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Harnessing the power of Quartz Scheduler in ant media server

Quartz scheduler is an enterprise-grade popular open-source job scheduling library for Java applications. The ant media server extends from an open-source media server framework and therefore it brings along all the goodies of the same framework with it. One such extremely useful feature is the quartz scheduler. On its own, the quartz scheduler library can be quite …

How to access important filesystem paths of ant media server from an application or plugin?

While working on Ant Media Server projects, reading & writing data from the filesystem can be a very frequent task in the workflow. It is therefore important to know how to access the various directories where configuration & other useful data is commonly stored. In this article, we will explore different ways to access important …

Building an API to fetch information about all connections in Ant Media Server

Ant Media Server has a comprehensive collection of REST APIs broadly divided into two categories – Broadcast REST Service & Management REST Service, that enable developers/admins to query & manage the server in a flexible manner. Sometimes however we might come across a custom requirement to while working on a system where the default APIs …

Execute custom logic via shell script after recording a stream with Wowza streaming engine

INTRODUCTION The OnRecord module for Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software can be used to execute custom logic after the recording of a stream has been completed. This means you need not bother about writing complex logic in java to do something after the recording has been completed. Some of the common tasks undertaken after recording …