Medici

###HTML5 Media Library Browser and video player Browse you collection of videos through nice HTML5 interface. View cover art and metadata extracted from the media files. This application will run a node.js server to serve a WebApp where you can browse your media files.

At this moment only video files in MP4 container format can be played, as these are the supported format by the HTML video standard.

Features

• HTTP Hashed Authentication
  • Protect your media with user credentials.
  • The data is not encrypted but sent in clear text. Credentials are hashed though.
• Cover art and meta data is extracted from the MP4 video files
• Playback on iPhone, iPad etc. With support for AppleTV via AirPlay
• Navigate through sub-folders with additional content
• Intelligent sorting of television shows and films.

Requirements

The following applications and libraries are required:

• node.js, Aptitude: apt-get install node
• MP4Box, Aptitude: apt-get install gpac
• ImageMagick, Aptitude: apt-get install imagemagick
• ImageMagick for node.js, NPM: npm install imagemagick

Ubuntu or likewise

Use Aptitude (apt-get) to install all the dependencies: node, npm, MP4Box and imagemagick.

####Mac OS X To run Medici on Mac OS X you will need to obtain MP4Box and imageMagick from package managers like Homebrew or Ports. Or you download the source code and compile the app yourself.

Windows

Honesty I don't know to run node and install the dependencies. I guess Windows is not supported...

Installing

When the medici files are located in a folder (eg. medici), open the file node.js file server.js:

1. Edit the variable serverPort to change the listening port. Default is 8080.
2. Edit the variable browseDir to the path of the directory where your media files are located
3. Edit the dictionary object users to add allowed users. Passwords are stored in clear text (subject to change in future versions)

Save the changes and run node server.js from you terminal.

Supported Browsers

Browsers that can playback MP4 files (either h.264, MPEG4 or likewise) are supported. Medici is only tested on WebKit browsers (Safari & Chrome).
In theory these browsers should work:

• Safari
• Chrome
• Opera
• Internet Explorer 9 and 10

Run as daemon

Should you get tired of running the node server process in the terminal or in a screen, you can easily install it as a daemon. The newest Ubuntu include the new Upstart daemon initialization system. Here it is fairly easy to run a script as a daemon.

Create a new file medici.conf in /etc/init and paste this text into it:

description "node.js Medici server"
author      "Kristoffer Andersen - http://github.com/stoffera"

# used to be: start on startup
# until we found some mounts weren't ready yet while booting:
start on started mountall
stop on shutdown

# Automatically Respawn:
respawn
respawn limit 99 5

script
    chdir /home/www/medici
    exec /usr/bin/node /home/www/medici/server.js >> /var/log/medici.log 2>&1
end script

post-start script
   # Optionally put a script here that will notifiy you node has (re)started
   # /root/bin/hoptoad.sh "node.js has started!"
end script

Now you can start and stop the daemon with sudo service medici start and sudo service medici stop.

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Medici
Copyright (c) 2012 Kristoffer Andersen