In this blog post, I will tell 3 different video conferencing solutions in Ant Media Server: Stream Based SFU, Track Based SFU, and MCU. Sometimes they may be confusing also for me, so I decided to write this blog post. I will try to keep this blog post as simple Read more…
One of the most common use cases for a media server is video conferencing. Online classes, online meetings, and other use cases which require real-time multi-party media communications are different applications for the conference. Since online conference use cases are interactive, the media server should provide as ultra-low latency as Read more…
Ant Media Server is one of the most used real-time streaming engines in the world. It has a very flexible license-based pricing model. You can have hourly, monthly, annual or perpetual licenses. Thus, you can migrate your live streaming application to Ant Media Server easily and at a low cost Read more…
Ant Media Server has been released with a built-in filtering plugin since v2.4.0.2. The Filter Plugin lets you make Real-time Audio/Video Manipulation on the server-side. The main application of the filtering plugin is the MCU with which you can merge video/audio into a single stream for a conference room. You Read more…
WebRTC multitrack lets us stream multiple video/audio tracks through a single connection. To use this feature, the SDP semantic should be set as Unified Plan. Ant Media Server is supporting to play multiple broadcasts as tracks of a WebRTC stream. These broadcasts may be even WebRTC or RTMP streams. With Read more…
One of the most asked questions is How to Merge/Mix Streams in a Single Stream in a Conference call (aka. MCU). Just assume that there are 4 people in the conference call and you want to broadcast the conference call on youtube or record everything or play with WebRTC just Read more…
Previously we published this blog post to introduce the general structure of the plugin mechanism in the Ant Media Server. Also, we had a community event where we discussed the plugin mechanism with the Ant Media Server community. You can access it from youtube. This blog post will be a Read more…
Ant Media Server (AMS) users are mostly people from Product Engineering teams, and IT departments, and most of them are also software developers. So we have received lots of requests for plugin mechanisms. We have been working on a mechanism that lets AMS users integrate their extensions with AMS. In Read more…
What is Multi-Level Cluster? Ant Media Server provides highly scalable solutions with a cluster structure. We have a blog post and documentation about cluster structure. In this blog post, we will introduce a new feature which is the multi-level cluster. A cluster that has different regions is called Multi-Level Cluster Read more…
The Time-based One-time Password algorithm (TOTP) is the recently implemented stream security mechanism in Ant Media Server. This can provide tokens that are valid for a time period. Publishers or players should use these tokens in time to be able to publish or play. What is a Time-based One-Time Password Read more…