What's on the box (onbox for short) is a rails webapp for browsing videos stored on a file server. The idea is that if you have a whole heap of movies on a file server you can easily show your collections to friends or use onbox to select the next movie you want to watch.
- Auto discovery of new movie or tv show files
- Automatic translation of movie/tv show file names into correct names
- E.g. Primer.2004.DVDRip.x264.AC3.avi become Primer (2004)
- Movie info and posters sourced from IMDB
- Search by name
- Browse by genre
- Mark movies and tv shows as watched
- Watch a movies trailer
- Detailed description of a video's file format
- In-built IMDB search for when auto translation fails
- Support for bulk editing video IMDB references.
- Embedded HTML5 Video & Quicktime playback
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Installation is not the easiest, hopefully this will become better overtime. (This guide has been developed against Ubuntu 10.04)
Step 1: Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install ruby irb rake libopenssl-ruby rubygems1.8 ruby1.8-dev git-core mysql-server libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev
Note: Onbox should work with other databases but you will need to modify the adapter in the database.yml file
install rvm: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/
Step 2: Download app
sudo mkdir /var/www
cd /var/www
git clone git://github.com/o-sam-o/onbox.git
Step 3: Install required gems
rvm install 1.8.7
rvm 1.8.7
rvm gemset create ob
rvm 1.8.7@ob
gem update --system
gem install bundler
sudo mkdir .bundle
sudo chmod 777 .bundle
bundle install --without development test
Step 4: Setup database
mysqladmin -u root -p create onbox
mysql -u root -p
grant usage on *.* to onbox@localhost identified by 'password_here';
grant all privileges on onbox.* to onbox@localhost;
exit
Now update the password in /var/www/onbox/config/database.yml to your password
Step 5: Migrate database
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
Step 6: Create first user
/var/www/onbox/script/console production
user = User.create!(:login => 'admin', :password => 'password_here', :password_confirmation => 'password_here')
exit
Step 7: Setup a directory for movie posters
e.g.
sudo mkdir /var/movie_posters
sudo chmod 777 /var/movie_posters
Then update /var/www/onbox/config/onbox_config.xml and set the production poster_storage to: /var/movie_posters
Step 8: Start the app and background processor
Web Server: The correct way is to install Passenger. Instructions: http://www.modrails.com/install.html
The easy way is to use mongrel
sudo gem install mongrel
cd var/www/onbox/
sudo ./script/server -d -e production
BackgroundRb: Onbox has a background process that scans for new media and scraps IMDB for video info.
cd var/www/onbox/
sudo chmod 777 log/
sudo chmod 777 pid/
./script/backgroundrb -e production &
TODO: Add instructions to make backgroundrb a service
Step 9: Basic app setup You should now be able to hit the web app, it will be at http://your.server:3000 if you used mongrel or whatever you setup as part of the passenger install.
- Click "Admin" at the top left of the page
- Click the "Media Folders" link
- Click "Add Media Folder"
- Enter the location of your movie files, check scan and press save
- Finally under Admin select "Scan All Folders Now"
After a while you should see movies/tv shows appear on the home page.
Step 10: Install MediaInfo CLI (Optional) In order to see details of media file formats you need to install MediaInfo CLI : http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Ubuntu
The video playback support is a little spotty. If the video is mp4 onbox will use the html video tag, however, this won't work in firefox. For other formats (e.g. avi) quicktime is used, if you have perian installed codecs such as divx should work. That said, firefox and chrome seem to want to download the whole video before playing it back. It plays back immediately in safari for me.
MIT (excluding all the stuff copied from others, e.g. theme)
Sam Cavenagh (cavenaghweb@hotmail.com)