Ant Media Server Enterprise - Ultra-Low Latency WebRTC Live Streaming
Ant Media | v2.7.0Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 20.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Best media server in the market
Simply robust and straightforward to setup. Super responsive team from Ant media (shoutout to Ahmet)
Literally cut down development times by 95% and is full of features.
Writing this review after over a year of production usage.
Would strongly recommend anyone who plans to either use Webrtc publishing with either Werbtc or HLS playback, no matter the platform, android, iOS or browser.
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Great for low-latency-streaming + great support
Ant Media is a great solution if you need low latency live-streaming. We use it to link two TV-Studio-locations together. With WebRTC, the delay is really just about half a second, with HLS its little over 2sec. WebRTC has great performance, audio is clean, video is sometimes jittery, but if you use HLS quality is perfect.
Also, the support was very helpful and responsive, we had a video meeting for 1 hour and the support staff really made sure our problems were solved.
Thanks a lot!
Easy to deploy and fantastic support
I was looking for a solution to provide low-latency (less than 1 second), high quality (1080p) video for online live training courses. All the streaming solutions that I tried (NGINX with the RTMP module, Wowza Streaming Cloud, AWS Elemental, Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.) use HLS or MPEG-DASH, which are fantastic from a scalability perspective, but where the latency is much higher (5-30s).
I benchmarked 3 media servers: Wowza Streaming Engine, Ant Media Server, and Red5Pro. Wowza and Red5Pro also have great qualities, but I wasn't able to stream WebRTC with them (I use RTMP for ingest). However, with Ant Media Server, it worked almost immediately. No need to hand-edit XML files or get a beta version or whatever, it just worked.
Since I do not run my media server 24x7, having an option where I pay by the hour is an amazing value for me. I can just turn on or off my server when I need it for my courses.
Ant Media support was also extremely helpful and knowledgeable. For instance, while running my tests, at some point I experienced lots of dropped frames over WebRTC, while the same stream over HLS and RTMP looked perfect. In 10 minutes, Ahmet and his team they were able to point out that my encoder was using H264 high profile, which uses B frames, which aren't supported in WebRTC decoders (at least to this date). After switching my encoder's profile to baseline, the video was smooth, no more dropped frames. (This was particularly interesting to me because I thought that all recent H264 decoders would support high profile; but WebRTC is different, since it's optimized for low latency.)
I strongly recommend this product if it fits your use case; and I also strongly recommend getting paid support from the Ant Media team if you are having technical issues as I described above - it's 100% worth it.
Superb media server
Ant Media Server is very easy to install on AWS. It took me 7 minutes in total and I have never used AWS or Ant Media server before.
The support from the developers is fantastic too. Quick email replies and setting up a help call on zoom too. They helped me configure a TURN server so the video plays nicely behind NAT.
I am not affiliated I any way with ANT Media server and I used Wowza for years. But I needed a cost-effective low latency platform. Even on the rtmp and HLS test, the latency is very very short (on RTMP less than 500 ms).
I am sold! I will be using Ant for all my future stream projects!
Planet's No # 1 Live streaming engine software
No doubt, Ant media server is the No #1 streaming engine ever built on the planet. I really love the performance, speed and support system of ant media server.
I would like to rate this product 5 Star.
Reason to love this product:
* Ant Media Server supports RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC and Adaptive Bitrate with scalable Ultra-Low Latency that fits our use case.
* Good support and compatibility for android and iOS devices
Good streaming solution
This solution is perfect for streaming video and audio across multiple devices. Good support by email from the Antmedia team
Great Solution for Low Latency Streaming
We've been using the Ant Media AMI for almost 6 months in demanding low-latency applications and have been very satisfied with the performance of the platform. The product is not yet fully mature but the very reactive, professional and friendly team at Ant Media really make for a great experience as they do their upmost to help their customers. We are trying to learn from their customer support habits!
Put simply, we haven't found anything better on the market for WebRTC sub-1s latency streaming. Our product probably would not exist without Ant.
Thank you!
Solid WebRTC solution
Good solid solution for streaming, we have mainly used the WebRTC for both Android and IOS and streaming works good.
Very low latency on stream. Good support, we had some issues which where quickly resolved.