PlayHub – The Ultimate Video CMS, Shorts, Film, Communities 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.