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Faiz Mohamed Haneef
Faiz Mohamed Haneef

Reputation: 3596

mp4 streaming problems using azure blob storage

I uploaded a mp4 test video to azure blob storage. But the video performance is too slow and takes a while to start streaming.

Is there anything that can be done to improve performance?

The video size is ~ 49MB http://dzcdn.blob.core.windows.net/dz-cdn-blob/jiju.mp4

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3279

Answers (1)

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30903

Azure Blob Storage does not support streaming it only supports Progressive Download. It is good to have understanding of these. Because it is Progressive download, the player needs to initially fetch some amount of data before start playing it. Although Progressive Streaming, I haven't seen any problems with playing media out of Blob Storage so far (just for the record - the provided video started in just 4 seconds with super quality).

But if you want to cover wider audience, potentiality with slower internet connection, you might want to go and check Azure Media Services. Media Services supports wide range of streaming features including Smooth Streaming, Fixed bitrate streaming, progressive download, Apple HTTP Adaptive streaming (Apple HLS Streaming) etc. And smooth streaming will help with slower connections, while keep the better quality on faster ones.

Upvotes: 5

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