Is it possible to live-stream Video from Windows Azure

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

_x000D_ Although technically feasible I have a feeling that the bandwidth and storage costs involved would make it uneconomic to do transcoding for this kind of application in the cloud. I'd suggest a better approach would be to encode the video streams locally on an on-site server, then stream them directly from this on-premise server to the client browsers. You'll want to do the math: consider on one hand the cost of bandwidth and compute resources in Azure, versus the cost of an on-site server (together with its care and feeding). If your requirement for on-demand playback covers situations where the manufacturing site is unreachable then it may be sensible to store the historic videos in Blob storage in Azure. Inbound data traffic to Azure is free, so you'd only pay for the outbound data traffic from the on-premise server; if the video has been transcoded into a sensible format this shouldn't be too expensive.