Import your AMS assets
Integrate your existing AMS assets into {user.SERVICENAME} without relocation.
This article walks through the steps needed to integrate existing file assets, that you have hosted and available for streaming in AMS, into MK.IO.
This is done in minimal steps, without any need to relocate, re-process or re-encode your source files.
Import your assets
Three different approaches are possible to reference your first assets in MK.IO.
Whatever the approach, your asset remain in their storage after migration.
Using the MK.IO web interface
- From the MK.IO Dashboard view, go to Assets from the left-hand side menu3
- Select the From a storage account option then fill in the required information:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Storage Account | From the drop down, select the connected Storage Account linked to your MK.IO account, where the hosted assets lives in your Azure Storage Account. |
Storage container | Enter the name of the specific container where the hosted assets lives in your Azure Storage Account. In AMS, each asset is stored in a specific container. You can confirm the storage container name by navigating to the Assets view in AMS, locating your 'output' asset name you need to migrate and copying the name of the 'Storage Link' field. This will typically start with an |
Sub-container (optional) | Enter the name of the sub-container if any. |
Asset name | The unique identifier you want to use in MK.IO for that asset. |
Description | Provide an optional description for that asset. |
Upon asset deletion | Choose whether you want to preserve the container upon asset deletion. |
When you click Add, the files will be uploaded and a new asset will be saved in your list. MK.IO will connect, ingest, and make the content available to be configured for streaming.
Using Azure Media Services Migration tool from MediaKind
All the steps are detailed in Bulk asset migration from AMS storage.
Using Azure Media Services Explorer tool
You can retrieve the AMS Explorer tool in this public GitHub repository: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Media-Services-Explorer
This version of the Azure Media Services Explorer supports creating assets in MK.IO from existing AMS assets.
Updated 5 days ago