VideoHost - filesystem based personal video hosting

You want to host your own videos online to share with friends. You don't want to install a lot of dependancies, manage a database or install new modules on your web server.

You do want to be able to add videos by dropping them into a file tree, and give people a URL to look at your videos with no complications.

You want this.

Setting up

A perlbrew setup is recommended!

$ git clone https://github.com/EatMoreCode/video_host.git
$ cd video_host
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

CPAN coming soon!

Running

There are many ways to deploy Mojolicious apps. Suggested reading: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook#DEPLOYMENT

$ cp lib/VideoHost/video_host.conf SOMEDIR/video_host.conf
$ edit SOMEDIR/video_host.conf
$ MOJO_CONFIG=SOMEDIR/video_host.conf hypnotoad `which video_host`

Open your browser and enjoy.

What? I don't want to install things! I just want to kick the tires!

Gotcha. Try this:

$ git clone https://github.com/EatMoreCode/video_host.git
$ cd video_host
$ morbo script/video_host --listen http://\*:2345

Hit http://localhost:2345 and kick the tires (well, tire).

To play some more, add your own videos under t/testdata (see the next section).

OK, how do I add videos?

Under your video_directory path (in the config) you need to have:

• one directory per video (name is unimportant - make it meaningful to you)
• one video file inside that directory called video.mp4
• one metadata file called metadata.txt
• (optional) a file called poster.jpg - an image shown before the video is loaded
• (optional) a webvtt file called tracks.vtt containing captioning information

The metadata.txt file should contain key: value pairs, thus:

title: My lovely video!
date: 2014-10-10

Thanks to

• http://www.videojs.com - Video.js
• http://mojolicio.us - Awesome!
• My wife for inspiring the project - Even more Awesome!