FFmpeg is the go-to open-source multimedia framework for anyone working with video, audio, or live streams. It allows you to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play virtually any media format—making it the Swiss Army knife of media processing. It supports nearly every known codec—including modern ones like Read more…
HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) streaming is a widely used protocol for live streaming due to its compatibility with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), making it suitable for streaming to large audiences. Traditionally, HLS streams have a latency of about 8-10 seconds, but with Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS), this can be reduced Read more…
ID3 is a metadata container for both media files and media streams. When I worked on it for the first time, I was a bit confused about that. In this blogpost and in Ant Media Server, we are using ID3 as timed metadata for the media streams. We will explore Read more…
Hey Android developers! Now that we discussed how to build WebRTC mobile apps, let’s go over the process of creating a WebRTC Android streaming application. Or simply use this tutorial to introduce data, audio or video streaming to your existing product – all with 4 simple steps. WebRTC is one of Read more…
We have created a new Ant Media Server Unity SDK on top of the WebRTC for Unity packages developed by the Unity team. In this post, I will try to tell you how to use it. The project also contains a sample application to show the SDK is used. I Read more…
Showing the score using video overlays In this blog post, we are going to explore image manipulation capabilities of the Stamp plugin for Ant Media Server. Using video overlays in this real world demo, team names, logos, scores and a live clock are displayed on an incoming live stream sent Read more…
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 solution that a media server offers is video conference. Online classes, online meetings, and other use cases which require real-time multi-party media communications are different applications for the conference. All of these usecases reuire interaction among users, so the media server should provide as Read more…
Ant Media Server provides a highly scalable solution on Kubernetes by the provided configuration files. This solution can also scale automatically. All you need to have is a Kubernetes Cluster. In this blog post, we will tell how you can create a Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean. Kubernetes Cluster Creation on 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…