VCR

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A single file PHP script for WAMP to share and encode queue your local files online along with Python daemons to process said reencode requests.

Features

• PHP single file front end for viewing and managing your media WAMP/XAMPP
• Python single file background daemon to handle h264/h265 video and .opus audio reencoding requests
  • Opus reencodes to 48kbps per channel with 96k minimum.
    • 96k stereo audio
    • 192k quadrophonic
    • 384k octophonic
• What's New page show's latest file additions
• re-container video files to mp4 container (may fix playback in some browsers. new files end in .re.mp4)
• Autoplay your collection of audio and video files where supported by your browser.
• Download shared files remotely.
• Next and Previous buttons while in watch or listen mode
• Precache next file to speed up track switching in listen mode (pre-caching starts after 10s on a listen page)
• Randomly selected background image for header in settings. Can use single list element for static
• Link to timestamp in video using t= in URL
• Can use realtime filesystem data for simple setup or MariaDB/MySQL backend for enhanced performance

Requirements

• Python 3
  • Mariadb/Mysql driver
• XAMPP or WAMP
• FFmpeg
  • https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
  • Sadly ffmpeg.zeranoe.com will close on Sep 18, 2020, and all builds will be removed
  • going forward eugeneware provides static builds at https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static
  • You may be able to build it yourself by using the tools over at https://github.com/m-ab-s/media-autobuild_suite

Setup Notes

running the python daemon on 1 or more machines

On one machine that will do everything:

python daemon.py -s -u -q

On machine that will watch the filesystem:

python daemon.py -s -u

On the machine that will perform encoding:

python daemon.py -q

sshd_config

If you are using a reverse SSH tunnel to bring your server online make sure change "GatewayPorts no" to "GatewayPorts yes", it may need to be uncommented (remove leading # from line)

add VCR user

While at a command prompt at "C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.41\bin" (or the like)

htpasswd "c:\wamp64\gdlogins" user_name_here

TODO

• look into quicksync realtime video encoding/streaming
• perhaps depricate filesystem operation.
  • this woudl save a decent amount of codespace and cleanup the php and python a bit
• change daemon to replace into/delete instead of dumping/recreating the table
• improve the performance of the new filesystem monitor
• update .conf notes based on new XAMPP setup
• show popular searches in the landing page for each category
• add support for encoding audiobooks
• support intel SVT encoder
  • h265, av1, vp9?
• add advanced encoding toggles (like the 5.1 remap)
• log encoding result if possible?
• detect 5.1 and change encoding options when necessary (libopus/av1/vp9 i'm looking at you)
  • command += "-af "channelmap=channel_layout=5.1"" # 5.1 fix... https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5718 yikes 4 years running bug in libopus
  • make this a configurable option in video and audio transode... add audio transcode?
• add a view that display ffprobe output about a file
• add file-based queue support to daemon.py
• categories on links page?
• maybe make all categories and generalized config data in config.json.
• setup dynamic DNS
• Switch to https from http. Lets encrypt or self signed
• look at directly converting to opus on demand
• look into gapless queueing of audio tracks. precaching and redirect helps but perhaps make the player page more ajaxy
• custom playlists/ search while playing
• Look into RTMP live streaming/encoding video/audio realtime.
• Pick random jpg file from /img/ to use as header image
• cleanup code to use URL_BASE
• if the queue files are empty don't rewrite them
• add link timestamp into audio as well as video
• better tagline(s)
• look into qbt integration. submit magnet -> python daemon feeds to qbt web ?