage SDK updated to 8.1.4.0.
- Fixes several bugs
Explorer 3.49.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.49.0.0 (June 5, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for the Russian language in Indexer v2 preview
- Provides a way to hide the taskbar notifications
- Default to https for Azure Media Player and streaming URLs
- Force the use of Internet Explorer for previewing a live channel (because Flash or Silverlight is required for smooth streaming)
- Displays the URL generation option dialog box in all cases
- Fixes several bugs and crashes
Explorer 3.48.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.48.0.0 (March 8, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :
- The default preset for Media Encoder Standard (MES) is the new automatic "Adaptive Streaming" preset.
- It autogenerates a bitrate ladder (bitrate-resolution pairs) based on the input resolution and bitrate. The auto-generated preset will never exceed the input resolution and bitrate. For example, if the input is 720p at 3Mbps, output will remain 720p at best, and will start at rates lower than 3Mbps.
- See the documentation
- Japanese UI
- This version includes Japanese UI resources. AMSE will be displayed in Japanese if the selected language of Windows is Japanese
- Language can be forced by launching the command line "AMSExplorer.exe JA"
- Thanks to shigeyf for the translation
- Asset files can be sorted by clicking the column
- New option to export asset(s) information to a CSV file (in addition to Excel)
- OCR : fix a bug with language preset for Chinese or Serbian languages
- Better support for inserting black video with MES
- Code change to better support pre-fragmented assets
- Removed some analytics pre-check as MES encoded assets are supported as input for most analytics
- Added code to check asset size regarding the media reserved unit type. This is documented in the quotas and limitations article
- Other bug fixes
Explorer 3.47.2.0
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 3.47.2.0 (January 16, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :
- Update for Content Moderator (private preview) which uses a new configuration JSON.
- Fixes an issue with output minute multiplier calculation.
- In some cases, a warning message was incorrectly displayed when creating a locator.
Explorer 3.47.0.0
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 3.47.0.0 (January 11, 2017) brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for the new auto scaling Standard Streaming Endpoint and new enhanced CDN configuration. See the announcement here
- Provides an option to migrate a streaming endpoint from Classic to Standard.
- Use the new names : Standard, Classic and Premium.
- Support for the new CDN enhanced configuration : CDN type (Verizon Standard, Verizon Premium, Akamai Standard) and profile.
- Support for pre-fragmented output when using Azure Media encoders.
- The output from encoding can be fragmented for better streaming performance.
- Can be configured in the task/job option.
- Azure Media Analytics update. Support for private preview of Video Annotation. Update to Media Indexer v2 for better language name description.
- Update related to the new pricing model for encoding
- Media Encoder Standard dialog box : the output minute multiplier is calculated and displayed, and the price per input minute is estimated.
- Source code and UI has been rearchitectured for multilanguage support (some strings have been extracted to resources ; this work is not complete yet).
- Media Services SDK updated to version 3.8.0.5.
Explorer 3.46.1.0
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 3.46.1.0 (December 2, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :
- Bug fixes
Explorer 3.46.0.0
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 3.46.0.0 (November 21, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for new “Blob storage accounts” including hot and cool tiers
- Only for additional (attached) storage accounts
- Primary storage account still needs to be regular storage account and only LRS/GRS/GRS-RA is supported
- Uploading to new blob storage accounts is supported
- New dialog box when a single file or multiple files are uploaded
- User can select the destination storage account, storage encryption or not, single asset option
- Update to Azure Media Telemetry
- Support for JSON semaphore file in Watchfolder
- Added support for Japanese in Media Indexer v2
- Documentation links update
- Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.8.0.3
- Bug fixes
Explorer 3.45.0.0
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 3.45.0.0 (November 14, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :
- Update for Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Update to audio only presets
- Multi asset input support (for stitching)
- Video rotation mode
- Minor update to Azure Media Analytics
- Dynamic Encryption
- It's now possible to select an existing delivering policy and key authorization policy in Dynamic Encryption Wizard and Asset info, as it is recommended to reuse existing policies.
- File name check when uploading a file
- Support for calling an API in Watchfolder (to call an Azure logical app, for example)
- Bug fixes, links update
Explorer 3.44.1.0
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 3.44.1.0 (September 9, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :
- New Import from SAS Container Path option
- AMS Explorer now generates SAS locators that include the list permission
- A SAS Container Path can be used to import an asset to the current AMS account. This is useful to share multiple files asset or a live archive with another user using only one URL.
- Additional advanced features with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Insert black video, non interleaved mode for audio streams
- Update to Azure Media Analytics (Redaction, Face detection)
- Bug fixes