MEDIA TRANSCODER / MEDIA LIBRARY / MEDIA FRONTEND

This is a simple PYTHON / FLASK / FFMPEG based media library and on-the-fly transcoding server and HTML5-based frontend.

WHY

I am running this on my NAS and use my Samsung SmartTV or a browser to watch videos and listen to music.

CONFIGURE

Change config.py to point to your media files.

INSTALL PYTHON 3.4

http://www.extellisys.com/articles/python-on-debian-wheezy

INSTALL FFMPEG

http://superuser.com/questions/286675/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-debian

PROBLEMS WITH UTF-8

export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'

RUN

• start ./library.sh
• navigate to http://localhost:8124
• have fun