Streaming or downloading videos from my azure storage

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Streaming or downloading videos from my azure storage

Shewfelt, Matthew 0

I have created a local website as a sort of platform to view my videos and created a way to save bookmarks in the videos, my issue is I can't have all my videos stored on my local machine and therefor have them on azure. I was wondering if there is a way to stream the videos from azure storage blob or even just download quickly. I created a directory to download the videos using this python script but the download speed is just horrendously slow and not worth it.

KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,772 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-06T17:21:30.36+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

I am looking into it. I see that you tried posting a code block or a screenshot but it is not displaying with your post. Can you please try posting it again either in your original post or in a comment. Thanks.
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,772 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-07T06:44:54.4933333+00:00
@Shewfelt, Matthew

You can use Azure Media Services to encode your video into a suitable streaming format and then store it in Blob storage. You can also stream video files directly with Azure Media Services CLI.

This tutorial shows how to easily encode and stream videos on a variety of browsers and devices by using Azure Media Services and the Azure CLI. You can specify input content by using HTTPS or SAS URLs or paths to files in Azure Blob storage.

I also found few articles on the same that you may find helpful:

https://dev.to/poc275/streaming-videos-from-azure-blob-storage-10gj

https://imagekit.io/blog/video-streaming-azure-blob-storage-imagekit/

Let me know if you have any questions.
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2023-04-11T07:31:02.8933333+00:00

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2023-04-18T07:14:37.6233333+00:00

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2023-04-30T16:11:06.8033333+00:00

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KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,772 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-06T17:21:30.36+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

I am looking into it. I see that you tried posting a code block or a screenshot but it is not displaying with your post. Can you please try posting it again either in your original post or in a comment. Thanks.
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,772 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-07T06:44:54.4933333+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew

You can use Azure Media Services to encode your video into a suitable streaming format and then store it in Blob storage. You can also stream video files directly with Azure Media Services CLI.

This tutorial shows how to easily encode and stream videos on a variety of browsers and devices by using Azure Media Services and the Azure CLI. You can specify input content by using HTTPS or SAS URLs or paths to files in Azure Blob storage.

I also found few articles on the same that you may find helpful:

https://dev.to/poc275/streaming-videos-from-azure-blob-storage-10gj

https://imagekit.io/blog/video-streaming-azure-blob-storage-imagekit/

Let me know if you have any questions.
KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,772 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-11T07:31:02.8933333+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew Checking in to see if the comment above help? Let me know. Thanks.
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2023-04-18T07:14:37.6233333+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew Checking in to see if the answer below helped.

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2023-04-30T16:11:06.8033333+00:00

@Shewfelt, Matthew Just checking in to see if the above answer helped. If this answers your query, do click "Accept the answer” for the same, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.

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@Shewfelt, Matthew Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

You can use Azure Media Services to encode your video into a suitable streaming format and then store it in Blob storage. You can also stream video files directly with Azure Media Services CLI.
This tutorial shows how to easily encode and stream videos on a variety of browsers and devices by using Azure Media Services and the Azure CLI. You can specify input content by using HTTPS or SAS URLs or paths to files in Azure Blob storage.

I also found few articles on the same that you may find helpful:

Let me know if you have any questions in the "comments" and I can investigate further. Comment is the quickest way of notifying the experts.

If this helped, please 'Accept answer' so that it can help others in the community facing the same issue.

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