Museums & Cultural Centres
Gallery screens play the museum's own film, a members' library holds talks and archive footage, and an opening goes out as a live channel — on servers the institution runs, working on the gallery network even without the internet.
The challenges
Exhibition film has to play reliably on screens inside the building, including a gallery or a basement where the connection is poor or absent.
Recorded talks, archive film and past exhibitions are valuable to members and researchers, but the institution cannot hand them to a public platform.
Membership is often sold at the door or in the shop, and the access must start there with a code rather than an online account.
How Xtream UI Pro helps
The panel and the viewers' apps work on a local network without internet, activated by the licence key, so the gallery screens keep playing when the uplink is down.
Talks, archive film and past exhibitions are movies and series in categories by exhibition or year; a bouquet for members is granted by the members' package.
An opening night or a lecture goes out from an encoder over RTMP as a live channel, and the recording joins the library afterwards.
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.
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
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
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
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
Connection and traffic views, audit logs, Prometheus metrics, alerts by mail, Telegram or webhook, maintenance mode and a built-in update check.
/metrics endpoints · job queue with leases · encrypted database backups
In the panel
Screenshots of the dashboard of a fresh installation with the sample catalogue. Nothing is mocked up.
Infrastructure architecture
A management server in the museum's technical room, gallery screens on the local network, a members' library of talks and archive film, and a live channel for openings.
Pick a part of the diagram to see what it does.
In a museum deployment the sources are the exhibition film, the digitised archive and the encoder at the lecture hall; the panel holds the library, the screens' lines and the members' lines; the origin serves the galleries and the members; a shop or desk system connects through the Reseller API.
The panel, the API, the worker and the origin run on a server in the building; the licence key is activated on site, so the gallery network works without the internet.
Exhibition film and archive recordings are uploaded as movies and series, with categories per exhibition and per year; one bouquet for the galleries and one for members.
Members' packages are sold at the desk; each sale is an activation code that opens a members' line with the membership period as its expiry.
The hall's encoder pushes a live channel over RTMP for an opening or a talk; members watch it, and the recording is added to the library afterwards.
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, offline activation on the gallery network, the archive library, activation codes at the desk, live openings, and troubleshooting, step by step.
Read the setup guide| In your industry | On the platform |
|---|---|
| Exhibition film and archive | VOD catalogue: movies and series with seasons and episodes, categories and metadata |
| Opening or lecture broadcast | Live channel: a stream with its sources, EPG and output formats |
| Gallery or members' collection | Bouquet: a named set of channels, films or series that a package grants |
| Visitor or member access | Line: one access with its package, bouquets, expiry, connection limit and outputs |
| Membership period | Expiry date of the line, renewed by a package, a credit or the API |
| Devices per member | Max connections of the line: how many devices may watch at once |
A ticketing, shop or membership system connects through the Reseller API (create, renew, disable a line) and webhooks; a commerce platform with a ready connector can sell memberships online. Encoders connect over RTMP. There is no native integration with a specific museum or ticketing product.
The galleries can run entirely on the local network; playback links are signed and expire; a connection limit per line keeps a membership personal; a gallery screen's line can be bound to its address; panel accounts use two-factor sign-in, permission groups and the audit log.
The institution needs the rights to the film, the images and the recordings it shows, including loans 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 panel and the apps run on a local network once the licence key is activated offline; feeds from outside the building still need the uplink.
The desk creates an activation code for the members' package; the member enters it in the player and the line starts, with the membership period as its expiry.
Yes. The hall's encoder pushes a live channel over RTMP, and the recording is uploaded to the library as a movie or an episode.
