Static hosting media interface

Description:

refreshless web app that allows browsing, streaming and downloading of multimedia content hosted on a static server

Features

• content directory browsing
• audio & video streaming,
• image viewing,
• document viewing (pdf, txt, md)
• file download links.

Explanation

The project is made of two separate programs: 1) a Java program meant to be run as a cron job, whose output is then uploaded to the server and 2) a JS program, uploaded once to the static site. The Java program creates a JSON representation of your content directories. The JS program fetches these JSON files and uses them to retrieve the content.

Setup:

• Build the Java application & modify the settings.json file (it is inside the jar).
• Put content and JS app on a static hosting site (github pages, dropbox + updog.co)
• setup a job to occasionally regenerate the json files

Example Settings.json:

{
    "PathToDropboxPublicDirectoryRoot": "../Apps/updog/myname/Public/",
    "DirectoryMapOutputPath": "../Apps/updog/myname/PublicInterface/",
    "DropboxPublicRootURL": "https://myname.updog.co/Public/"
}

Libraries used:

• json-simple - json parser, used by the Java program
• Pure.css - used to style the js directory browser
• VideoJS - html5 video streaming lib