chaps/netflask

HTML5 movie gallery written in Flask

Netflask

Simple private HTML5 video gallery written in Flask.

Features

• HTML5 player using mediaElement player
• Automatically scans library for new movies (Remember to set a cronjob!)
• Automatically converts new videos into proper formats
• Automatically fetches subtitles
• Fetches movie data from RottenTomatoes API
• Uses X-Accel-Redirect to serve videos in a secure way

Requirements

• Python 2
• python-dev
• RabbitMQ server
• FFmpeg - Custom install instructions available here

Bugs

• Videos are not playing under Firefox on Linux, due to codec licensing issues. You can enable WebM encoding in sources.

Installation

git clone http://git.vpsboard.com/fisle/netflask.git

cd netflask

virtualenv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Edit app/templates/modify.html, change JS values 'apikey' to RottenTomatoes API key.

• Edit config.py

• Deploy! Gunicorn deploy guide

• Point your browser to /setup to create new user

• Set up cronjob for scan.py. This scans for new video files.

  */5 * * * * /path/to/venv/bin/python /path/to/scan.py scan_folders

Deploying

Nginx conf:

location /raw_videos/ {
  internal;
  alias /absolute/path/to/videos/;
}

Problems

pip install -r requirements.txt fails?

source venv/bin/activate

wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py

python distribute_setup.py

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