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Azure Media Services enables you to deliver live events to your customers on the Azure cloud. To stream your live events with Media Services, you'll need to set up a live video encoder that converts signals from a camera (or another device, like a laptop) into a contribution feed that is sent to Media Services. The contribution feed can include signals related to advertising, such as SCTE-35 markers. For a list of recommended live streaming encoders, see live streaming encoders.
With Media Services, you can take advantage of dynamic packaging, which allows you to preview and broadcast your live streams in MPEG DASH, HLS, and Smooth Streaming formats from the contribution feed. Your viewers can play back the live stream with any HLS, DASH, or Smooth Streaming compatible players. See the list of tested players and try the Media Services 3rd-party player samples.
When using the pass-through Live Event (basic or standard), you rely on your on-premises live encoder to generate a multiple bitrate video stream and send that as the contribution feed to the Live Event (using RTMP or fragmented-MP4 input protocol). The Live Event then passes the incoming video stream to the dynamic packager (Streaming Endpoint) without any further processing. A pass-through Live Event is optimized for long-running live events or 24x365 linear live streaming.
To use live encoding, configure your on-premises live encoder to send a single bitrate video (up to 32Mbps aggregate) to the Live Event (using RTMP or fragmented-MP4 input protocol). The Live Event transcodes the incoming single bitrate stream into multiple bitrate video streams at varying resolutions. This improves delivery for playback devices with industry standard protocols like MPEG-DASH, Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), and Microsoft Smooth Streaming.
Dynamic encryption enables you to dynamically encrypt your live or on-demand content with AES-128 or any of the three major digital rights management (DRM) systems: Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine, and Apple FairPlay. Media Services also provides a service for delivering AES keys and DRM (PlayReady, Widevine, and FairPlay) licenses to authorized clients. For more information, see dynamic encryption.
Live transcription is a feature you can use with live events that are either pass-through or live encoding. For more information, see live transcription. When this feature is enabled, the service uses the Speech-To-Text feature of Cognitive Services to transcribe the spoken words in the incoming audio into text. This text is then made available for delivery along with video and audio in MPEG-DASH and HLS protocols.
You should use GOP sizes of 2 seconds for live events. You must use GOP sizes of 4 seconds or below for passthrough live events with live transcriptions in order to get correct transcription data. If you choose to use higher GOP size, the transcription data might have defects, e.g. missing content.
The dynamic encryption and DRM features of Azure Media Services has limits to consider when attempting to secure content delivery that includes live transcriptions, captions, subtitles, or timed-metadata.The DRM subsystems, including PlayReady, FairPlay, and Widevine do not support the encryption and licensing of text tracks. The lack of DRM encryption for text tracks limits your ability to secure the contents of live transcriptions, manual inserted captions, uploaded subtitles, or timed-metadata signals that may be inserted as separate tracks.
If you do not follow one of the guidelines above, your subtitles, captions, or timed-metadata text will be accessible as un-encrypted content that could be intercepted or shared outside of your intended client delivery path.This can result in leaked information. If you are concerned about the contents of the captions or subtitles being leaked in a secure delivery scenario, reach out to the Media Services support team for more information on the above guidelines for securing your content delivery.
Create a live event.
When creating the event, you can specify to autostart it. Alternatively, you can start the event when you are ready to start streaming.
When autostart is set to true, the Live Event will be started right after creation. The billing starts as soon as the Live Event starts running. You must explicitly call Stop on the live event resource to halt further billing. For more information, see live event states and billing.
The asset that the live output is archiving to, automatically becomes an on-demand asset when the live output is deleted. You must delete all live outputs before a live event can be stopped. You can use an optional flag removeOutputsOnStop to automatically remove live outputs on stop.
The use of video has become well established in education, from traditional courses to blended and online courses. It has grown both in its diversity of applications as well as its content. Such educational video however is not fully accessible to all students, particularly those who require additional visual support or students studying in a foreign language. Subtitles (also known as captions) represent a unique solution to these language and accessibility barriers, however, the impact of subtitles on cognitive load in such a rich and complex multimodal environment has yet to be determined. Cognitive load is a complex construct and its measurement by means of single indirect and unidimensional methods is a severe methodological limitation. Building upon previous work from several disciplines, this paper moves to establish a multimodal methodology for the measurement of cognitive load in the presence of educational video. We show how this methodology, with refinement, can allow us to determine the effectiveness of subtitles as a learning support in educational contexts. This methodology will also make it possible to analyse the impact of other multimedia learning technology on cognitive load.
Articles published in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant AJET right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
The eight simultaneous Ligue 2 BKT matches usually played on Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. are available individually and in full exclusively on the Le Pass Ligue 1 channel, accessible to all Prime members in France for an additional subscription. In addition, for the 2022-2023 season, the Ligue 2 BKT multiplex will also be available exclusively on Prime Video, at no additional cost. This will be in addition to the Ligue 1 Uber Eats and Ligue 2 BKT matches that Prime members already enjoy as part of their Ligue 1 Pass subscription. The Ligue 2 BKT multiplex, broadcast every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. by Flix Rouah and will include a 30-minute pre-match (matches kick off at 7 p.m.).
Live sport is supported on Amazon Devices with the Prime Video App, Prime Video System Requirements for Computers, and devices connected through the Prime Video app, including Games Consoles with the Prime Video App (PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox One), Set Top Boxes and Media Players with the Prime Video App (Google Chromecast, Orange, Bouygues Telecom, SFR, Free, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (3rd and 4th generations)), Smart TVs with the Prime Video App, Blu-Ray Players with the Prime Video App, Mobile Devices with the Prime Video App iOS or Android (in the latest Prime Video app). For the best live sports viewing experience, watch Ligue 1 on a Fire TV device. For more information, visit:
www.amazon.fr/ligue1.
The Professional Football League makes the broadcasting rights available separately for each country. Prime Video holds the broadcasting rights only for metropolitan France and French territories. The rest of the world is not included.
Prime Video will broadcast 8 out of 10 matches per match round exclusive on the Prime Video Ligue 1 channel. On regular weekend rounds, this usually includes matches at: 21.00 Friday, 17.00 Saturday, and 13.00, 15.00 (4x matches) and 20:45 CET on Sunday, with the best match typically scheduled into the Sunday 21.00 slot with a few midweek rounds during the season. All of these matches will be available to Prime members who have subscribed to the Le Pass Ligue 1 channel (Monthly or Yearly pass).
From July 30, 2022, Prime Video will also broadcast the Ligue 2 BKT multiplex as well as 8 of the 10 matches of each Ligue 2 BKT day. On regular weekend rounds, this usually includes matches at: 19.00 Saturday. All of these matches will be available to Prime members who have subscribed to the Le Pass Ligue 1 channel. To find out about upcoming matches on Prime Video, go to
primevideo.com/ligue1.
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