Releases: Azure/Azure-Media-Services-Explorer
Explorer 3.34.0.0
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.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Google Widevine license delivery update : packaging is enabled by default, and the JSON license template is visible and editable
- Optimizations for large number of jobs running. Code has been optimized to monitor only visible jobs and increase the job polling time when needed. This should dramatically improve performances for accounts with a large number of running jobs
- Thumbnails generation is now available in Media Encoder Standard UI. The thumbnail generation option in the menu has been moved from AME to MES processor
- Date/time range filtering. A date/time range can be specified for the assets, jobs, channels and programs queries.
- It's now possible to change the encoding preset on an existing live channel
- Asset filters copy option. When a program is cloned or an asset is duplicated, there is an option to copy the asset filters. (time start and end values are reset when doing program cloning)
- Icons update
- Bug fixes
Explorer 3.33.0.0
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.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Google Widevine license delivery support (public preview). See this announcement. Feature will continue to improve in the coming releases
- Dynamic encryption wizard update. UI has been fully revisited.
- Content keys and token keys are displayed with a button, to increase security
- Possibility to select Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for asset playback
- More checks on asset sources for Indexer task
- Media Services SDK updated to 3.5.2
- Bug fixes
Explorer 3.32.0.0
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.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- New bulk ingest manifest feature (in transfers tab). Useful if you want to upload assets with an another client application (like Aspera or Signiant). Upload is decoupled from Azure Media Services asset creation. Any application that copies files to Azure Storage can be used.
- a new UI to select files or folder to upload, and to organize the destinations assets
- support for local storage encryption before the upload
- tested with Cloudberry Explorer
- Support for new Media Processors (private preview)
- Adds two audio only profiles for Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Support for Hyperlapse with a speed of 1 (stabilization)
- Optimization for large number of assets or jobs
- This version has been tested on a media services account with 200 000 assets
- Some client side queries are disabled with an account with more than 10 000 assets or 5 000 jobs
- Better performances for jobs and assets delete processes
- More checks (channel and program names, channel properties, Streaming endpoints creation), file overwrite warning before download
- Bug fixes (channel name sorting, PlayReady relative date, etc)
Explorer 3.31.0.0
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.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- New asset download to local dialog box. The tool can create folders based on the asset name or asset Id and open them when download is completed.
- Better performance to display assets details in the grid (cache in memory)
- Optimization for large number of assets or jobs. Search in assets/jobs/channels/programs are now done on all items, not the last 1000 items (queries have been rewritten to be executed by the back-end when possible). This version has been tested on a media services account with 11000 assets. New option to display programs for all channels.
- When playing-back a content, user can select multiple filters and the no audio-only mode for HLS, and see the preview of the URL. See the recent blog post regarding these new features.
- New software update UI. Explorer can auto update when a new release is published. Released notes are displayed.
- Azure Storage settings dialog box (to activate metrics, and change the default storage in order to allow byte range access for progressive download)
- Option to Delete all visible assets, or to delete all visible jobs
- More tasks details in job reports.
- JSON and XML syntax check in Premium Workflow, MES and in multi processors dialog box
- Task option in multiple processors, option to process all visible assets
- Price is displayed for MES jobs
- Live archiving uses now JSON presets
- New updated Media Services documentation (5 CHM files), link to released notes
- Requires .NET 4.6
- Bug fixes
Explorer 3.30.0.1
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.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for Widevine Modular DRM header insertion for DASH output with Common Encryption. There is now an option in the tool to add a Widevine header when adding a dynamic encryption policy. A license acquisition URL can be optionally specified (a third party service is needed to deliver the licenses, see this blog post).
- Update to the way Azure Media Player is called for Widevine protected content (protection=widevine or protection=drm)
- New asset file Edit feature in asset info/asset files. For example, a manifest or a subtitle file can be directly edited on-line
- Added a button to pass XML data to Premium Workflow Encoder processor (to set transcodeSource or setRuntimeProperties data)
- Media Services SDK updated to 3.5.1
- Bug fixes
- rereleased 3.30.0.0 to 3.30.0.1 to fix an issue with empty Widevine URL
Explorer 3.29.0.0
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.
Contact: [email protected]
Please read the today's Azure Media Services new services and partnerships at IBC 2015 and the blog post on sub-clipping and live archive extraction with Media Encoder Standard.
And since today, you can encode Apple ProRes and QuickTime source videos with Media Encoder Standard!
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Sub-clipping and live archive extraction is now available in the tool
- New dialog box to select the streaming endpoint, filter and format before playing a content or coping the streaming URL to clipboard
- Update to Live Encoding (custom preset)
- Update to the Media Encoder Standard interface (new option to trim the source, update to the JSON settings for sub-clipping)
- Various improvements (note that default locator duration is now 10 years)
- Several critical bug fixes
Explorer 3.28.0.0
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 recent blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Code updated to use Media Services SDK v3.4.0.0 and Visual Studio 2015
- The new installer checks the requirement for .NET 4.5.2
- Moved all API calls from REST to .NET SDK for asset and global filters
- New options to search in Id or name of assets, asset files, locators, jobs, channels and programs
- Option to specify the manifest name for live programs
- Dynamic encryption updates: an external AES key server can be configured, and it's possible to use the same key (key id) for several assets (AES or PlayReady)
- Added support for Premium Live Encoding (in private preview)
- Fixes to subclipping (currently in private preview)
- UI updates and bug fixes
Explorer 3.27.0.0
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 recent blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This tool is now available as a package on Chocolatey.
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Asset information export to Excel. You can now export assets data to Excel (asset name, ID, streaming URL, expiration) then use Excel to analyse the data (with a pivot table). Please give us some feedback!
- Update to the logging window (timestamps and more details)
- Switched to JSON presets for Media Encoder Standard which is now GA.
- Subclipping support (currently in private preview)
- UI updates
- Several bug fixes
Explorer 3.26.0.0
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 recent blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Content protection:
- support for OpenID Connect Discovery Document URL
- support for importing a PlayReady policy XML file
- New Channel and Program cloning features : channels and programs can be cloned to another Media Services account. For a program, locators can be cloned (with same GUID if the destination account is in another region), and dynamic encryption and delivery settings can be replicated too.
- Improvements to dynamic manifests. Track filtering can be imported from another filter
- Multiselection for asset files operations
- New copy options for asset copy/merge
- Watch folder workflow: output assets are renamed
- Performance improvement and bug fixes (UI, dynamic manifest, live archive copy, content protection)
Explorer 3.25.0.0
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 recent blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- Update to Dynamic Manifest Filters (using the REST API)
- New controls to set timings in Day/Hour/Min/Sec with a slider for asset filters (Raw mode still possible)
- Asset filter reads now the manifest to determine the content duration, scale and timestamp offset. Tested with live streams and archives
- Supported FourCC codecs are listed, track filtering sample has been updated
- New icons, and a way to edit the filters from the menus
- Fix a critical display/performance issue with the asset grid