Ant Media Server is a software that can stream live and VoD streams. It supports scalable, ultra low latency (0.5 seconds) adaptive streaming and records live videos in several formats like HLS, MP4, etc.

Here are the fundamental features of Ant Media Server:

• Ultra Low Latency Adaptive One to Many WebRTC Live Streaming in Enterprise Edition.
• Adaptive Bitrate for Live Streams (WebRTC, MP4, HLS) in Enterprise Edition.
• SFU in One to Many WebRTC Streams in Enterprise Edition.
• Live Stream Publishing with RTMP and WebRTC.
• WebRTC to RTMP Adapter.
• IP Camera Support.
• Recording Live Streams (MP4 and HLS).
• Restream to Social Media Simultaneously(Facebook and Youtube in Enterprise Edition).
• One-Time Token Control in Enterprise Edition.
• Object Detection in Enterprise Edition.

Ant Media Server has two versions. One of them is the Community Edition(Free) and the other one is Enterprise Edition. Community Edition is available to download on Github. Enterprise Edition can be purchased on antmedia.io

	Community Edition	Enterprise Edition
Ultra Low Latency One-to-Many WebRTC Streaming
End-to-End Latency	8-12 Seconds	0.5 Seconds (500ms)
Scaling
RTMP(Ingesting) to WebRTC (Playing)
Hardware Encoding(GPU)
Adaptive Bitrate
Secure Streaming
iOS & Android WebRTC SDK
iOS & Android RTMP SDK
RTMP, RTSP, MP4 and HLS Support
WebRTC to RTMP Adapter
360 Degree Live & VoD Streams
Web Management Dashboard
IP Camera Support
Re-stream Remote Streams
Open Source
Simulcasting to Periscope
Simulcast to Facebook & Youtube
Support	Community	E-mail, On-site
Price	Free	Paid

Download and save the Ant Media Server Community/Enterprise Edition from http://antmedia.io to your disk. Ant Media Server is being tested on Ubuntu 18.04 versions on CI.

Open a terminal and go to the directory where you have downloaded Ant Media Server Zip file

cd path/to/where/ant-media-server....zip

Download the install_ant-media-server.sh shell script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ant-media/Scripts/master/install_ant-media-server.sh
chmod 755 install_ant-media-server.sh

You need to add "true" to the end of the command line if you want to keep your settings from previous installation.

sudo ./install_ant-media-server.sh -i [ANT_MEDIA_SERVER_INSTALLATION_FILE] -r true

For a clean new installation:

sudo ./install_ant-media-server.sh -i [ANT_MEDIA_SERVER_INSTALLATION_FILE] 

You can check the service if it is running

sudo service antmedia status

You can stop/start the service anytime you want

sudo service antmedia stop
sudo service antmedia start

Open your browser and type http://SERVER_IP_ADDRESS:5080 to go to the web panel. If you're having difficulty in accessing the web panel, there may be a firewall that blocks accessing the 5080 port.

In order to server run properly you need to open some network ports. Here are the ports server uses

• TCP:1935 (RTMP)
• TCP:5080 (HTTP)
• TCP:5443 (HTTPS)
• UDP:5000-65000 (WebRTC)
• TCP:5000-65000 (You need to open this range in only cluster mode for internal network. It should not be open to public.)

Generally, port forwarding is used to forward default ports to the server's ports in order to have ease of use. For instance let's forward 80 to 5080, just type the command below.

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 5080
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 5443

After running the command above, the request goes to 80, 443 is being forwarded to 5080, 5443 consecutively

To List port forwarding run the command below

sudo iptables -t nat --line-numbers -L

To delete a port forwarding run the command below

iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING [LINE_NUMBER_IN_PREVIOUS_COMMAND]

If you want the server to reload port forwarding after reboot, we need to install iptables-persistent package and save rules like below

sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent

Above command will install iptables-persistent package, after that just run the command below every time you make a change and want it to be persistent

sudo sh -c "iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4"