Windows Azure Media Services

Hi,
Is it possible to stream video from Windows Azure Media Services?
Thanks.

Hi Georgios,
There is support for using audio overlays in our service - see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/08/21/advanced-encoding-features-in-azure-media-encoder/ for examples. It may be possible to perform pairwise overlays to implement your scenario.
However, it's currently not possible for us to integrate customer-built processor code into our service.
Cheers,
Azure Media Services team

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The error is as expected - the on-demand encoders in our service (Azure Media Encoder, etc.) do not yet support handling of input Assets that are archives from a live stream.
However, we are close to shipping an update to our service that will provide such support. Please watch out for our blog posts in http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/topics/media-services/

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am planning to develop a live streaming app using C# and xaml.
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Santhosh

Hello,
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Here is an example of how to create a custom Media Foundation sync (please note you must write your Media Foundation components using C++ MoCOM. We do not support Media Foundation components written in managed languages):
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Hi John,
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