brisk moat
This was an older project of mine that I picked up to poke at again.
What you see on the images acts as if it was a stripped-down streaming service and is backed by torrents. (the images use public domain stuff as test data)
The features it landed on as the MVP:
- full text search in whatever data we have attached to the video
- gives you a list of videos where you can know what you are dealing with. That list is coming from a server, because doing it like that is more manageable than trying to look things up from trackers and similar places. Gives you more to work with and does an initial filtering so you can know what to expect, instead of the entire universe.
- play the torrent in-app as it downloads, or wait for it to "buffer" with slower internet.
Anyone wants to use it as a second backup for the ~2.5TB/50–60h video we have on neuro so far? (this is an estimation, the real file size should be less) Considering that the youtube archive is already fan maintained, I don't expect Vedal to mind it.
I'm offering this as an option for that, because something like this is the only case where it will stay accessible as long as one of you cares, or just leaves it sitting on a hard drive and forgets about it.
Don't expect me to put the karaoke anywhere near it, unless it is something like Ellie's songs where we can very easily and safely get to know if the copyright holder minds it or not. I do have tools in this where I can claim "I removed it", so we have options but I'd still try to avoid doing that. It should also be possible to revive torrents with relative ease from cold storage with what I have in mind.
I have two issues and some features that just won't be worth touching if I know that it would not be used.
It needs one more test on windows which may have to fall on the weekend.
This is about as much as I'd go into for now, I'll put the code on github if you anyone is interested trying to use it. I'm unsure if there is room for this, but meh. We'll see.
frigid cosmos