solidstate-tech / streama

It's like Netflix, but self-hosted!

streama

Ever had a huge bookshelf full of shows and movies? Ever wanted to digitalize them, but didn't have a good way of organizing the files? Worry no more! Streama is your own personal netflix for just such a purpose!

The Application

Dashboard

On the dashboard a user can see his recently watched Tv-shows and Movies and their progress (he can continue where he left off) as well start new shows and movies that he hasn't yet seen. The "Continue Watching" Feature works by periodically updating the database (only while watching, of course!) with info about the currently watched Video and how far it has been seen.

If a Movie or Episode does not contain any video-files, it won't show up in the dashboard.

The Player

The Streama-Player is (heavily) inspired by netflix, so you get all the good stuff from there. For Shows, there is "next episode" button, a handy episode- and season-browser, and then there are the basics, like volume-control, play/pause, and fullscreen. Later down the road I will add a feature to add subtitles and switch between video-files (for instance for different quality uploads). The player is html5-based and has only really been tested in chrome so far.

The Episode Browser

I am especially proud of the Episode-Browser, which aims to function just like on netflix. By default, the season is selected, that the current video-file is a part of. The user gets an overview over which other episodes there are in the season, how many seasons there are, and, as an added feature, the user sees all the added episodes, even if no video-files are added to them (thus greyed out).

The Admin-Panel

One of the most important things to me was to make managing shows, movies and episodes as easy and fun as possible. For this I made heavy use of the API from (theMovieDatabase.org)[https://www.themoviedb.org/], which auto-fills the episodes, shows and movies with useful information and great images, so that you, the user, will have hardly any work.

For instance, creating a new Tv-Show and the episodes for the first season looks something like this:

And uploading video-files for each episode is as easy as drag-and-drop!

The technical Details

This application is web-based and is programmed with Grails 2.4.4 and Mysql. For Login & User-Handling SpringSecurity is used. The player is completely html5-based, meaning there are limitations as to which file-types can be played.

As an API for all the movies and shows I used the awesome API from theMovieDatabase.

getting started

All you need is a server (preferably ubuntu) with the following configurations:

• tomcat7
• mysql
• a mysql database called "streama" (default config uses username "root" and no password)
  • if you prefer different settings, adjust /grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy
• a folder called "streama" that is located in /data that is owned by tomcat7 (this is where all the files will be stored)

Once the application is runnning the default user has "admin" both as username and password.

Work-in-progress

Lastly, I would like to mention that this project is extremely work-in-progress. Just today I was using it and noticed that it would be nice if the browser remembered the latest volume-setting. I will be adding new features and bugfixes often and quickly, but this is first and foremost a hobby project, so the time that I can spend on it is limited. If you want to contibute, feel free! I will be honored by each and every pull-request :)

Btw, if you have any issues getting started, let me know. I will gladly help out and then improve the docs accordingly.

Todo-List

These are the features that I will be working on in the near future:

• Video-conversion via Quartz for multiple html5-compatible formats
• Functionality to add subtitles while viewing
• Functionality to switch between multiple video-files (for instance for different video-quality)