How to get a Media Processor instance

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Overview

Media Processors are a component that handles a specific video or audio processing task, such as encoding, format conversion, encrypting, or decrypting media content. All tasks submitted to Media Services require a media processor to encode, encrypt, or convert the video or audio content.

Azure media processors

The following topic provides lists of media processors:

Note

When accessing entities in Media Services, you must set specific header fields and values in your HTTP requests. For more information, see Setup for Media Services REST API Development.

Connect to Media Services

For information on how to connect to the AMS API, see Access the Azure Media Services API with Azure AD authentication.

Get a media processor

The following REST call shows how to get a media processor instance by name (in this case, Media Encoder Standard).

Request:

GET https://media.windows.net/api/MediaProcessors()?$filter=Name%20eq%20'Media%20Encoder%20Standard' HTTP/1.1
DataServiceVersion: 1.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 3.0;NetFx
Accept: application/json
Accept-Charset: UTF-8
User-Agent: Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services
Authorization: Bearer <token>
x-ms-version: 2.19
Host: media.windows.net

Response:

. . .

{
   "odata.metadata":"https://media.windows.net/api/$metadata#MediaProcessors",
   "value":[
      {
         "Id":"nb:mpid:UUID:ff4df607-d419-42f0-bc17-a481b1331e56",
         "Description":"Media Encoder Standard",
         "Name":"Media Encoder Standard",
         "Sku":"",
         "Vendor":"Microsoft",
         "Version":"1.1"
      }
   ]
}