Ant Media Server
Real-time streaming engine delivering to millions of viewers at ~300ms latency, supporting
Ant Media Server is a real-time video streaming engine built around WebRTC, designed for low-latency delivery and adaptive streaming across protocols including CMAF, LL-HLS/DASH, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, WHIP/WHEP and Zixi. It addresses the challenge of delivering live video at scale with sub-second latency, supporting deployments on-premise, in private or public cloud, on air-gapped networks, or through cloud marketplaces on AWS, Azure and GCP.
Core capabilities include transcoding, auto-scaling, REST APIs, and SDKs for iOS, Android, Unity, React Native, Flutter and JavaScript. The platform supports IP camera monitoring, security protocols, and content monetization through subscriptions, pay-per-view and ads. An AIVision Plugin provides on-premises AI features such as scene descriptions, OCR and safety alerts. The Marketplace offers additional plugins including Scribe for live subtitling, Scotty for server-side ad insertion, Moderator for stream moderation, a DRM Plugin, LL-HLS, and Circle for video conferencing.
Ant Media Server is aimed at developers, product managers and businesses building streaming applications across media and entertainment, live shopping, telehealth, auctions, surveillance, gaming, video conferencing and e-learning. It is packaged in Enterprise and Community editions, with cloud marketplace options on hourly or annual subscriptions, and self-hosted licenses available on hourly, monthly, annual or perpetual terms. A free trial is offered, and support plans range from standard to paid priority or dedicated assistance.
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