https://github.com/maruel/serve-mp4

Serves transcoded MP4's for ChromeCast and ChromeOS
https://github.com/maruel/serve-mp4

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Serves transcoded MP4's for ChromeCast and ChromeOS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/maruel/serve-mp4
• Owner: maruel
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2017-11-27T01:24:46.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-01T01:06:09.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T02:14:39.755Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 864 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Support: support/.gitignore

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# Serves a directory of video files as MP4 over HTTP

Goal: enable playing a local list of multilingual video files on a ChromeCast

via [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com).

![ChromeCast](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/maruel/serve-mp4/chromecast.png)

Requires [ffmpeg/ffprobe](https://ffmpeg.org/) to be installed. To install, run

[./support/build-ffmpeg.sh](support/build-ffmpeg.sh).

By default, it will prefer French audio tracks over others.

```

go install github.com/maruel/serve-mp4/cmd/...@latest

serve-mp4 -help

serve-mp4 -root /mnt/foo/bar

```

Then setup as a systemd service:

```

./setup.sh /mnt/foo/bar localhost:7999

```

## Fronting with Caddy

Use a [Caddyfile](https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile) to proxy the server

over HTTPS, assuming `example.com` points to your IP address, then disallow any

external access:

```

example.com {

  log / /var/log/caddy/web.log "{when} {status} {remote} {method} {latency} {size} {uri} {>Referer} {>User-Agent}" {

    rotate {

      size 100 # Rotate after 100 MB

      age  120 # Keep log files for 120 days

      keep 100 # Keep at most 100 log files

    }

  }

  errors {

    log /var/log/caddy/web.err {

      size 100 # Rotate after 100 MB

      age  120 # Keep log files for 120 days

      keep 100 # Keep at most 100 log files

    }

  }

  # Only allow local network.

  ipfilter / {

    rule allow

    ip 192.168.1.1

  }

  # If you want to server a base directory.

  root /var/www/html

  # Proxy to serve-mp4.

  proxy / localhost:7999 {

    transparent

  }

}

```

## Probing

`probe-mp4` leverages [text/template](https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) to

allow printing data from

[vid.Info](https://godoc.org/github.com/maruel/serve-mp4/vid#Info).

Print the duration of a video:

```

probe-mp4 -fmt "{{.Duration}}" foo.avi

```

Print the duration of every videos along codec data:

```

find . -type f -exec probe-mp4 -fmt "{{.Src}}: {{.Duration}} {{.VideoCodec}}/{{.AudioCodec}}/{{.AudioLang}}" {} \;

```