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Video compression ratios and transcoding
I am looking for information on the transcoding process and compression ratios of Microsoft Stream. I understand that when I upload a video that video will undergo a transcoding process that will con...
Thanks for your prompt reply. I have read the article you have provided. It does not actually give any statistics, instead it only gives a general overview. I need more information as my job is a video production specialist and my team needs a platform we can trust to share our videos. I know that people have done comparisons of videos shared via youttube and vimeo by uploading the same video to both platforms and then gathering data to decide which one is better for video quality. I wonder if anyone has done the same for microsoft stream?
Not sure you'll find what you're looking for. The only comparison I have seen is related to Office 365 Video, the more established video service that's being replaced by Stream later in the year.
You can get a deep dive into the mechanics of Microsoft Stream in the presentation here - Learn how Microsoft Stream was built using Azure and you could always check out Azure Media Services accordingly, which provides some of these related services that are mentioned.
Since every video is different, which you will know better than me, how it might be rendered and under what conditions it is played could vary, personally, I'd test Stream with sample content and do an analysis, as part of an evaluation.
You can always sign up for a dev tenant - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev-program to help with this. Also, you'll want to be aware of some of the current limitations like no public (anonymous) access to videos, API access etc., if you don't know about these already.