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How to Make Webinars More Interactive with Real-Time Streaming
Explore how WebRTC is transforming real-time communication in 2025 with top use cases like video conferencing, live streaming, and IoT applications.
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7 Smart Reasons Why You Should Migrate From Twilio Video to Ant Media
In today’s fast-evolving video communication landscape, businesses and developers need streaming solutions that are flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. Many teams have historically used platforms like Twilio Programmable Video to add real-time video capabilities to apps. However, as product strategies continue to shift across providers, many developers are evaluating alternatives that provide greater control, advanced streaming capabilities, and predictable costs. In this article, we explore 7 smart reasons why teams are choosing to migrate from Twilio Read more…
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How to Use XSplit with Ant Media Server
XSplit is a Windows-based live streaming application enabling RTMP broadcast publishing to media server infrastructure through multi-source video mixing and hardware-accelerated encoding. The software provides scene composition tools, camera capture integration, and audio mixing capabilities designed for gameplay streaming, presentation broadcasting, and live event production. Broadcasting teams configuring XSplit for RTMP streaming workflows gain desktop production control combined with server-side scalability. XSplit publishes encoded video via RTMP protocol to Ant Media Server which processes the Read more…
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WebRTC Flutter SDK: Build Your Web App in 4 Simple Steps!
Learn how to create a WebRTC Flutter streaming web application in 4 simple steps. This tutorial shows you how to add data, audio, or video streaming to your existing product using Flutter and Ant Media’s WebRTC SDK. WebRTC is a widely-used real-time streaming protocol that’s straightforward to implement in browsers. While numerous tutorials exist for web platforms, implementing WebRTC on mobile requires additional considerations. Platform-specific guides: Prerequisites Install the following software before beginning: Step 1: Read more…
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Effortless Push Notifications Integration on Streaming Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide with Ant Media Server
A push notification is a message that pops up on a user’s device to provide timely and relevant information. Unlike emails or SMS, push notifications are delivered directly to the user’s device through the app, even if it’s not open, ensuring immediate engagement. They can include text, images, or clickable links, allowing businesses and applications to communicate directly with users in real-time, improving user retention and engagement by keeping users informed about updates, alerts, and Read more…
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How to Build Flutter WebRTC Live Streaming Apps in 7 Steps [2026]
Ant Media’s Flutter WebRTC SDK enables developers to build streaming applications that publish and play WebRTC broadcasts with minimal code. The SDK provides cross-platform support for Android, iOS, Web, and Desktop from a single Flutter codebase. This tutorial covers complete Flutter WebRTC SDK setup, from environment configuration through implementing publishing, playback, peer-to-peer connections, conference mode, and data channels. Flutter developers gain production-ready streaming capabilities without complex WebRTC protocol implementation. What Are the Prerequisites for Flutter Read more…
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How to Stream WebRTC to HLS and DASH with Ant Media Server [2026 Update]
Developers can make users broadcast live video streams from their browser with WebRTC that can be distributed to many with DASH and HLS. In other words, users can broadcast live video from browsers as they do with a flash plugin, fortunately, this time there is no need to use any third-party plugin. Ant Media Server is a media server that has additional life-saving features/APIs for developers. Ant Media Server supports HLS and DASH so that Read more…
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Video Codecs Explained: H.264, H.265, AV1 & VP9 [2026 Update]
Video codec selection determines your streaming platform’s bandwidth costs, device compatibility, and viewer experience quality. Wrong codec choices waste 40-60% of your infrastructure budget on unnecessary bandwidth consumption. Streaming platforms transmit over 1 billion hours of video daily. Each codec compresses this data differently, creating massive cost variations. A platform serving 10,000 concurrent 1080p streams consumes 50 Gbps with H.264 compression but only 25 Gbps with H.265 at identical quality. This guide examines five video Read more…
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GPU vs CPU Transcoding: Which One Delivers Better Streaming Performance
In the ever-evolving world of live streaming and video processing, one crucial factor determines the quality and efficiency of your streams—transcoding. Whether you’re running a streaming platform, broadcasting live events, or delivering video-on-demand (VOD) content, choosing the right transcoding method can make all the difference. The two primary options for video transcoding are CPU-based transcoding and GPU-based transcoding. But which one delivers better streaming performance? In this in-depth comparison, we’ll explore their strengths, weaknesses, and Read more…
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3 Simple Steps to Build a ReactJS Component for WebRTC Live Streaming
ReactJS is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks used to power extremely dynamic web applications. By building a ReactJS component, we can develop powerful applications that seamlessly integrate Ant Media Server into React, making it more versatile and engaging. Ant Media Server provides ultra-low latency WebRTC streaming capabilities that work seamlessly with modern JavaScript frameworks. While Ant Media offers an array of Software Development Kits (SDKs), for React applications, the JavaScript SDK is the Read more…