ronaldorodriguez / videowatcher

Flask server for synchronous video playback across multiple browsers.

About

This is a fairly basic web application for shared video streaming, meaning that users on multiple endpoints can watch an mp4 or webm file together synchronously and use a chat overly to discuss the video while watching.

This project does not endorse illegal aquisition of pirated media. The software is offered as a free and fun source of entertainment under the GNU Public License.

Everything should run out of the box

Installation

Currently, videowatcher is only compatible with Unix-based systems.

Prerequisites

To make the magic happen, videowatcher relies on a complex package management system wrapped inside a virtual environment.

Make sure you have installed python3.5 and virtualenv using your package manager of choice. For example on Fedora-based systems:

sudo dnf install python3.5
sudo dnf install python-virtualenv

Also install pip3 and setuptools by downloading get-pip.py and installing like so:

sudo python3.5 get-pip.py

Running the server (Development)

Once you've installed the prerequisites, navigate into the base directory and run

./run.sh

Everything should be live at http://localhost:5000/

Deploying to production server

The package is designed to be deployed to PythonAnywhere

To begin, clone this repository into the working directory

git clone https://www.github.com/gnboorse/videowatcher

Go to the web tab and set up a custom app with Python version 3.5

Run the setup.sh script

./setup.sh

Go back to the web tab and point the virtual environment path to the venv that was just created.

Finally, edit your wsgi file to point to the videowatcher application directory (from git clone)

Should be good to go. Do not use run.sh to deploy to production.

This is very, very much a work in progress

See the Trello board here: https://trello.com/b/99Q4Ur4Q

Links for research:

Javascript

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31645307/how-to-play-mp4-video-all-major-browsers
• https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18670728/how-to-embed-video-using-html5-with-local-file
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8885701/play-local-hard-drive-video-file-with-html5-video-tag
• http://jsfiddle.net/dsbonev/cCCZ2/embedded/result,js,html,css/
• https://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_prop_currenttime.asp
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5981427/start-html5-video-at-a-particular-position-when-loading
• https://davidwalsh.name/html5-video-current-time
• https://davidwalsh.name/html5-video-duration

Python

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/682504/what-is-a-clean-pythonic-way-to-have-multiple-constructors-in-python
• http://www.python-course.eu/python3_properties.php
• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/installation/#virtualenv

Flask

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11994325/how-to-divide-flask-app-into-multiple-py-files
• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/patterns/packages/
• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/blueprints/#blueprints
• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/quickstart/#static-files
• http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.9/templates/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31727367/call-a-python-function-from-a-jinja-template
• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/quickstart/