I’m hosting a C# Blazor Application in Azure App Service and was leveraging Azure Media Services to transcode mpg videos to mp4 in Jobs. However, Azure Media Services was retired last month and the services are going to stop next week so I have to find an alternative.
I have looked at multiple alternatives but couldn’t find a simple conversion tool.
In Azure Media Services I was using the following configuration

I can’t seem to find the same configuration in the tools I have looked at. I tried Bitmovin but the encoding takes 5 – 10 Minutes (unlike Azure Media Services which takes 2 minutes) and the result of the encoding is a folder with 4 mp4 segments that are not part of the original mpg video.

I tried ffmpeg locally but I can’t get it to work in an Azure App Service.

Does anyone have any suggestion of an alternative to Azure Media Service when it comes to Transcoding mpg videos to mp4 in a background task?