Technical notes, tutorials, and integration guides for production video streaming systems.
These articles cover Wowza Streaming Engine, Ant Media Server, access control, live-stream watermarking, REST integrations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and custom media-server development.
Ant Media Server Stamp Articles
Guides for watermarking, overlays, and API-driven graphics with Stamp for Ant Media Server.
Wowza Streaming Engine Wrench Articles
Tutorials for Wowza Streaming Engine authentication, authorization, access control, pay-per-view, and pay-per-minute workflows with Wrench.
- Tracking publisher and player time in Wowza with Wrench
- Step-by-Step Wrench Setup Guide
- Web Service Based Authentication / Authorization
- Stream Access Control
- Video Chat / Streaming-as-a-Service Website
- User Authentication for Wowza Streaming Engine®
- How does Wrench authentication and authorization work?
- Dynamic Pay-per-minute Balance Checking
- Forbidding Concurrent Stream Playing
- Simple pay-per-minute solution for Wowza
General Video Streaming Articles
Additional articles about live streaming, media-server development, monitoring, and platform integration.
- Comments on the Wowza Streaming Engine® Server Side API
- Debugging your Wowza Module from Eclipse
- Hello Wowza - Module Dev Tutorial
- Logging Player Counts to Database
Featured Articles
AI Video Surveillance explains how Ant Media Server and its AIVision integration can turn IP camera feeds into actionable information. By periodically extracting frames and analyzing them with vision language models, applications can use natural-language prompts to identify potential safety issues, such as missing helmets, smoke, or unauthorized entry, and surface relevant events for human review.
This article is a practical guide to broadcasting events such as conferences, concerts, and webinars, covering audience planning, internet bandwidth, camera and audio equipment, platform selection, streaming setup, viewer engagement, access security, and rehearsals. It also explains how recordings and replays extend an event’s value afterward. Throughout, the article highlights how Ant Media Server supports these workflows through low-latency streaming, self-hosted infrastructure, scalability, and controlled access for registered attendees.