LIVE CHANNEL MANAGER

Live Channel Management Software

Turn your video library into a managed live channel with time slots, episode sequencing, and 24/7 automated broadcasting. Series, documentaries, video essays, and longform content delivered on a real schedule.

WHAT IS LIVE CHANNEL MANAGEMENT?

Scheduled Programming, Not Playlist Looping

Scheduled Programming

Program time slots, episode sequencing, and day-of-week blocks. Your content airs on a schedule, not in a random loop.

Longform Content Library

Import TV series, documentaries, video essays, and recorded shows. Organize content into playlists and programming blocks.

Multi-Platform Delivery

Publish your channel through the built-in HLS web player, YouTube Live, Discord, or any RTMP destination. One schedule, multiple outputs.

WHAT YOU CAN PROGRAM

From TV Series to Documentaries to Community Content

Series and Episodes

Build sequential playlists with automatic next-episode progression. Rotate through seasons and keep your audience following along.

Documentary and Educational

Create themed programming blocks with topic rotations and scheduled premieres. Curate a channel around subjects your audience cares about.

Creator and Community

Program video essays, event recordings, campus broadcasts, church services, and local content. Any longform video works as channel programming.

THE PROBLEM

Cloud Channel Platforms Get Expensive Fast

Hourly Costs Scale with Longform

Cloud encoding bills grow with every hour of video you broadcast. Longform content like series episodes and documentaries means higher costs every month.

Storage Limits Hit Fast with Video Libraries

A single season of a series can consume gigabytes. Cloud platforms cap your storage or charge per-GB overages as your library grows.

No Real Scheduling Depth

Most cloud tools just loop playlists. No time slots, no episode sequencing, no day-of-week blocks. That is playlist management, not channel scheduling.

BROADCAST MODES

THREE MODES OF OPERATION

SavePoint's Video Station Manager handles pre-rendered longform content delivery. Program your video library into a real broadcast schedule with time slots, transitions, and automated playout.

Radio Station Manager

Internet Radio Automation
  • Schedule audio playlists with segment rotations and shuffle logic for unattended playback.
  • Publish now-playing metadata, album art, and track announcements automatically.
  • Go live with DJ Mode for voice-over broadcasting, then hand back to automation.
Best for: Internet radio stations, lofi streams, podcast replay channels, music rotation stations.
Channel Mode
16:9

Video Station Manager

Scheduled Video Playout
  • Build recurring video rotations with day-of-week and time-slot scheduling.
  • Pre-render transitions and overlays ahead of broadcast to reduce live encoding load.
  • Publish pre-recorded programming to YouTube Live and RTMP destinations on autopilot.
Best for: 24/7 YouTube channels, music video TV, promotional video loops, pre-recorded content networks.

Broadcast Station Manager

Live + Pre-Recorded Hybrid
  • Mix pre-recorded segments with live broadcast sessions in a single stream. (coming soon)
  • Switch between scenes, overlays, and media sources during broadcast. (scene management coming soon)
  • Multicast manager for publishing to multiple destinations simultaneously.
Best for: Live podcasts and talkshows, host curated multi-media experiences, creator streaming.

Radio and Video station management are production-ready. Live broadcast management for podcasts, presentations, and real-time scene switching is experimental and under active development.

HOW IT WORKS

Three Steps to Your Live Channel

1

Import Your Video Library

Add your series episodes, films, documentaries, and recordings. Any MP4 or WebM file. No software-imposed storage limits.

2

Program Your Schedule

Use the weekly schedule grid to assign time slots, episode rotations, and themed programming blocks. Morning documentaries, evening series, weekend specials.

3

Pre-Render and Broadcast

SavePoint pre-renders transitions and overlays ahead of playback, then streams cached segments 24/7 to your configured destinations.

CHANNEL MANAGEMENT FEATURES

Everything You Need to Run a Channel

Video Library Management

Import and organize series, documentaries, video essays, and recordings. Tag, sort, and build playlists from your entire video collection.

Weekly Schedule Grid

Visual schedule builder with time slots, day-of-week blocks, and segment rotations. See your entire programming week at a glance.

Pre-Render Pipeline

Transitions and visual overlays are rendered before broadcast. Stream cached segments instead of live-encoding every frame.

Dynamic Overlays

Channel branding, now-playing information, and program details layered over your video content. Professional channel presentation.

13+ Transitions

Crossfade, dissolve, slide, blur, and more. Every segment change gets a professional transition, configured per-segment or channel-wide.

Multi-Destination Output

HLS web player (included). YouTube Live, Discord, and RTMP outputs available with Year Pass. One schedule, every platform.

Evening Programming Block
6 items • 3:24:08
SEQUENTIAL
pilot_episode_s01e01.mp4
42:18
nature_documentary_ep03.mp4
51:22
film_festival_short.mp4
18:45
video_essay_architecture.mp4
34:07
community_event_recording.mp4
28:51
series_finale_s02e12.mp4
28:45
3 favorites in rotationEvening programming playlist
VIDEO LIBRARY

LONGFORM VIDEO PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT

Import series episodes, documentaries, video essays, and recorded shows into your channel library. Build programming playlists with sequential or shuffle playback, boost favorites into heavier rotation, and exclude content without deleting it.

Folder Scanning

Import video files from local directories with automatic metadata extraction. MP4, WebM, and other standard video formats.

Playlist Scheduling

Create playlists with sequential or shuffle playback. Assign playlists to schedule segments for automated programming rotation.

Favorites & Boost

Mark content as favorites to increase their frequency in rotation. Weight your programming toward preferred episodes and shows.

Exclusion Lists

Hide content from broadcast rotation without removing it from your library. Useful for seasonal, retired, or archived programming.

WEEKLY SCHEDULING

Program Your Entire Week

Arrange your segments into a weekly schedule. Different music for morning, afternoon, and night, automatically.

Your Segments
Morning Energy
Lofi Rotation
Drive Time
Evening Vibes
Night Owl
Weekend Mix
Live DJ Set
Weekly Schedule
Add Segment
06:00
08:00
10:00
12:00
14:00
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
MON
Morning Energy
Lofi Rotation
Drive Time
Evening Vibes
TUE
Morning Energy
Midday Beats
ID
Drive Time
Evening Vibes
Night Owl
WED
Morning Energy
Lofi Rotation
Drive Time
Evening Vibes
THU
Morning Energy
Midday Beats
Afternoon Shuffle
Evening Vibes
Night Owl
FRI
Morning Energy
Lofi Rotation
Drive Time
Evening Vibes
SAT
Weekend Brunch
Weekend Mix
ID
Live DJ Set
SUN
Weekend Brunch
Sunday Chill
Night Owl
BROADCAST PERFORMANCE

BUILT FOR 24/7 VIDEO BROADCASTING

Video content is the most expensive media to live-encode. A 24/7 live channel running continuous real-time encoding keeps CPU and GPU usage at sustained high levels, driving up hardware costs and thermal load.

SavePoint pre-renders transitions and visual overlays before broadcast, then streams cached video segments during playout. This is where longform content benefits most: a 50-minute documentary with pre-rendered transitions costs almost nothing to stream compared to live-encoding every frame.

The result: a live channel that runs reliably on modest hardware. No thermal throttling, no surprise load spikes, no need for dedicated encoding GPUs.

6x
Lower Load
24/7
Uptime
RENDER PIPELINE
Compose
Build the segment with the components system, or import finished media.
Encode to station profileMATCHED
Every clip is pre-rendered and encoded to the exact output you determined.
VIDEO1080p · 60fps · H.264 · 6 Mbps
AUDIO48 kHz · 320 kbps · AAC
Cache
Output is stored ready to play, no live rendering at broadcast time.
Stream
Cached segments stream with flat, predictable resource usage.
SAVEPOINT ENGINE
STABLE
CPU Usage15%
85% headroom
Memory420MB
Stable allocation
LoadLow
Reserved capacity
6x
Lower Load
24/7
Uptime
Predictable
SELF-HOSTED

Your Channel, Your Hardware, Your Content

No Monthly Subscription

No recurring SaaS charges for the core station manager. Platform broadcasting features are available through an optional Year Pass ($69/year).

No Storage Caps

Your video library lives on your drives. SavePoint does not limit how much content you import. Capacity depends on your hardware.

No Viewer Caps

SavePoint does not gate viewer capacity behind pricing tiers. Viewer limits depend on your hosting, bandwidth, and streaming architecture.

SELF-HOSTED CHANNEL

RUN YOUR CHANNEL ANYWHERE

Local Setup & Testing

Build and test your programming schedule on a home computer or local network. Configure playlists, overlays, and stream destinations before going live with your channel.

Deploy to a VPS for 24/7 Broadcasting

Move the same configuration to a Node-ready VPS or dedicated server for always-on channel broadcasting. No reconfiguration needed. Your schedule, video library, and settings transfer as-is.

Same station software. Local or production.
LOCAL
PRODUCTION
BROADCAST DESTINATIONS

Publish Your Channel Everywhere

Download SavePoint

The core SavePoint station manager is free to use, including the built-in HLS web player. Platform broadcasting features (such as YouTube and Discord outputs) require a Year Pass ($69/year). Get instant access. View pricing