Reduce your streaming bandwidth using Azure Media Services filters
In times of high bandwidth utilization, you may wish to temporarily restrict the bitrates that are available in a streaming manifest to provide your customers a better streaming experience. Typically when encoding video with Azure Media Services, multiple streams with different bitrates are created. This allows clients with different connection speeds to select the most appropriate bandwidth for playback. Under normal circumstances this provides the best streaming experience for most clients. However, to reduce the bitrates offered you can use filters to temporarily limit the bandwidth that clients select for streaming.Azure Media Services Github for 3rd party player framework samples
Media Services supports standards based streaming protocols including MPEG-DASH, and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Customers have the option of choosing from many available player frameworks on the market to meet their delivery and unique application needs. Often, customers need to choose an open source framework that runs on specific device or is supported in a favorite Javascript framework. Or they need the power of a commercial player framework with enhanced features, compliance, and support. The new 3rd-party player samples repo is a great place to start, contribute and learn what is available to use with Azure Media Services live and on-demand streaming.
