Ant Media Server 2.4.2 is available

[ahmet oguz mermerkaya]

Hi Guys,

Ant Media Server Enterprise 2.4.2 is available to download in your account on antmedia.io and Community 2.4.2 is available on github

Highlights

• Support Multitenancy for web panel
  You can create user that is only authorized for an application. So that you can allocate some applications to some users. 
• Upgrade Default Ubuntu version to Focal(20.04)
  Ubuntu 20.04 is used in CI. Officially recommend version is Ubuntu 20.04
• Update MongoDB Driver to 4.3
  MongoDB driver supports serverless in MongoDB Atlas 
• Improve Multitrack Streaming in a Single WebRTC connection
  Multitrack streaming is being used in conferencing. Old way in conferencing is  supported and there will be more investment in multitrack streaming to provide a really good experience/performance in conferencing.   
• Improve New Conferencing Page
  There is new conferencing page which has a better UI.  You can use it in conferencing by browsing https://AMS_ENTERPRISE_URL:5443/WebRTCAppEE/conference-enter.html
  There will be more investment in conferencing UI as well. 

Check the full change log here 

https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/releases/tag/ams-v2.4.2

The  main features planned for the next release(late Feb or early Mar) are 

• Support SRT Ingest
• Improve Conferencing
• Improve Performance in Transcoding
• Support uploading 3rd party applications
• Support Running Ant Media Server behind NAT for P2P streaming:
  (Typical Scenario: Users can install Ant Media Server behind NAT to pull IP Camera streams and they can watch the IP camera directly through Ant Media Server behind NAT from anywhere in the Internet.)
  

Please let us know if you have any feedback/forward

Thank you so much for being part of this journey. It's a pleasure to be with you in this journey.

 

Regards,

A. Oguz

[ahmet oguz mermerkaya]

Hi Guys,

We just have a hot-fix.
Ant Media Server 2.4.2.1 is available. 

Here are the important changes

• Fix uploading ts & m3u8 files to the S3 
  
• Fix zero division error in ffmpeg dash muxer-
• Embedded player -> Fix the dash playback & load player faster 
  

FYI

Regards,

A. Oguz

[Jean Paul Talledo Vilela]

Hi All

I am an Ant Media User (Enterprise) and wanted to hear about suggestions to optimize my video streaming.

My Use case is:

USB Webcam  -> Linux OBS  -------->  Verizon 4G (M2M) ---------------->   Ant Media Server

I followed this link  https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/wiki/Open-Broadcaster-Software-Publishing

My Linux has a good GPU card and wondering how I can improve the streaming overall. I understand the Verizon 4G could be the transport presenting issues (4G coverage/dead spots/etc) and I would like to understand if i.e. disabling audio could improve the streaming, etc

Should I play with the adaptive bitrate?

Thanks All

JP

[Yash Tandon]

Hi Jean,
Hope you are fine.
Please make sure that you have putted settings as mentioned in the OBS guide for optimum results and you can change resolution, bitrate as per your requirement. Also your internet should be good enough to publish the stream smoothly without having frame drops and distance between the publisher & server should be minimum. 
There are other aspects also to improve stream quality, please check
https://antmedia.io/how-to-improve-live-streaming-quality/
https://antmedia.io/webrtc-video-play-pixelating-blurring-issues-troubleshooting/

Yes, enabling adaptive bitrate is a good practice for better streaming experience for viewers but as you know ABR is a CPU intensive process so it requires high CPU resources.

Regards,
Yash