I use Ant Media for auctions.
Redefine real-time streaming with Ant Media Server Enterprise
Ant Media | v2.14.0Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 24.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Strong management panel integration enhances the auction experience
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
It creates an emotion that feels almost like being in a traditional in-person auction.
What is most valuable?
Their management panel is easy to integrate and was straightforward to implement into our own auction dashboard.
What needs improvement?
While the streaming performance is excellent, the pricing could be more accessible for small teams or markets with limited resources.
It would also be helpful to have a more customizable and ready-to-use WebRTC publishing interface, making it easier to integrate browser-based live streams without relying on external tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for some months.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I didn’t use a different product before.
I chose Ant Media from the beginning because of its focus on low-latency streaming and built-in WebRTC support, which are essential for live auction events.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Ant Media delivers strong performance and powerful features, but I would advise others to carefully evaluate the pricing based on their use case and frequency of events.
For large-scale or frequent streaming, the value is clear. However, for smaller markets or occasional events, the cost can become a challenge unless well justified by audience size or revenue.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not consider alternate solutions.
What other advice do I have?
Ant Media is a powerful platform that delivers on its promise of low-latency, high-quality streaming. The technology is solid, and the support team is responsive.
My only advice would be to consider offering more flexible pricing tiers or pay-per-use options to make it more accessible for smaller-scale projects or emerging markets.
I look forward to seeing how the platform evolves.
Video streams seamlessly to the cloud but VPN support and local push feature could be added
What is our primary use case?
The solution is used to stream video from CCTV to the cloud.
How has it helped my organization?
It helps to seamlessly stream the videos to the cloud.
What is most valuable?
The web dashboard is clean and easy to work with.
What needs improvement?
The product could be improved by adding VPN support and offering a local push feature in the free version.
For how long have I used the solution?
The solution has been used for two months.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
A previous solution was used and it was too cluttered, but the Ant UX is clean.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would expect the setup to be a bit cheaper.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
An open-source free version was considered as an alternate solution.
Ant Media Server Made My Project a Success!
I’ve been using Ant Media Server and I must say I’m really impressed with their service. One of the things I appreciate the most is their excellent support — the team is always responsive, helpful, and quick to assist whenever I face any issue.
The platform itself is very easy to work with, even for complex streaming projects. Thanks to Ant Media Server, I was able to successfully build and deploy a streaming project for my classroom, and honestly, it turned out to be one of the best projects we have validated so far!
Highly recommended for anyone looking for a reliable and user-friendly streaming solution.
Great solution for streaming cameras to the web
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
streaming cameras to our website
AntMedia helps in healthcare
We are using AntMedia streaming for our product VR Vitalis Pro that is used by physiotherapists during rehabilitation sessions. Thanks to AntMedia, physiotherapists can see what patient see in VR headset and navigate him/her. We change the streaming form Unity to AntMedia and we are satisfied. Thank you.
AntMedia - Best Ever one Stop VMS Solution for all your VMS Needs
We are truly thankful for your outstanding support during our recent product launch. Your contributions played a pivotal role in our success.
Your expertise and timely support with your Ant Media enterprise Video Management Server (VMS) ensured a smooth and effective launch, and for that, we are profoundly appreciative. Your consistent reliability reinforces the trust we have in your services.
Special thanks to Yash, the Product Manager, for his unparalleled leadership and vision, and to Oguz, the Tech Head, for his technical prowess and dedication. Your combined efforts made a significant difference, and we couldn't have achieved this success without you.
Thank you for your exemplary service.
Perfect balance of abstraction and power
What do you like best about the product?
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
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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ant Media allowed us to develop our proof of concept within weeks rather than months. It provides powerful WebRTC features within a very elegant scalable architecture that allows us to easily access raw streams for analysis and processing for our application's specific needs (which are to do with large crowds).
Amazing tool for live-streaming
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
The community edition of Ant Media Server has quite a bit of lag which affects the live stream latency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Yolobox -> vMix
Our schools using Ant Media Server
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
as platform we cant complain maybe we need help with more developers to help new features to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a school and we use Antmedia to provide live classes to our students. using live conference on our own infraestructure, these help us with control of video, control of privacy, get our own infraestructure and implement new features at a good price.
Excellent Product with Outstanding Customer Support
We have been using Ant Media Server for a while now, and I’m extremely impressed with both the product and the team behind it. The server performs efficiently, offering great streaming capabilities, but what truly sets Ant Media apart is their exceptional customer support.
When we encountered an issue with the server's memory, their support team was quick to respond, knowledgeable, and always willing to go the extra mile to help resolve the problem.
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