Equestria.tv

About

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.

Features

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)

Installing

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/!

Feedback

Please open a GitHub Issue.

License