Build a 24/7 Channel
A created channel is a channel you assemble yourself: the panel loops a playlist of your own videos into a continuous live stream. A box-set becomes a channel that airs around the clock, a folder of films becomes a movie channel — no external source involved.
Open Created Channels → Create Channel.
Details
Name, icon, categories and bouquets — the same conventions as a live stream, including creating categories and bouquets on the fly by typing a new name. Then the choice that shapes the rest of the screen: selection type.
Three ways to fill the channel
Series — pick one of your TV series and the channel plays its episodes. Order by episode number or your own arrangement.
VOD selection — browse your movie library, filterable by category, and add titles one by one. The channel plays your hand-picked selection.
File browser — walk the server’s filesystem and pick files or whole folders directly, before they are ever added to your VOD catalogue.
Whichever you choose, the content must already live on your servers — a created channel plays your library, it does not ingest URLs.
Review — the running order
The Review tab shows the final playlist. Reorder with move up and down, sort A to Z, or remove entries. This order is the broadcast order, looping forever — a viewer joining at any moment lands wherever the loop happens to be, exactly like linear TV.
The options that matter
Re-encode on edit — rebuild the channel’s stream after changes to the playlist.
Allow recording — let the channel be recorded like any live stream.
Transcode profile — re-encode the output; leave it off to pass files through untouched.
RTMP push — mirror the channel to external RTMP destinations while it runs, each with its own target URL and key.
Servers and on-demand
The server tree works exactly as for live streams: drag servers between enabled and offline, and the channel runs on every enabled one. On demand is available here too — a niche channel that starts when the first viewer arrives and stops when the last one leaves costs nothing to keep in the line-up.
Running the channel
Created channels have their own list, refreshed every few seconds, with start, stop, restart and kill per row, a pop-out player for a quick look, and modals showing current sources and connected viewers. A created channel behaves like any other live channel from the subscriber’s side — it sits in bouquets, carries an EPG if you assign one, and counts connections the same way.
That is the whole recipe: content you already have, arranged once, broadcasting forever. For the library itself, movies and series have their own screens — and the API can create and control channels programmatically.