Media & Content Creators
The studio runs a channel around the clock and a library of its shows, supporters subscribe through the studio's shop, and affiliates sell access from partner accounts — with the audience and the revenue staying yours.
The challenges
On a public platform the audience, the terms and the revenue belong to the platform, and the studio cannot take its viewers with it.
A subscription must open the library on payment, hold it while paid and close it when the supporter stops, without anyone handling accounts.
New episodes arrive every week, old seasons go to back catalogue, and a channel should keep running between releases.
How Xtream UI Pro helps
The studio's playout feeds a live channel that runs all day; shows are series with seasons and episodes in categories, grouped into bouquets that a package grants.
A connector for the studio's shop (WooCommerce, Shopify and others) or the Reseller API creates a line when a supporter subscribes and renews it on each payment.
An affiliate or a distributor is a partner account (reseller) with credits and its own lines, so it can sell access without touching the catalogue.
Platform capabilities
The capabilities below are the ones this deployment relies on. Each is in the product today; nothing here is planned or on request.
Live channels from your own sources, with EPG, catch-up and timeshift where the source allows, delivered as HLS or MPEG-TS to the apps and boxes your viewers use.
Origin hub with one upstream per channel · RTMP in and out · ffmpeg transcoding
Movies, series with seasons and episodes, and radio, organised in categories and bouquets, with TMDB metadata and an ingest job that downloads and encodes your sources.
Signed, time-limited playback links · per-node VOD cache
A line is one viewer's access: package, bouquets, expiry, connection limit and output formats, with activation codes, trials and renewals following the same rules everywhere.
Xtream Codes API, M3U/XMLTV, MAG and Enigma2 portals, web player
Delegated accounts with credits, permissions and their own dashboard, up to five levels deep, for the distributors, operators and resellers you work with.
Groups and permissions · credit ledger · sub-partners
Create, renew and suspend access from your own systems through the Reseller API, receive signed webhooks, and connect billing or commerce platforms with a ready connector.
Reseller API with idempotent request ids · Admin API keys · 17 connectors
Two-factor sign-in, sealed secrets at rest, signed playback links bound to the viewer, IP and country rules, connection limits and brute-force protection.
TOTP · AES-sealed keys · HMAC-signed URLs · GeoIP and ISP rules
In the panel
Screenshots of the dashboard of a fresh installation with the sample catalogue. Nothing is mocked up.
Infrastructure architecture
A management server, a 24/7 channel from the studio's playout, a library of shows, supporters subscribing through a WooCommerce shop, and affiliates with partner accounts.
Pick a part of the diagram to see what it does.
In a creator deployment the sources are the studio's playout encoder and the finished episodes; the panel holds the library, the packages and the supporters' lines; the origin serves the audience, with nodes added in the regions where it grows; the shop connects through a connector, and affiliates through partner accounts.
One server runs the panel, the API, the worker and the origin; the studio's staff get partner accounts with their own permissions.
The playout pushes over RTMP to a live channel; each show is a series with seasons and episodes; bouquets group the channel and the shows by tier.
The WooCommerce connector creates a line when a supporter subscribes, with the billing period as expiry, renews it on each payment and disables it on cancellation.
Each affiliate gets a partner account with credits and a package at its own price; its sales appear as lines under that account.
Configuration mapping
The platform has no industry-specific objects: a bouquet, a line, a package or a partner account is used as the concept your industry needs. These are conceptual mappings, not native features of that industry.
Prerequisites, installation, the channel and the shows, supporters from the shop, affiliates, expiry and troubleshooting, step by step.
Read the setup guide| In your industry | On the platform |
|---|---|
| The studio's channel | Live channel: a stream with its sources, EPG and output formats |
| Show library | VOD catalogue: movies and series with seasons and episodes, categories and metadata |
| Subscription tier | Bouquet: a named set of channels, films or series that a package grants |
| Supporter access | Line: one access with its package, bouquets, expiry, connection limit and outputs |
| Billing period | Expiry date of the line, renewed by a package, a credit or the API |
| Affiliate or distributor account | Partner account (reseller): a delegated dashboard with credits, permissions and its own lines |
| Shop or membership integration | Reseller API and webhooks: the operations of the panel from your own system |
Commerce platforms with a ready connector (WooCommerce, Shopify, PrestaShop, Odoo and others) create and renew supporters' lines on payment; any other system uses the Reseller API and webhooks. Encoders connect over RTMP. There is no native integration with a specific creator-membership product.
A connection limit per line keeps a subscription from being shared; playback links are signed and expire; an affiliate's partner account sees only its own lines; the studio's accounts use two-factor sign-in, permission groups and the audit log.
The studio needs the rights to everything it publishes, including music, guests and archive material; the platform supplies no content and no rights. Standard plans apply.
Content Rights & Acceptable UseHelp centre
The questions operators ask before a deployment. The help centre has the general ones.
Help centreYes. The shop's connector or the Reseller API creates the supporter's line on payment and renews it each period; the platform does not take payments itself.
Yes. A live channel from your playout runs continuously; shows of the library can also be offered on demand next to it.
Yes. A partner account holds credits and its own lines, and its permission group limits it to selling; it is a delegated account, not an isolated tenant.
