mrbing47 / stream

This is a Node.js app to stream your entertainment file over LAN in this Quarantine Period

STREAM VIDEO

This server is useful in this hard time of quarantine period. Using this server, stream all your entertainment content over your LAN so that others can enjoy without using internet or copying the file over their device, while maintaining a social distance.

It has features like:

• Impressive and Responsive UI.
• Join or Create Room, or watch personally.
• Synchronised Video Playback in the room across all members.
• Controls of the video will be controled by the Leader (one who created the room by default).
• Real-time messaging in the Room so everyone can share their thoughts.

Main Page

Watch Personally

Room

Real-Time Chat and Sync Playback

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Project Setup

Follow below steps in order to setup project:

1. Install ffmpeg for your respective OS.
2. Run npm i to install node packages.
3. Setup dotenv file (information given below).
4. Edit
   • (LINUX / MAC) terminal/bash/stream
   • (WINDOWS) terminal/cmd/stream.cmd.

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.env Setup

You need to rename sample.env to .env located in ROOT/backend/ folder. You need to modify SECRET_KEY to prevent tampering of session cookie.

SECRET_KEY=a secret string for session

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CLI

This project comes with a custom build CLI menu to help users setup the project configuration at ease.

Setup

Edit following shell files based on OS.

• LINUX / MAC) terminal/bash/stream.
• (WINDOWS) terminal/cmd/stream.cmd.

and add the root path of the project, i.e., path to index.js. Edit the following line:

(LINUX / MAC)

node "/path/to/project/index.js" $*

(WINDOWS)

node "/path/to/project/index.js" %*

This files allows the user to start the server any place on any directory using Terminal or Command Prompt.

After completing the steps mentioned above, you will be able to configure the root directory of the media and pass kwargs and args from cli itself.

Usage

TODO

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Query String

I have introduced a searching algoritm which does the job pretty well. To give queries more power and flexibility, I have added string manipulation. You can produce multiple query strings to get result for them using just single string.

To use this functionality, you just need to use & in the strings. In order to produce complex strings, you can use parentheses (). Here are some examples below:

"A(B(Z&X)&C)D(E&F)GH&JK" = [
    "ABZDEGH",
    "ABXDEGH",
    "ABZDFGH",
    "ABXDFGH",
    "ACDEGH",
    "ACDFGH",
    "JK"
]

"(Bubble&Merge&Insertion) Sort" = [
    "Bubble Sort",
    "Merge Sort",
    "Insertion Sort"
]

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TODO

• Need to escape &.
• Add param for tn.
• Re-write getFile().
• Fix videos inside a folder in search.
• Accept params in js except batch.
• Modulate routes in separate files.
• Delete Folder's Thumbnails.
• Browser boolean not working in terminal.
• Write help command.
• Catch the error when the file is deleted from the system but not from the db.
• Make the filenames URL safe as some filenames might contains + and other URL characters.

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NOTE

1. For now, there is no way to escape & in search query. (NEED FIX).