Streaming server or http server

问题

We’re taking in mind the possibility of using a media server in order to build our on-premise media service.

We’re only focusing at Video- and Audio-on-Demand use-case. Live stream is out of our scope right now.

I mean, we’re need to serve pre-registered videos and audios with a good performance.

We’ve played with ant community server, but we’ve some issues we’re not quite figure out. We’ve tested two scenarios:

to serve a video hosted on a straight http server (httpd)
to serve a video behind an ant service.

We’ve look at how videos are downloaded by browser and we’ve surprised to see that videos are served using the same strategy: using http partial content (206).

Related code:

<head>
    <link href="https://vjs.zencdn.net/7.6.6/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <!-- If you'd like to support IE8 (for Video.js versions prior to v7) -->
    <script src="https://vjs.zencdn.net/ie8/1.1.2/videojs-ie8.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <video
      id="my-video"
      class="video-js"
      controls
      preload="auto"
      width="640"
      height="264"
      data-setup="{}"
    >
      <source src="http://localhost:5080/LiveApp/streams/378475861251583275889765.mp4?accessToken=null" type="video/mp4" />
    </video>

    <video
      id="my-video2"
      class="video-js"
      controls
      preload="auto"
      width="640"
      height="264"
      data-setup="{}"
    >
      <source src="http://localhost:8080/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    </video>

    <script src="https://vjs.zencdn.net/7.6.6/video.js"></script>
</body>

So, next question comes at mind: why do we need an Ant service if both (ant and http server) behaviors are the same?

回答1:

If you use Ant Media Server, you have more control in your structure. Please review AMS Security docs in follows -> https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/wiki/Stream-Security-Documentation

Basically, you can use upload/delete/count, etc. abilities in AMS with REST Services. Please check AMS REST services in here -> https://antmedia.io/rest/ Also, you can play with MP4 and HLS in your VoD files.

I hope, I could help you.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59984940/streaming-server-or-http-server

标签

video-streaming

streaming

audio-streaming

ant-media-server

video-on-demand