SoFlix Server

Overview

A Node.JS application for watching videos with friends in real-time. Synchronizes video players between different users.

• Create Video Rooms and Play Shared Videos
• Authenticate with Facebook
• Convert videos into different bitrate formats using AWS Elastic Transcoder
• Chat with Friends, Set up/revoke permissions

Prerequisites

• Node V0.8+
• MongoDB server

Setting up the app

• Run npm install at the root folder to download dependencies.
• Make sure Mongo server is running. After following instructions to install, you can start it by sudo mongod which starts at localhost:27017 with default configurations. The app creates a database called paypal_pizza by default.
• Copy aws-config-example.json to config.json and populate with proper AWS credentials
• Copy constants.example.js to constants.js and populate with proper settings
• If you use port 80, you must run the node process as root
• Navigate to http://HOSTNAME/api/ and test the different routes
• Deploy soflix-client in the proper CLIENT_PATH to see a working version

Configuration

Please see constants.js in the root folder if you want to change the default application / mongo settings.

References

• SoFlix Client - https://github.com/tewebsolutions/soflix-client