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…
Ant Media Server has a built-in video conference feature that is already used by lots of users. Nowadays we get some questions about extending that built-in video conference solution with new features. However, this built-in video conference solution is hard to extend by users because its source code is distributed Read more…
With the release of version 2.0, Ant Media Server Enterprise Edition supports WebRTC Data Channel standard and previously we posted 3 blog posts related to setup, usage and implementation of Data Channels with Ant Media Server EE: How to Exchange Data Easily Using WebRTC Data Channels with Ant Media Server Read more…
We have started a series of blog posts that explains how to do WebRTC chat and file transfer with Ant Media Server. This is the second part which is about Image Transfer using WebRTC. You could reach the first part from here. Image Transfer Sending photos or any kind of Read more…
We are starting a series of blog posts that explains how to do WebRTC chat and file transfer with Ant Media Server. This is the first part which is about chat and text messaging using WebRTC. In the early days of the Internet, the only real means of communication were Read more…
Geographical Load Balancing is distribution of requests to the different servers according to the location of the requester. Such a load balancing let you connect a client to the nearest server. In live media streaming, geographical distance between the server and the client is important in terms of latency. If Read more…