SELF-HOSTED VIDEO CMS • CREATOR COMMUNITY • MULTI-PARTICIPANT LIVE STREAMING

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PlayHub – Video CMS, Creator Community & Live Streaming Platform

PlayHub is a self-hosted platform for publishing video, building creator channels and communities, and producing multi-participant live streams. One installation covers uploads, Shorts, live rooms, replays, messaging, monetization, moderation, and administration.

Viewer Experience

• Responsive discovery pages for trending videos, categories, creators, live streams, and recommended content.
• Search across videos, channels, playlists, live streams, and tags.
• Video playback with quality selection, captions, saved progress, and watch history.
• Dedicated vertical Shorts feed with creator and engagement controls.
• Public creator channels with cover images, social links, verification, statistics, subscriptions, and notification settings.
• Public and private playlists, Watch Later, liked videos, favorites, bookmarks, history, and personal library collections.
• Comments, replies, reactions, mentions, stickers, media attachments for signed-in users, and content reporting.

Publishing & Creator Studio

• Guided local upload with resumable transfers, validation, progress, and processing status.
• FFmpeg and FFprobe processing for media details, orientation, thumbnails, and configured renditions.
• Custom thumbnails, categories, tags, language, audience settings, visibility, scheduling, and monetization controls.
• Direct URL import plus provider settings for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and Twitch.
• Admin mass import with category, visibility, tags, duplicate handling, and error controls.
• Creator Studio for managing videos, Shorts, comments, playlists, channel details, analytics, and earnings.
• Local media storage or configured S3-compatible object storage.

Communities & Messaging

• Creator community posts with text and media.
• Post reactions, threaded comments, reports, and categorized stickers.
• Community discovery and channel subscriptions.
• Private conversations opened directly from creator profiles.
• Notifications for account activity, content, live streams, replays, moderation, and participant events.

Multi-Participant Live Streaming

• Broadcast from a browser camera and microphone, screen share, or external RTMP encoder.
• Configure title, description, category, tags, visibility, schedule, thumbnail, and participant access before going live.
• Host, guest, participant, moderator, and viewer roles within the same room.
• Viewer join requests for audio-only or audio-and-video participation, subject to host or moderator approval.
• Guest invitations, username suggestions, backstage management, acceptance, and removal.
• Adaptive grid, host focus, split screen, screen share, and spotlight layouts.
• Automatic reconnect, media republishing, muted local host preview, and diagnostics for connections, devices, tracks, bitrate, latency, and frame rate.

Live Interaction & Moderation

• Live chat, reactions, pinned messages, slow mode, message deletion, and viewer restrictions.
• Polls and goal bars that update for hosts, participants, and viewers during the stream.
• Moderators can manage chat, ban viewers, restrict comments, approve join requests, and remove participants.
• Join, leave, removal, poll, gift, sticker, tip, and system events are retained for the replay.

Replay Experience

• Room-composite recording of the active stage, including participant labels and designed audio-only identity tiles.
• Replay processing, media inspection, thumbnail generation, and optional cloud replication.
• Responsive playback for portrait and landscape recordings inside a stable player area.
• Chat replay, chapters, top moments, stream events, comments, likes, clips, and contribution history.
• Replay analytics, creator details, related streams, tags, sharing, and replay-ready notifications for streamers, viewers, and participants.

Monetization

• Wallet balances, transaction history, and top-up checkout through configured Stripe or PayPal workflows.
• Preset and custom tips with configurable minimum and maximum values.
• Gifts and categorized super stickers with prices, wallet checks, live animations, and replay history.
• Memberships, creator earnings, platform commission, contribution totals, and payout records.
• Revenue reports with date filters, source breakdowns, creator performance, and export actions.
• Image, media, or trusted HTML advertisements with placement, scheduling, targeting, display rules, performance data, and VAST pre-roll settings.

Administration & Operations

• Dashboard and analytics: platform activity, growth, engagement, revenue, system health, recent changes, and exports.
• Users and creators: account status, roles, verification, quotas, bans, email actions, creator applications, suspension, and deletion controls.
• Content and live streams: videos, Shorts, posts, categories, approvals, featuring, bulk actions, imports, active rooms, scheduled streams, and replays.
• Moderation and support: reports with reported-item previews, assignments, priorities, resolutions, customer tickets, incidents, agents, and SLA status.
• Roles and permissions: custom admin roles, permission groups, invitations, scopes, team members, and access status.
• Commerce: ads, memberships, payments, commissions, creator earnings, gifts, stickers, and catalog management.
• Website settings: branding, navigation, authentication, email, SMS, uploads, imports, storage, live services, integrations, and maintenance.
• System tools: cache controls, logs, diagnostics, scheduler inventory, cron configuration, backups, and failed-job visibility.

Design, Branding & Localization

• Responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• Light and true-dark themes with configurable accent palettes, including Obsidian Gold.
• Uploaded logo and favicon support, plus editable homepage presentation copy.
• 128 bundled language packs with an admin translation editor.
• Consistent dialogs, dropdowns, mobile bottom sheets, notifications, loading states, and empty states.

Storage, Backups & Background Work

• Local storage and S3-compatible object-storage workflows.
• Selectable database, source, media, file, and folder backups with size inspection and large-file handling.
• Scheduled automatic backups with backup history and status summaries.
• Queue workers for media processing, replay finalization, notifications, and background tasks.
• Laravel Scheduler support for publishing, maintenance, backups, and recurring jobs.
• System logs, failed-job tracking, diagnostics, cache management, and administrative change history.

Guided Installation

1. Requirements: checks PHP, extensions, database access, Redis, Node.js, npm, FFmpeg, Docker, storage, HTTPS, disk capacity, and required process functions.
2. Configuration: collects website, database, Redis, timezone, license, and administrator details.
3. Installation: displays dependency installation, frontend build, migrations, gift and sticker catalogs, and administrator provisioning in a live console.
4. Complete: verifies the installation and opens the website.

The package also provides a Docker runtime installer and templates for LiveKit signaling, RTMP ingress, room-composite egress, configuration, and service startup.

Technology Stack

• Laravel 13
• React 19 and Vite
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Redis
• FFmpeg and FFprobe
• LiveKit, RTMP ingress, and room-composite egress
• Docker Engine and Docker Compose v2
• Background queues and Laravel Scheduler

Server Requirements

Please review these requirements before purchasing. PlayHub is a media-processing and real-time streaming application. Standard shared hosting is usually not suitable unless it provides all required binaries, background processes, Docker access, Redis, and open media ports.

• PHP 8.3 or newer with required PHP extensions
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Redis with private, authenticated access
• Node.js 20.19.0 or newer and npm 9 or newer
• FFmpeg and FFprobe
• Docker Engine and Docker Compose v2 for live streaming

See the full server requirements and installation guide before deployment.

Package Includes

• Laravel application source and Composer dependencies
• React and Vite frontend source
• Four-step web installer
• Database migrations and bundled catalog importers
• Gift and sticker catalog files
• Default logo and favicon
• LiveKit Docker runtime installer and templates
• Apache rules and Nginx configuration examples
• Online and package documentation

Third-Party Services & Important Notes

• Payment features require your own supported Stripe and/or PayPal credentials.
• Cloud storage requires a compatible provider account, bucket, credentials, and network configuration.
• External imports, email delivery, and SMS delivery depend on the corresponding third-party services and credentials.
• Live streaming requires the included Docker runtime to be installed and configured after the web installer finishes.
• Demo videos, images, users, transactions, and presentation statistics are for preview only and are not included as production content.
• Third-party trademarks belong to their respective owners. PlayHub is not affiliated with or endorsed by those providers.

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Documentation & Support

Documentation covers installation, server configuration, live streaming, storage, queues, scheduling, backups, security, troubleshooting, and application settings.

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