streamZ

A simple video streaming application made with Dart, JS, HTML, CSS & ❤️

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Recently I wrote an article, explaining how to deploy it using systemd in LAN, which can be found here.

what does it do ?

• A streaming service, intended to run in small network(s) ( may be in your home network ), which lets you stream movies to any device present in that network & having a standard browser installed ( yeah HTML5 support required )
• Backend, fully written in Dart, leveraging power of dart:io & dart:isolate
• Frontend, powered by HTML, CSS & last but not least Javascript ( yeah not using any UI framework )
• Audio-Video playing is done using HTML5 <video> element, which can play mp4 & webm video(s) generally

how can I use it ?

• If you're on Linux, then I've already compiled streamZ into an executable binary ( using dart2native compiler ), which can be simply run on any Linux Machine, cause that executable binary is one self-sufficient one ( but not yet platform-agnostic, which will change is near future ).
• Then download this compressed file, and unzip it into a suitable location on your machine.
• You'll get a directory tree like below

$ wget https://github.com/itzmeanjan/streamZ/releases/download/v1.0.1/streamZ.zip # consider downloading zip, using wget from terminal
$ cd
$ unzip streamZ.zip # unzipping it
$ cd streamZ # getting into actual directory
$ tree -h
.
├── [4.0K]  final
│   └── [7.8M]  streamZ
└── [4.0K]  frontend
    ├── [4.0K]  images
    │   └── [ 318]  favicon.ico
    ├── [4.0K]  pages
    │   └── [1.0K]  index.html
    ├── [4.0K]  scripts
    │   └── [9.7K]  index.js
    └── [4.0K]  styles
        └── [2.0K]  index.css

6 directories, 5 files

• Now get into ./final directory & run executable binary, which will start a media streaming server on http://0.0.0.0:8000

$ cd final
$ ./streamZ # running movie steaming server
[+]streamZ_v1.0.0 listening ( streamZ0 ) ...

[+]streamZ_v1.0.0 listening ( streamZ1 ) ...

• To check, open browser from same machine & type http://localhost:8000 into address bar, you'll get a list of all movies present under ~/Videos/ directory, which is default video storing directory on Linux running machines.
• You can also access this streaming service by opening _http://x.x.x.x:8000/_,on any device's browser, present in LAN
• Where x.x.x.x is nothing but Local IP Address of machine, running streamZ

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• If you want to dig deeper, simply fork this repo & clone it in you machine
• Make sure you've installed Dart SDK & you're on *nix platform
• Because I gonna use systemd.service to keep this streaming service alive in background, always, even after system restarts it'll auto start itself
• You need to make sure, you've ~/Videos/ directory present on your system, cause we'll read from that directory ( every 30 minutes ), to ensure all mp4 & webm videos, present in aforementioned directory, are listed in movie playlist
• If you're having a lot of traffic, consider using multiple Isolates to handle traffic efficiently. Just update int count = 2; on line 100 of ./bin/main.dart to whatever value you intend to use, that many Isolate(s) will be created on boot, they'll distributedly handle whole traffic coming in.
• I've also written one systemd unit file, which can be used for deploying streamZ, so that it'll keep running always ( autostart after failure & system boot )
• Consider using so, by modifying this systemd unit file

how does it look like ?

Feel free to check source code to dig deeper ( it's pretty well documented )

Hope it helps ... 😉