How to Publish Your Playout Channels to Muvi One

Introduction

The Publish to Muvi One feature allows you to publish your Muvi Playout channels directly to your Muvi One website and apps. Instead of sharing separate player links, you can make your Playout channels part of your OTT platform and allow your users to access them alongside your regular content.

Once published, your channels appear as regular content on your Muvi One platform, with support for posters, banners, categories, and frontend URLs.

Benefits of Publishing Playout Channels to Muvi One

Publishing your Playout channels to Muvi One provides the following benefits:

Seamless OTT experience: Users can watch your Playout channels directly from your Muvi One website and apps without being redirected to external player pages.
Content discovery: Published channels can appear alongside your regular videos and other content.
Device-specific artwork: You can add posters and banners optimized for web, mobile, and TV devices.
Monetization: You can use Subscriptions and Pay Per View (PPV) for your published channels, where supported.
Frontend URLs: Each published channel can have its own URL, making it easier to access and share.
Centralized experience: Channels can be presented within the same OTT platform as your regular video content.

Prerequisites

Before publishing a Playout channel to Muvi One, ensure that:

You have an active Muvi Playout and Muvi One subscription.
The channel you want to publish is created and configured in Muvi Playout.
Your Muvi One website/apps are configured and available for your users.

Enabling Display EPG Details

By enabling this feature, you can display the EPG on your Muvi One website/app. When the end-users will visit the “Content Details” page on the website, they can view the EPG of the channel.

To enable this feature, navigate to “Content Management” -->”Content Settings” in the Dashboard.
Click on the “Settings” tab.
Under “General Settings”, enable “Display EPG Details”.

Publishing a Playout Channel to Muvi One

First, you need to create a channel in Playout and then you can select the option to publish it to Muvi One. There are 2 steps to create a channel. In the first step you can add the basic channel details and in the second step you can add additional details.

Step 1:

Navigate to “Content Management” à “Content Library” in the Dashboard.
Click on “Add New”.
In the “Content Type” select “Channel” from the drop-down menu.
Click on the “Edit Icon” on the top to add a Channel Name.
In the “Channel Type” select the channel type (e.g., Video, Audio).
In the “Channel Source”, select “Playout” if you want to create the channel using Playout.
Select “External Channel”, if you want to integrate an external channel using the HLS Feed URL.
The “Permalink” will be automatically generated.
If you have selected the Playout option as channel source, then select the “Encoding Profile” for the channel. If you have not created any encoding profile, you can select the default profile.
If you have selected the “External Channel”, then, type the HLS Feed URL of that external channel.
Select a “Category” from the list. You can select multiple categories for the channel.
Click on “Save and Continue”.
The channel will be created.

Step 2:

Click on the “Design” tab.
In “Filler Media”, upload a filler media for the channel. It will be played when there is a blank slot or no program is scheduled for a slot.
In “Channel Logo”, upload a channel logo that will appear on the channel.
In “Channel Poster”, upload a poster for the channel. It will be appeared on the website/app. You can add the poster for Web, Mobile and TV apps.
In “Channel Banner”, upload a banner for the channel. It will be appeared on the website/app.
Click on the “Monetization” tab to add monetization for the channel.
You can add “Subscription”, or “PPV” monetization for the channel.
Click on the “Security” tab to add “Geo-Block” for the channel. You can Geo-Block the channel for any specific country, state or city.
On the right-hand side, in “Channel Source”, select “Add to EPG”, if you want to display EPG for the Channel on the website/app.
Type a story/description about the channel.
Add the “Search Tags” for the channel.
Select the option “Publish to Muvi One Website/Apps”.
Click on “Save & Publish”.