Ant Media Server Pros and Cons

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 clases into multiple social networks and maintain our students and parents with all they need for his 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 platform we cant complain maybe we need help with more developers to help new features to implement. 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 funcionality)

- 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 Natvie, 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.

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.

- Ability to multistream using your own server

- system of access control for various projects

- Possibility of free use with great functionality

- really good technical support

- easy to use interface

- There are detailed instructions for implementation on the server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- In the beginning there were problems with some video formats sent to the stream. But with tech support offered solutions

- At the moment there is no graphical interface to start scheduled streams

- Sometimes streams just stopped. But we haven't found the reason yet, more likely just a rare bug Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well-presented, trusted part of our daily client review workflow for a little over 4 years. Does exactly as advertised and is one of the few products that I genuinely look forward to updates for. Customer support is effective and friendly. Price is very reasonable. Roadmap is spelled out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation could be slightly better in places. Installation on some distributions, where GPU acceleration is required, could be slightly more straightforward. Little to complain about though, generally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ant Media Server has been my go-to streamer for several years now. Their technology (both front end and back end) is easy to navigate, easy to incorporate, and is rock-solid.

I run a droplet on my server. Getting Ant Media up and running was incredibly easy. Deployment only takes around 15 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As when dealing with any technology company, one needs to have a background in the product. At times dealing with the customer service can have a bit of a disconnect because the end user might not have the faculties to properly explain an issue to someone more versed in the service.

That being said - having a problem with the service would be an edge case. And this is an advanced platform that has customer service more directed toward power users - always a good thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We like the availability of a community version of AntMedia server which allows you to get started quickly using lab hardware. Also we like the existence of an APIs and SDKs for JS, Android and iOS integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I know we ask for a lot but it would be so nice if some basic clustering option is present in the community edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The samples of usage are very useful and facilitate the process of creation of new models and possibilities.

The stream latency is very low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Ant Media for a few years at another company I worked for. And most of the times the answers given to the emails are very superficial and are not resolute or the answers are partial.

One more email is always needed. And, perhaps because of the time difference, each response takes at least 24 hours. In critical cases this is a problem if we consider 48 hours for the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Ant Media Server is its exceptional real-time performance, seamless HLS playback, extensive device support, and robust WebRTC capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area for improvement is the admin panel, which could benefit from additional options for configuring server settings through a more user-friendly graphical interface (GUI). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.