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Ant Media

MEETINGS
Velocity0.0

Real-time, ultra-low-latency video streaming server.

Ant Media's feed is mostly license-tier pages; the real news is its DRM and low-latency plugins.

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Current state
The crawled feed mixes pricing and license pages (Trial, Hourly, Pay-as-you-Go, Monthly) with two genuine capability additions: a DRM plugin for securing streams and a Low-Latency HLS plugin cutting latency to 2-5 seconds. Ant Media Server is a WebRTC and RTMP streaming engine; the substantive entries are its plugin ecosystem, but several entries are clearly pricing pages caught by the crawler.
Where it's heading
Ant Media's product direction shows in its plugins: DRM for content protection and LL-HLS for latency, extending a streaming core toward enterprise security and performance. Publishing cadence here is low and partly polluted by license-page captures, so the feed understates actual development.
Prediction
Expect plugin-led expansion across security, latency, and scaling to remain the pattern; the crawl source should be pointed at a real changelog rather than pricing pages to surface releases reliably.

Recent moves

  1. 4mo ago

    Trial License for Enterprise Edition

    A license-tier page captured by the crawler, not a product change.

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  2. 5mo ago

    Hourly License For Enterprise Edition

    Another license-tier page; pricing content rather than a release.

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  3. 1y ago

    DRM Plugin

    The DRM plugin adds standards-based content protection to Ant Media streams, a meaningful enterprise capability, though it is an older release surfacing in a low-cadence feed.

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  4. 1y ago

    Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS) Plugin

    Low-Latency HLS cuts streaming latency to 2-5 seconds versus 10-30 for traditional HLS, a real performance addition for interactive use cases.

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  5. 4y ago

    Pay-as-you-Go License

    A pay-as-you-go pricing page captured by the crawler; not a product update.

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  6. 4y ago

    Monthly License for Enterprise Edition (Download Only)

    A monthly-license download page; pricing content rather than a release.

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