Live Video Streaming

  This blog post will help you to enable SSL for   Ant Media Server . Enabling SSL is not mandatory for all cases. However,  it’s mandatory when requesting access to mic and camera. It’s not mandatory for playing streams HTTPS and WSS (WebSocket Secure) is mandatory for Google Chrome to run WebRTC and WebSocket applications. In addition, developers want to serve their content with a secure connection as well. The script in this post install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Enable SSL in Linux(Ubuntu) Go to the folder where Ant-Media-Server is installed. Default directory is /usr/local/antmedia 1 cd /usr/local/antmedia If there is a service that uses 80 port, you need to disable it. If your system has Apache Web Server, you need to disable it first such a command below 1 sudo service apache2 stop There should be an  enable_ssl.sh  file in the installation directory. Call the enable_ssl.sh with your domain name 1 sudo ./enable_ssl.sh -d example.com enable_ssl.sh ...

  What is vMix? vMix  is a software vision mixer available for the Windows operating system and we’ll see  how to use vMix  for streaming. vMix is developed by StudioCoast PTY LTD. Like most vision mixing software, it allows users to switch inputs, mix audio, record outputs, and  live stream  cameras, video files, audio, and more, in resolutions of up to 4K. It can stream up to three destinations at one time. You can do  RTMP  stream with vMix and watch  WebRTC  from Ant Media Server. Let’s see  how to use vMix  for streaming. How to use vMix? vMix is available for Windows only because it is using Direct3D which is exclusively available for Windows. Before learning how to use vMix, you need to install vMix on your computer. Click  this link  to download the trial version. Then go through installation by double-clicking the installation file. If you want to run it on Mac, you can do that by installing Windows on a sepa...

  We’re happy to announce that Ant Media Server v2.2 is out with CMAF support. Before giving more highlights for the new version, just let us thank all you guys out there that make Ant Media Server become a worldwide product in 121 countries. It’s great to help lots of people around the world for their video streaming projects. After this introduction, let me give the highlights for the v2.2. Low Latency (CMAF) vs. Ultra Low Latency (WebRTC) Ant Media Server right now supports both LL(CMAF) and ULL(WebRTC). Here is the some basic information about these technologies. CMAF provides low latency(3-5 secs) in live streaming, on the other hand WebRTC provides Ultra Low Latency(0.5 secs) in live streaming. Then which one is good for your streaming project, CMAF or WebRTC? Which one to use? Both technologies have advantages and disadvantages. You can pick the correct one according to your use case.  CMAF is good if there is no interactivity between broadcasters and viewers. It’s easi...