Building modern media solutions with Windows Azure by @fincooper
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This document discusses building modern media solutions with Windows Azure and Windows 8. It covers using Windows Azure storage for media content, including blobs for files and queues for messaging. It also discusses accessing storage from a web service and building a Windows 8 client app to consume media. The agenda includes demos of Windows Azure storage and a Windows 8 video store app.
Building modern media solutions with Windows Azure by @fincooper
- 1. Building modern media solutions with Windows Azure Karl Ots
- 2. About me • Karl Ots: – Technical Consultant on MS technologies at Symbio – Official Windows 8 trainer – MVP nominee – Co-founder of Young Developers ry • Ask me about: – Usability, mobile, cloud – Windows Azure, Windows 8 and Windows Phone @fincooper
- 3. Agenda • This session is focused on building media applications with Windows Azure and Windows 8 • We’ll talk about storage, communications and client application • Demos
- 4. Storage 4
- 5. Windows Azure Storage • • • • • • • •
- 6. Windows Azure Storage Windows Azure Benefits: Non-relational structured storage Tables Massive scale-out Windows Azure Benefits: Big files Blobs Windows Azure Benefits: Persistent Async Messaging Queues Enqueue, Dequeue Windows Azure SQL Benefits: Relational database Database Highly available Managed for you as a service
- 7. Windows Azure Blobs • • copy between accounts • • • • • • •
- 9. Shared Access Signatures • • • • (1)
- 10. Demo: Accessing Azure Storage from a web service
- 11. Windows 8 Client
- 12. Architecture • Media content stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage Video Storage • Client accesses Storage through Web service that acts as a proxy Web service Clients
- 13. Media purchase flow • User buys videos via IAP • IAP receipts are sent to the web service • Client requests video content • Web service checks if user has bought the content • Web service creates a signed URL (SAS) for the video content and shares that to theclient • Client accesses the video content via the signed URL
- 14. Consuming the video • Download the video via Background Transfer • Any encrypting/decrypting/ licence checking if needed • Play the video in MediaElement control • Customize the control if necessary • Enhance with Windows 8 features • Play To • Subtitles • Multi-audio support • Roamed settings
- 15. Demo: Windows 8 Client 17
- 16. Demo: Moomins video store 18
- 17. Q&A
- 18. Further reading • TechEd NA 2012 AZR306 - Windows Azure Storage: How It Works, Best Practices, and Future Directions • Build 2012 3-035 Building Rich Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services • fincooper.azurewebsites.net
- 19. EXTRA: Media Services “Build-On” Media Partners and Customers Partner CDNs Azure CDN “Build-In” Partner Media Processors Origin Caching