What is this?

Serve media files for use with LittlStar on PS4.
Use built-in webserver with PHP.
Tested on QTS (QNAP NAS).
Use ffprobe to get media information. TempCache used to save it.
Use ffmpeg to create corrected thumbnails.
Not sure if this is really useful as there is a DLNA option too. (transcoding?, RTSP?)

Configuration

You need to SSH/SCP the files to your NAS. No neat package here yet. QTS packages can have a symlink created to their web subfolder though. See config.php for some parameters.

Set up Web folder

Enable web server on QTS. It will create a Web share. Set up the repo folder in the Web directory. Check http://192.168.x.x/littlstream_php/. Visit https://my.littlstar.com/feeds to add this stream. You can filter using query parameters: (negative filter using underscore key_=value)

?l=ou to only show over/under.
?c=180 to only show 180 degrees VR.
?p=/^a/i to only show titles starting with a or A. Remember to URL-encode this pattern as %2F%5Ea%2Fi.
?p=good to use a regexp preset.
?t=1 to only show transcoded videos. By default show transcoded but hide original.
?x=0 to hide videos that needs transcoding. Combined examples:
http://test-net-3-1.darkfader.net/littlstream_php/?c=180&l=sbs&x=0&p_=bad (query is hidden in LittlStar...)
http://test-net-3-1.darkfader.net/littlstream_php/c=180/l=sbs/x=0/p_=bad (provided you use .htaccess rewrite rule)

Titles

Title shows removed _ou _360 etc. from filenames.
Suffix * for transcoded files.
Suffix & to show transcoding required.
It also appends video codec name and bitrate.

Link media folder for serving thumbnails and media files

Example:

ln -s /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/R18/VR/180_sbs /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/Web/littlstream_php/media

Transcoding

Work-in-progress. Some checks are in place for PSVR and some comment in XML output shows command for conversion. My NAS is pretty slow. (also why I don't have a better VR headset)

sudo chown httpdusr transcoded
sudo chmod 775 transcoded

Development

Public IP, testing, ...

For testing purposes, I hooked up my PS4 to my second NAS ethernet port. Enable DHCP on public IP range 203.0.113.x (TEST-NET-1 range). Also, I mapped test-net-3-1.darkfader.net to 203.0.113.1 so that my PS4 can get the feed from http://test-net-3-1.darkfader.net/littlstream_php/. Visit https://my.littlstar.com/feeds to add this stream. Also had to enable NAT, so internet traffic returned to PS4 goes via my NAS. Create/edit /etc/config/autorun.sh:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 192.168.2.247

I don't know how the the official channels work, but I may simulate it later using some magic.

PHP reload, testing

/etc/default_config/php.ini /mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config/php.ini Lower opcache.revalidate_freq = 60 value to 1 or so? Or totale disable it with opcache.enable / opcache.validate_timestamps. /etc/init.d/Qthttpd.sh restart to apply settings?

Mount this folder

Use SMB (check folder permissions!) or enable SFTP (not recommended) on NAS so the Web folder can be mounted for development.

mkdir /tmp/littlstream_php
diskutil unmount force /tmp/littlstream_php
sshfs -o cache=no admin@chii.local:/share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/Web/littlstream_php /tmp/littlstream_php

Test RSS from development machine

curl "http://192.168.2.247/littlstream_php/"

Unmount development folder

umount /tmp/littlstream_php

References

TODO

Multiple/recursive directories. One per format?
Remember failed conversions
Get HEVC to work?
Convert videos to lower bitrate (in background)
Correct various VR camera for PSVR. How to detect?
Simulate official channels. Custom feed is subscription only?
Add some more filters. Multiple queries of same type.

About

It's not Littlstream, but something that can serve feeds from your NAS.

littlstar php qnap-nas qts vr

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