Video for Roola

Watch it.
Upload it.
Go live.

Two halves. Watch, for the people who watch — no account needed. Studio, for the people who make it: your organisation's channel, live from your own encoder, with a player that keeps going when you leave the page.

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  • No account to watch
  • RTMPS in, HLS out
  • Your organisation's channel
  • In your Roola feed

Two halves. One backend.

One for the people who watch. One for the people who make it.

Requiring a sign-in to look at something is how a video platform stops being one. So Watch works signed out, and Studio is where the work is.

Watch · for everybody

Find it. Play it. No account.

Every browser, every phone, nothing to install. An account is only for subscribing, liking or running a channel.

  • Search and categories, to find the thing you came for.
  • Likes, and a way to report a video.
  • A player that drops into the corner and keeps going.
  • Sponsored cards from Adverts, marked as such.

Studio · for the channel

Four pages, and that's on purpose.

A studio is a place of work, not a dashboard of graphs. The four things a channel needs to do are the four pages.

ContentWhat you've published and what's waiting.
UploadDrop a file, give it a title, publish when you're ready.
LiveYour stream key and a preview of what's going out.
ChannelThe name, the handle, the banner, and who on your team can sign in.

Your channel

Your channel. Your audience. Your call.

A channel that's yours until it isn't was never yours. On Helix a channel belongs to the organisation, not to whoever set it up — for anyone with a camera and something to say.

  • Newsrooms
  • Campaigns
  • Councils
  • Membership bodies
  • Companies
  • Constituency offices
01

The organisation's, not one person's

A channel belongs to an organisation on Roola. People come and go; the channel stays where it is.

02

Hand a colleague the keys

Add a colleague, take one away, and the channel stays yours. Studio is where you manage who has access.

03

Dress the channel

The name, the handle, the banner. It looks like you, because you set it up to.

04

Public once published

Upload a video, give it a title, publish when you're ready. Then anybody can watch it, account or not.

Go live

Live from your desk.

A stream key, your own encoder, and you're on air. Watched everywhere the web reaches. It works with the kit you already own.

1 · Key

Copy the stream key

Studio gives your channel one, on the Live page, beside the server address.

2 · Encoder

Paste it and press start

Into OBS, or whatever encoder you use. Point it at Helix. No plugin, nothing for your viewers to install.

3 · You're on

Watch what went out

Studio's preview sits closer to the live edge than a viewer's player. The person on camera needs to know what went out now.

Studio has one warning next to the stream key: Anyone with this key can stream as your channel. That's the whole security model of live video, and we'd rather say it out loud than hide it behind a padlock icon. If it leaks, reset it.

The corner player

Leave the page. Don't leave the video.

Ever had a video restart because you clicked something? On Helix it drops into the corner and keeps going while you scroll, and while you go and look at something else.

  • The same video element, moved to the corner. Not a second copy seeked to where you were.
  • Same second, same sound. Nothing stops, restarts or re-buffers.
  • Why does it keep playing when you click away? Because you didn't press pause. Close it in the corner.

Subscribers

Subscribe here. See it everywhere.

A channel you subscribe to lands in your Roola feed: each new video once it's published, and the channel while it's live, playing in its card. Newest first, every time.

What it does

Puts every new video and every live broadcast in your Roola feed.

What it does not

Get quietly turned down because you didn't watch the last three.

For the organisation running the channel, that's the promise that matters: the people who chose you will see you.

Opening soon

Join the waiting list. Bring a camera.

Watching won't need an account, so the list is for channels. Helix isn't open yet and nobody is on it — we're saying so cheerfully. If your organisation has something to put on air, leave an address and you'll be among the first through.

One email when we open. Nothing else, ever.