Thank you! Sounds like a great fit, ping me if you have any questions down the road (my email is just matt at our domain).
Azure Media Services (and other, similar products such as Amazon's media offerings, etc) is a suite of products that ultimately take you from ingesting a video to playing it back, but you're going to do a lot of gluing together parts to get there. While gluing those parts together you're making a lot of decisions around formats, encoding, etc, and let's be honest...those probably won't get revisited soon enough. Our system makes those decisions on the fly based on actual performance data for your viewers.
When you ingest an asset into Mux, we give you a playback ID that's playable in seconds (which, at least imo, is very cool on its own), and you can just use that in your players and go back to making amazing video portals. You can also use that same ID to do things like request smart thumbnails immediately (had to plug that because I spent _way_ too much time on that part of the marketing website).
We do some really cool things behind the scenes around how we encode the assets just-in-time, CDN switching, etc, but ultimately the goal is that you can just wire our API into your CMS and think less about encoding minutia.
Azure Media Services (and other, similar products such as Amazon's media offerings, etc) is a suite of products that ultimately take you from ingesting a video to playing it back, but you're going to do a lot of gluing together parts to get there. While gluing those parts together you're making a lot of decisions around formats, encoding, etc, and let's be honest...those probably won't get revisited soon enough. Our system makes those decisions on the fly based on actual performance data for your viewers.
When you ingest an asset into Mux, we give you a playback ID that's playable in seconds (which, at least imo, is very cool on its own), and you can just use that in your players and go back to making amazing video portals. You can also use that same ID to do things like request smart thumbnails immediately (had to plug that because I spent _way_ too much time on that part of the marketing website).
We do some really cool things behind the scenes around how we encode the assets just-in-time, CDN switching, etc, but ultimately the goal is that you can just wire our API into your CMS and think less about encoding minutia.
Hope that helps!