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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. With RSTP to WebRTC stream, you can watch RTSP streams with ultra-low latency. The first one is for IP Camera Users and the 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 the 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 in the importance of cloud computing. Therefore, we aim to bring together Ant Media Server and its users on 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. Before starting, let’s quickly define the REST API. What is REST API? A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface (API or 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’s 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 live data captured by the camera at the moment. Streaming Protocols define the rules of this transfer such as data Read more…

In this post, we will tell you which kind of Live Video Broadcasting Tools are available. Before we start, we should say that there are two categories in Live Broadcast Toolbox. The first one is the live streaming softwares. The second one is the live streaming hardwares. We will tell the software and hardware live streaming tools and give a simple comparison for them. Streaming Softwares vs. Streaming Hardwares, Which is Better ? Live Streaming Read more…

In this post, we will tell the advantages of Ant Media Server over an SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit). Actually Ant Media Server supports SFU mode but it is much more than an SFU.  First of all, Let us tell what SFU is. Later, we will tell why you should prefer Ant Media Server among other alternatives. What is SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit)? SFU stands for Selective Forwarding Unit. At times, SFU is used to describe Read more…

In this post, we will tell how you can do WebRTC load testing in 5 minutes. We will run tests on AWS instances. There will be two instances: one for Ant Media Server and other for Ant Media Test Server. We have a post about how to start Ant Media Server on AWS. So we will mostly focus on Test Server Side. Create Ant Media Server Instance Firstly we will create an instance from one Read more…

This blog post describes how to start Ant Media Server instance on an AWS Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine instance. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. AWS Marketplace is an online software store that helps customers find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services that run on AWS. Step 1) Log in to AWS Console First, you need to log in the AWS Read more…