Ant Media Server Reviews & Product Details

I love how easy this was to set up and start using. As a software engineering student, I find the API integration awesome because it lets me build custom pipelines. On top of that, the performance is amazing compared to other software out there. I’m currently using the Community Edition, and the performance and overall suite of features are a great fit for my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My only real gripe with Ant Media Server right now is that adaptive bitrate streaming and the WebRTC codec aren’t available in the on-premise Community Edition. In this day and age, I consider that an essential capability for reaching lower-bitrate devices and connections, especially when the stream is being hosted on hardware the individual already owns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, one click implementation. You can deploy within AWS in 5 minutes. Great support if you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pretty much nothing. We set it up easily, it just worked for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's incredibly versatile. I've been using the Community edition for a few years and have a wide variety of input sources. With a very small number of one-time configuration changes, the server has been able to handle them all with modest hardware. Having the ability to host our own instance on internal networks is extremely useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't think there's anything that I necessarily dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ant Media Server provides ultra-low latency streaming with native WebRTC support, which is critical for real-time interactive experiences. It is highly scalable, developer-friendly, and easy to deploy and integrate into existing systems. The documentation and APIs are clear, which reduces engineering effort and accelerates feature rollout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Advanced configurations can require technical expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The first thing its latency is very low. It shows me almost real-time video and the second best part is it is very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike, but Ant Media Server can introduce professional DRM integration to secure live streams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antmedia has been a perfect solution for our school with its videoconferencing solution, it has allowed us to maintain full control of our classes and infrastructure to provide better attention, 100% recommended, a reliable solution that is easy to use and implement. We are able to stream and share also our classes into multiple social networks and maintain our students and parents with all they need for their kids and share with our followers. We think main features we recommend are live stream into multiple social networks, conference solution for any event or implementation and all can be controlled by API helping us to implement any feature we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a platform, we can't complain. Maybe we need help with more developers to help implement new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ant Media allows more customisation than typical CPaaS solutions, but handles the under-the-hood WebRTC work, allowing engineering teams to focus on more valuable application-specific features.

For me, it's the perfect balance — we can tweak low level things and access the raw streams if we want to, but we don't have to.

Some of the best parts of our Ant Media experience have been:

- The ease of deploying on AWS

- The cloud portability

- The ease of scaling

- The ease of integrating with other systems

- The plug-in architecture (easy to extend functionality)

- The support offered by their engineers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing really that I dislike about it.

The only potential downside (which you're unlikely to come across and might not be a downside if you have the skills), is that the source code is Java.

You won't even notice this in normal use, but it just means that if you want to write your own plugin, you'd need to do that in Java. Java's a good choice of language for this kind of thing, though, and Ant Media's team will probably help you if needed.

For the vast majority of use cases, you won't need to write your own plugins. Ant Media already does what most people will need 'out of the box', with SDKs for JavaScript, Flutter, Unity, React Native, iOS and Android. They also provide pre-made plugins for some pretty cool stuff, including Tensorflow analysis — so you're unlikely to be writing your own unless you have very specific applications. And if you do, Java's a pretty good choice to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Been using AMS for several years and have had great experiences with it. Our videos stream as expected. The server is easy to set up and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially figuring out how to set up camera streams, the documentation could be a little better on that. Once figured out they are easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ant Media server allows me to use vMix, Yolobox and Owncast in conjunction. I have an event coming up and I did a few tests, the videographer has camera with Yolobox Pro to live stream, however I have a few of my own NDI cameras. Due to this, the tested solution is Yolobox to locally hosted Ant Media Server to vMix to Owncast. vMix already has the other NDI cameras as more of the inputs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The community edition of Ant Media Server has quite a bit of lag which affects the live stream latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ant Media Server is infrastructure, which is what I am looking for. It is the best in class for a wide variety of video streaming use-cases, focusing on performance and flexibility. It is great that there are a variety of solutions in the market such as AWS and Linode who support Ant Media server turn key installation of the server, this makes it very easy to get an instance up and running quickly.

For The AI Music Video Show, we need a solution that allows for our immediate needs including live streaming, and linear live streaming to a variety of social media destinations. We were able to get this running very quickly by uploading our files and configuring endpoints, now our music video channel can stream to our audience 24x7 without interruptions.

Because we intend to grow the variety of video oriented solutions and products we offer, the scaleability and the flexibility of the Ant Media Server are the two things I like best, as we grow our audience I do not worry about our ability to handle the load, and as we innovate with new ways to use generative video for entertainment, I am confident the Ant Media Server will be a core utility we can count on.

Finally, I really appreciated the personal touch the team provides new customers onboarding for the first time, the customer support has been really fantastic and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is not as modern as I would prefer, but this does not affect performance or capability in any way so it's really not a big deal, plus they have the API's and SDKs if we ever need to develop something user facing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.