Equestria.tv is the realtime video sharing site operated by Poniverse. The site's software is based on the CyTube project.
Our fork uses Poniverse accounts for authentication, features our own branding, and includes a number of tweaks for our needs.
- Standalone web/socket.io server
- Optional SSL support for socket.io and the account API
- Synchronized playback from the following sources:
- YouTube (individual videos + playlists)
- Google Docs videos
- Vimeo
- Dailymotion
- Soundcloud
- Raw video/audio files (via video.js)
- Embedding of the following sources:
- livestream.com
- twitch.tv
- justin.tv
- ustream.tv
- RTMP streams
- Custom
<iframe>and<object>embeds
- Channel customization
- HTML Message of the Day
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Permissions
- Tiered ranks (Site admin > Channel admin > Moderator > Leader > Member > Guest > Anonymous)
- Chat filters (based on regular expressions)
- Lock/unlock playlist to allow additions by non-moderators (configurable with permissions)
- Searchable library of videos
- Integrated YouTube search
- Save/load playlists per user account
- Polls
- Voteskip (can be disabled by a channel moderator)
- Auto-AFK status (can be configured per-channel)
- Leader
- Grants control of playback to a user (can pause/seek)
- Can also be used to grant temporary mod-like powers to a user
- Not necessary for synchronization as the server has an internal timer
- Channel state saves/loads on restart
- Account management
- Password change
- Password reset (via email)
- Profile avatar and text
- Moderation
- Mute users
- Kick users
- Ban users by name
- Ban users by IP address (and by /24 range)
- Administration
- Log viewer
- Global bans
- Search registered channels and users
- Currently loaded channels
- Stats (usercount, channelcount, RAM usage)
CyTube's installation instructions
Equestria.tv comes with a Vagrantfile that includes all dependencies. After
running vagrant up, copy the config.template.yaml file to config.yaml,
get a Poniverse API key from a Poniverse developer, and insert it into
config.yaml.
After that, vagrant ssh and /vagrant/run.sh should bring up your own copy
of Equestria.tv at http://192.168.39.19:8080/!
Please open a GitHub Issue.
Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for the full license text.