Persistent encoding job

Question

Can I have persistent encoding job in Azure?

I want to upload video stream into page blob and encode it on the fly when new portion of data is available. Can it be done with azure or I need 3rd party solution like wowza?

Answer 1

Adding to the comments of David Makogon - no, currently you cannot achieve your goal. The current state of Azure Media Services works only for Video-On-Demand. What you need is more like a live streaming.

For live streaming you can use IIS Media Services. You can install IIS Media Services along with the Transform Manager Extension. To almost fully achieve your goal. And you can do this on a Windows Server image of Azure Virtual Machine.

To achieve elasticity and scalability however will not be an easy task.

To conclude - the current state of all Azure services is not 100% suitable for your scenario. And it does not provide out-of-the-box solution for your need. If you find a 3rd party provider that suits your needs today, then just go ahead and test/use it.