TV channel playout API — schedule management, playlist automation, and broadcast control built with Laravel.
A comprehensive TV broadcast playout automation system built with Laravel, Filament, and Livewire. This system provides channel management, content scheduling, live streaming, distribution management, and automated playout capabilities for television broadcasting operations.
It powers the scheduling and broadcast-control backend behind a full TV playout suite — pair it with the tv-playout-frontend dashboard for the operator UI (see Related projects).
- Create and manage multiple TV channels
- Configure channel settings and branding
- Role-based access control for channels
- Channel metadata and analytics integration
- Media library with file upload and organization
- Folder-based content organization
- Content tagging and metadata management
- Version control for media assets
- Content preview and analytics
- Permission management for content access
- Visual schedule editor with drag-and-drop
- Recurring schedule templates
- Automated playout engine
- Ad insertion and scheduling
- Conflict detection and alerts
- Content assignment to channels
- Live stream management and monitoring
- Multiple encoding profiles (ABR - Adaptive Bitrate)
- Stream recording and archiving
- Real-time monitoring dashboard
- Scheduled live broadcasts
- Multi-platform content distribution
- CDN configuration and management
- Platform connectors (YouTube, Facebook, etc.)
- Distribution monitoring and analytics
- API integrations for third-party services
- Alerting system for distribution issues
- Framework: Laravel 11
- Admin Panel: Filament 3
- Frontend: Livewire 3, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS
- Authentication: Laravel Jetstream with Sanctum
- Database: MySQL/PostgreSQL
- File Storage: Local/S3 compatible storage
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/stukenov/tv-playout-backend.git
cd tv-playout-backend- Install dependencies
composer install
npm install- Configure environment
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate- Configure database in
.envfile
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=your_database
DB_USERNAME=your_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_password
- Run migrations
php artisan migrate- Build assets
npm run build- Start the server
php artisan serve- Register an account at
/register - Access the admin panel at
/admin - Create your first channel
- Upload media content to the library
- Create schedules and assign content
- Configure live streams and distribution platforms
- Monitor operations through the dashboard
- Channel: TV channels with settings and branding
- Content: Media content items
- Schedule: Playout schedules with timing
- LiveStream: Live broadcast configurations
- Media: File storage and metadata
- Distribution: Multi-platform distribution configs
- Platform: External distribution platforms
- CDN: Content delivery network settings
The system provides API endpoints for external integrations. Use Laravel Sanctum tokens for authentication.
- PHP 8.2+
- Composer
- Node.js 18+
- MySQL 8.0+ or PostgreSQL 13+
- FFmpeg (for media processing)
This backend is one piece of a larger broadcast suite. It pairs with a dedicated dashboard UI and works alongside the streaming and playout-core components:
- tv-playout-frontend — the operator dashboard UI for managing channels, schedules, and playout from a browser.
- live-streaming-server — live ingest and streaming server for the broadcast pipeline.
- fast-tv-playout-core — the low-level playout core that drives frame-accurate broadcast output.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2025 Saken Tukenov
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