QC Live Forum Watch Party Requirements and Max Entitlement

QCLF Watch Party is a Max / All Access feature. The current Effective tier must resolve to Max or All Access before Watch Party creation or live use is authorized.

Entitlement alone is not sufficient: the Category feature, user action permissions, Topic state, and live lifecycle checks still apply.

Commercial and Category Requirements

  • Effective QCLF tier is Max or All Access, including an eligible active Max Preview when applicable.
  • The Category is a real non-sample Category and the inherited Watch Party capability resolves enabled.
  • The signed-in creator has create.watch_party plus the applicable start_now.watch_party and/or schedule.watch_party action.
  • The creator is not blocked by an effective posting/interaction sanction.

YouTube Requirement

The current Watch Party media provider is YouTube. QCLF accepts supported YouTube video, live, or playlist URLs and extracts validated provider IDs; it does not accept arbitrary iframe, script, object, or embed HTML from the user.

Browser Requirement

The frontend uses the official YouTube JavaScript Player API. Browser autoplay/media policies can require a viewer gesture, particularly in synchronized playback. A browser restriction is not the same thing as a failed QCLF entitlement.

Lifecycle and Tasks

Watch Party uses the same persisted scheduled/lobby/live/end/grace/archive model as Live Chat. Healthy lifecycle and archive Scheduled Tasks provide unattended recovery even though explicit End also attempts archive conversion immediately.

Optional Host Live

Max/All Access Watch Parties can also use QCLF Host Live for one Host camera/microphone stream. That managed media layer is separate from the required YouTube player and is not recorded or replayed by QCLF.

Community Discussion

Want to compare forum workflows, share practical QCLF tips, or discuss how other Joomla site owners use this feature? Visit the QC Live Forum Community. For private support, bug reports, account-specific entitlement problems, or feature requests, use the QuantaCade support system.