My third (and last) talk at the SELA Developer Practice was about Windows Azure Media Services. If you haven't explored it yet, it's a SaaS offering for uploading, encoding, managing, and delivering media to a variety of devices, scaled by the power of Windows Azure. A couple of months ago this blog featured a detailed overview of one of the proof-of-concept workflows I built with Windows Azure Media Services , so I won't repeat myself. If you are considering Windows Azure Media Services...
During the last few weeks I have been involved in a very interesting project with lots of potential, using Windows Azure Media Services . In a nutshell, Windows Azure Media Services supports encoding, management, and streaming of media from Windows Azure, in a completely hosted solution. The client requested a proof-of-concept end-to-end solution that involves uploading existing media assets to Windows Azure, encoding them to smooth streaming formats, and delivering them to an audience using Windows...