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Live streaming has evolved beyond simple camera-to-viewer broadcasts. Today’s audiences expect interactive, engaging content with visual effects, branding elements, and augmented reality features. This guide walks you through integrating DeepAR (real-time AR filters) and Custom Canvas Overlays (logos, watermarks) into an Android live-streaming app powered by Ant Media Server. The sample project has two ready-to-run Read more…

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Streaming platforms transmit over 1 billion hours of video daily, and codec efficiency determines the bandwidth cost of every single hour. A platform serving 10,000 concurrent 4K streams consumes approximately 120 Gbps with H.265 (HEVC) compression. Versatile Video Coding (VVC), also known as H.266, cuts that figure to approximately 60–70 Read more…

The HEVC (H.265) codec is a video compression standard that reduces streaming bandwidth by 50% compared to H.264 at identical visual quality. The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a collaboration between ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG, ratified the HEVC specification in January 2013 and published it in June Read more…

H.264 is a lossy video compression standard that reduces raw video file sizes by up to 80% compared to uncompressed formats while preserving visual fidelity. The ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group jointly released H.264 in May 2003 as the successor to MPEG-2. H.264 is Read more…

HD streaming delivers video at 1280×720 pixels or higher, while SD streaming transmits video at 854×480 pixels or lower. The resolution a broadcaster selects determines visual clarity, bandwidth consumption, server processing load, and viewer retention rates across every connected device. Every live broadcast begins with a resolution decision that cascades Read more…

Selecting a video container format for streaming affects playback compatibility, adaptive bitrate delivery, and end-viewer experience across 9.8 billion connected devices worldwide. MP4 and MKV represent 2 fundamentally different approaches to packaging video, audio, and metadata into a single file. MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is the dominant container format for Read more…

VOD streaming is the content delivery model that serves pre-recorded video to viewers on demand, without broadcast schedules or physical media requirements. According to Cisco’s Annual Internet Report, internet-connected devices will exceed triple the global population, with 70% of the world owning mobile devices and demand for 4K/UHD content doubling Read more…

Ant Media Server v2.17.0 reflects our ongoing goal of making Ant Media Server extensible and building a strong AMS ecosystem. This allows both AMS users and our internal team to develop new plugins and add new features. We are continuously adding new plugins to the AMS ecosystem. At the same Read more…

Getting into live streaming requires the right encoder software from day one. Two platforms dominate the encoder market for independent streamers and professional broadcasters alike: Streamlabs and OBS Studio. Both handle scene composition, audio mixing, and RTMP publish to media servers — but they differ on CPU overhead, setup complexity, Read more…