Simple Localflix

A self-hosted simplistic solution to stream your local videos. Should work well with any webserver. Tested with nginx (1.17).

Why?

Got tired of sending and receiving recorded videos thought this is better instead. Also thought it'd be fun.

Working

The solution expects a json file with the following structure:

{
    "directories" : ["/path/to/dir1", "/path/to/dir1", ... "/path/to/dirN"]
    "videos" " ["/path/to/dir1/video1.mp4", "/path/to/dir1/video2.mp4" ...."/path/to/dirN/videoZ.mp4"];
}

For easy creation of JSON File, I have also added a filesystem_json_creator.sh which will create the required json structure and create a json file in /data/public/data.json (Hard-coded location).

Usage of filesystem_json_creator.sh is `sh filesystem_json_creator.sh /path/to/directories' , where the /path/to/directories has all the folders and videos within them.

Supported structure is, a directory which contains a list of directories which all contain videos.

+-- directory_of_videos
|   +-- directory_1
    |   +-------video 1
    |   +-------video 2
    |   +-------video n
|   +-- directory_2
    |   +-------video 1
    |   +-------video 2
    |   +-------video n
...
|   +-- directory_n
    |   +-------video 1
    |   +-------video 2
    |   +-------video n
+-- index.html
+-- static

Setting up

Easy way (run via docker)

1. I have published an image for localflix. More details : https://github.com/iKevinShah/localflix-docker

The older way

1. Upload this to / or any directory on your local webserver.
2. Make sure the video directory is available(accessible) on web server.
3. Create JSON file (manually OR via the filesystem_json_creator.sh) script.
4. Edit index.html app creation line. Usage:

var app = new App(Site Name, JSONDataFileLocation, PathOfVideosDirectoryOnFileSystem, RelativePath);

5. Enjoy your local media.

Screenshots:

Homepage

Video Listing

Error in case of missing JSON

Known issues / problems / shortcomings:

1. This does not add History (and hence does not change URL)
2. All bugs of "plyr" stand true here.
3. Only supports mp4 | webm | ogg videos.

Made with:

1. Cash : https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash
2. Plyr : https://github.com/sampotts/plyr