Web-serve a directory of video and/or audio and/or image files
It's like http-server, but tuned for media files

Compiles to a single binary, nothing else to deploy... but has dependencies right now
Beyond basic libc (cgo) it also requires OpenCV and ffmpeg installed
OpenCV can be statically compiled and linked in though, with some effort
And ffmpeg can be statically linked already
Potentially can static everything, musl/opencv/ffmpeg/sqlite3 and get a no-dep binary
But have to investigate that some more

Usage

Install it on your PATH
Navigate to the directory you want to serve
Run http-server-av
By default it will serve on port 8080, you can change that with the --port argument

Features

Creates thumbnails for video files
Will try to create the "best" thumbnail it can by finding faces
Parses metadata from media files
Has a search function which searches filenames, metadata, et cetera.
Simple duplicate video detection (comparing thumbnails)

Quirks

Uses ffmpeg's libav C API rather than shelling out an ffmpeg process
Managing manual memory allocations in Go is a little easier than C but not by much
I believe some code paths leak memory -- barely any, seems to be in the webp code somewhere

Compatibility

Linux
Could work on Windows too, just don't have a Windows machine to test on

Requirements

Build

Go 1.22+
ffmpeg development libraries (usually ffmpeg-dev in package manager)
opencv development libraries (usually libopencv-dev in package manager)
C compiler
C++ compiler

Deploy

libc, ffmpeg, OpenCV on target system

Installation

Clone this repo, then run the following from inside it
go get
go install

Or just do
go install github.com/jml-89/http-server-av@latest