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You can use WebRTC solutions in different communication formations. In addition to peer-to-peer (1-1)  and publish-play (1-N) communication types, you can also implement a WebRTC conference (N-N) solution with Ant Media Server Javascript SDK. Let’s have a look at that step by step. Please have a look at and follow the conference example in the Github also. Step 1. Create a WebRTC Conference Room (Optional) A conference room should be created first before other operations. Read more…

In this blog post, we’re going to tell how to setup a Scalable Ant Media Server Cluster in Amazon Web Services. This solution that really cut the costs for projects that need scalable ultra low latency streaming. Let me explain how. Assume that your project needs scalable ultra low latency streaming. There are a few options to start. Implement your own ultra low latency solution. Use one of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Read more…

AWS(Amazon Web Services) Certificate Manager provides free public SSL Certificate that can be used in AWS Load Balancer for HTTPS access. Unfortunately, it’s something a little weird at first to set it up first. So that we prepare this blog post in order to provide a step by step guide to make life easier. In our guide below, we use a subdomain of antmedia.io that is registered at another company.  Let’s get started Request Certificate Read more…

This is the one of the most asked questions since we start developing Ant Media Server. It’s now time to create a solution for projects that needs chat in their streaming projects.  Before we start explaining the steps how to integrate chat into your streaming projects. Let me give some brief introduction about the solution. In our solution, we use a third party solution(Rocket Chat) for chat support because we mainly develop a media server Read more…

The incompatibility between RTSP IP Camera and Web Browsers is a headache. We need to use some third-party plugins for web browsers or use some native applications to watch the IP Camera. It absolutely doesn’t feel comfortable. Luckily, Ant Media provides 2 ways to make RTSP IP Camera WebRTC (Web browser) compatible. The first one is for IP Camera User and the second one is for IP Camera Manufacturers. Let me describe these two solutions. Read more…

In this post, I will tell about Ant Media’s Scalable Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Solution in Cloud. Firstly, I want to talk about cloud and AMS images on cloud. As known, cloud computing is a rapidly growing technology. So, most businesses adapt their infrastructure to take advantage of this technology. As Ant Media we also believe the importance of cloud computing. Therefore, we aim to bring together Ant Media Server and its users on the cloud. Read more…

You have a streaming project for a limited audience. Or you just want to secure streaming personally, however, may have some concerns about its reachability. Ant Media Server offers hash-based token security control option with 1.6.2 version as an alternative to one-time tokens offered in Ant Media Server. In this post, we’re going to try to explain how to enable and use  hash based tokens step by step. Enable Hash Settings and Define Secret Key Read more…

REST API guide is one of the missing guides that our lovely users need to get started. In designing Ant Media Server, we’re trying to make almost everything configurable and accessible through REST API. Actually, we need to do this in order to develop a web management panel. So I can say that by using REST API you can almost do anything on Ant Media Server. Here is an abstract list of available methods in Read more…

In this post, we will talk about the available streaming protocols without any deep technical details. Also, we will compare them in terms of Latency. First of all let define, “Media Streaming”, “Streaming Protocol” and “Latency”: Media streaming is the transfer of media data from source to target. This media can be a file or a live data captured by the camera at the moment. Streaming Protocols define the rules of this transfer such as Read more…