YouTube Live Streaming Software – Self-Hosted Multi-Stream Video Broadcaster

Take full control of your YouTube Live streaming with a powerful self-hosted live streaming platform designed for creators, agencies, businesses, and professional broadcasters. Upload and manage videos, schedule live streams, broadcast pre-recorded content, monitor streaming status, manage media, and control your entire streaming infrastructure from one modern dashboard.

Unlike cloud-only streaming services, this solution can be deployed on your own VPS or AWS EC2 server, giving you greater control over your application, media processing, storage, and streaming infrastructure.

🚀 Key Features

🎥 YouTube Live Streaming

• Stream directly to YouTube Live
• Support for RTMP/RTMPS streaming
• Create and manage live streams
• Add YouTube stream keys
• Start and stop streams from the dashboard
• Monitor active streaming processes
• Dedicated FFmpeg-based streaming worker
• Multiple concurrent stream support
• Automatic stream process management
• Stream status monitoring

📹 Video Management

• Upload videos through the dashboard
• Large video upload support
• Video library management
• Video processing and optimization
• Media metadata management
• Video status tracking
• Ready / Processing / Failed states
• Reprocess failed media
• Remote video import
• YouTube URL import
• Automatic media processing with FFmpeg
• FFmpeg/FFprobe compatibility checking
• Original and optimized media storage
• Resolution and aspect-ratio preservation
• High-quality video processing

📅 Live Stream Scheduling

• Schedule live broadcasts
• Manage upcoming streams
• Configure stream start times
• Select videos for broadcasting
• Manage scheduled streaming jobs
• Queue-based background processing

⚡ High-Performance Processing

• Docker-based architecture
• Dedicated queue workers
• Redis-powered queues
• FFmpeg video processing
• FFprobe media analysis
• Background media processing
• Remote import workers
• Processing progress tracking
• Automatic stale-job recovery
• Failed-job handling
• Production-ready worker architecture

☁️ AWS S3 Storage

• Amazon S3 integration
• Customer-owned S3 storage
• Secure media storage
• Original media storage
• Processed media storage
• Scalable cloud storage architecture
• S3 health monitoring
• Configurable AWS region and bucket

📊 Dashboard & System Monitoring

• Modern administration dashboard
• Total Videos
• Ready Videos
• Active Streams
• Failed Streams
• Queued Imports
• Running Imports
• System Health monitoring
• Laravel health status
• Database status
• Redis status
• S3 status
• Queue Worker status
• FFmpeg status
• FFprobe status
• Disk monitoring
• Memory monitoring
• Remote Import Worker monitoring

🔐 Secure Authentication

• Secure admin authentication
• First-time setup wizard
• Email verification
• OTP-based setup
• Password setup
• Password reset
• Secure session management
• Authentication rate limiting
• Protected admin routes

🔑 License Management

The software includes an integrated License Server system for commercial software distribution.

• License activation
• Product authentication
• Installation ID generation
• Domain binding
• License validation
• License status checking
• License deactivation
• Signed license tokens
• Temporary License Server outage grace handling
• Server-side Product Key authentication
• Server-side Product Secret authentication
• Secure license credential storage

🛡️ Security

• Server-side license credentials
• Encrypted sensitive license data
• Secure API communication
• HTTPS support
• CSRF protection
• Rate limiting
• Secure authentication
• Protected environment configuration
• No default production admin password
• Secure secret-file architecture
• Production-focused Docker deployment

🐳 Docker Deployment

The application is designed for modern VPS/cloud deployment using Docker.

• Docker Compose
• PHP/Laravel application container
• Dedicated worker container
• PostgreSQL database
• Redis
• Nginx
• FFmpeg
• FFprobe
• yt-dlp
• Production-ready container architecture
• Easy deployment on AWS EC2 and compatible VPS providers

🌐 Domain & SSL

• Custom domain support
• HTTPS deployment
• Let's Encrypt SSL support
• Domain-based license binding
• Production Nginx configuration
• Customer-specific domain configuration

📥 Remote Import

• Import videos from supported YouTube URLs
• yt-dlp integration
• High-quality source selection
• Video/audio download
• Automatic processing
• Import queue management
• Import status tracking
• Import failure handling

⚙️ Media Quality & Processing

• High-quality source selection
• Up to 4K source support where available
• H.264/AAC processing
• Configurable CRF-based encoding
• GOP/keyframe optimization
• FPS preservation
• Aspect-ratio preservation
• No unnecessary global downscaling
• Automatic media compatibility detection

📦 Production-Ready Architecture

Built with modern technologies:

• Laravel 12
• React
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Nginx
• FFmpeg
• FFprobe
• yt-dlp
• Amazon S3

🏗️ Self-Hosted & Fully Controlled

Deploy the platform on your own infrastructure and maintain control over your:

• Application
• Database
• Media files
• S3 storage
• Streaming infrastructure
• Domain
• Server resources
• License activation

No mandatory third-party streaming dashboard is required for the core application.

👨‍💻 Designed for Commercial Software Sellers

The integrated licensing architecture makes the platform suitable for selling as a self-hosted software product.

Each customer can receive:

• Customer-specific license
• Domain-bound activation
• Installation-bound license
• License validation
• License expiration management
• Secure Product Key authentication

The customer receives the application package separately from sensitive licensing credentials, helping protect the seller's licensing infrastructure.

📦 Easy Customer Installation

The customer delivery package includes:

• Complete application source
• Docker configuration
• Backend
• Frontend
• Nginx configuration
• Deployment scripts
• Environment example
• License setup documentation
• Installation documentation
• Security documentation
• Complete installation guide

The setup process guides the customer through:

Server → Docker → Environment → License → Admin Setup → OTP → Dashboard → S3 → YouTube → First Stream

🎯 Perfect For

• YouTube content creators
• Live streaming agencies
• Digital agencies
• Businesses
• Media companies
• Streaming service providers
• SaaS entrepreneurs
• Self-hosted software sellers
• Developers building their own streaming infrastructure

🔥 Why Choose a Self-Hosted Solution?

With your own infrastructure, you have greater control over the application's deployment, storage, processing and streaming environment. You can select your own VPS/cloud infrastructure and configure resources according to your streaming workload.

Technology Stack

Backend: Laravel 12, PHP
Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS
Database: PostgreSQL
Cache & Queue: Redis
Streaming: FFmpeg / RTMP / RTMPS
Media Tools: FFmpeg, FFprobe, yt-dlp
Storage: Amazon S3
Web Server: Nginx
Deployment: Docker & Docker Compose
License: Secure License Server API

⚠️ Requirements

This is a self-hosted server application. Customers need a compatible Linux VPS/cloud server, domain, Docker/Compose environment, and required third-party services such as AWS S3, email provider and YouTube access.

Server requirements may vary depending on the number of simultaneous streams and video-processing workload.