jvogit / chestercinema

Experiment with playing videos in discord using gifs. Base off of MovieBot.

ChesterCinema

Based off of the concpet of MovieBot. Plays sequential gifs with audio for a "seamless" video experience. This is an experiment in loading more frames and caching them. Frames are loade "buffered" asynchrously. Caching is done by saving the link to a file for next use and put less strain on Discord hopefully. (No need to reupload links/gif every video play) This also can grab any video from YouTube and other supported sites that YouTube-DL supports. This bot is more of a proof of concept and experiment. The bot may not be reliable and there will be bugs.

Requirements

This bot runs on Java 12 platform. During runtime, the bot requires:

• ffmpeg
• ffprobe
• YouTubeDL (for downloading videos from url)

Setup

1. Build the jar using Maven
2. Run the jar. The token and other options can be set in config.json generated after first run.

You can create a videos folder and put .mp4 there. This will also be the place where videos are downloaded to.

Play Movies/Videos

• !movie - Plays a video file locally. Subcommands are: list, stop
• !onlinemovie - Downloads and plays a video from YouTube. Provide an url or search query.