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What's Being Heated
A Client Name project, forged at The Creativity Foundry.
Platform Research: Video CMS
We evaluated the open-source video CMS landscape against this brief. Top pick: MediaCMS (modern stack, HLS adaptive streaming, active development). Closest PHP/AVS-like match: AVideo. Federation option: PeerTube. Full head-to-head comparison in the build brief — tap below.
View full researchThe Brief
“A website that users can upload videos to, which can be streamed like a YouTube-type site for a niche video market.” — Client Name, project request
Under the Hood
What "YouTube-type streaming" actually means in this build:
Streaming
HLS adaptive bitrate — player auto-switches quality to match the viewer's connection
Transcoding
FFmpeg pipeline: every upload is re-encoded into multiple renditions
1080p Full HD
H.264 High profile, ~8 Mbps, 1920×1080
720p HD
H.264 Main profile, ~5 Mbps, 1280×720
480p SD
H.264 Baseline profile, ~2.5 Mbps, 854×480
Seek / Scrub
Pseudo-streaming via Lighttpd — jump to any timestamp without downloading the whole file
Uploads
Chunked + resumable, up to 2 GB per file, progress bar
Shortlisted platforms
MediaCMS, AVideo, PeerTube — all three running as live demos below
Heating in the Forge
Three working demos, one for each shortlisted platform. Tap a chalk mark to open it.