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Azure Media Services
A group of Azure services that includes encoding, format conversion, on-demand streaming, content protection, and live streaming services.
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Azure Media Player will only play back video delivered from Azure Media Services. To play it back your MP4 you will need encode it so it is playable via an adaptive streaming format (HLS, DASH, or Smooth). Following is short article on what is needed to convert your file: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/manage-assets-quickstart. And once this is done see the following short article on using Azure Media Player https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/manage-assets-quickstart./