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The Auction Events Platform is a Laravel PHP web application streaming live video from an auction event, using the LiveKit Open source WebRTC infrastructure.
The Auction Events Platform for Creators
The platform allows creators to run a live auction which is a hybrid event, with bidders in the auction hall and online. Online bidders watch a live video and audio stream of the auction hall and bid via a web application. An auction event can be purely virtual with no auction hall.
An auction may run for a few hours with items coming up for bidding in sequence. A creator runs the auction, streaming it from a camera and microphone attached to the creator’s computer.
The Platform Architecture
The platform is a web application built with the TALL stack:
LiveKit
LiveKit is an open-source platform for live audio and video. It works by creating rooms in which participants can join and then publish video and audio tracks. Other participants can subscribe to tracks published in the room and stream the track to an HTML video and audio tags.
