Microsoft Azure Media Services can be used to deliver many media source file formats, media streaming formats, and content protection formats to a variety of client technologies (for example, iOS and XBOX). These clients understand different protocols, for example iOS requires an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format and Xbox require Smooth Streaming. If you have a set of adaptive bitrate (multi-bitrate) MP4 (ISO Base Media 14496-12) files or a set of adaptive bitrate Smooth Streaming files that you want to serve to clients that understand HLS, MPEG DASH, or Smooth Streaming, you can take advantage of Dynamic Packaging. The packaging is agnostic to the video resolution, SD/HD/UHD-4K are supported.

To take advantage of **Dynamic Packaging**, you need to have an **Asset** with a set of adaptive bitrate MP4 files and streaming configuration files needed by Media Services Dynamic Packaging. One way to get the files is to encode your mezzanine (source) file with Media Services. To make videos in the encoded Asset available to clients for playback, you have to create a **Streaming Locator** and build streaming URLs. Then, based on the specified format in the streaming client manifest (HLS, DASH, or Smooth), you receive the stream in the protocol you have chosen.