efVideoTube (nodejs)

efVideoTube (nodejs) is a web service for listing and playing videos and music on the disk. It's the server part of renewing efVideoTube (C#). The client (UI) part of the project is under developing and will be available soon.

Renew

A few years ago, I developed efVideoTube (C#) for sharing videos among my friends. As the time goes, I feel some drawbacks of the program, such as inflexibility of authentication, unoptimized UI on cell phones, etc. So I decided to renew the project.

The new project is changed from the architecture, it ditches B/S for SOA. It composites a web service and clients on different platforms. Unlike the original C# version, which uses client certificates to authenticate users, the new version uses database to validate user accounts so that it no longer relays on client side support.

Features

• List media files on the disk.
• Configurable media players.
• Extract audio from videos. (requires external applications)
• Converts subtitles to webvtt which is supported by html5. (requires external applications)

Supported Media Types

• Video
  • .mp4
  • .webm
  • .wmv
  • .flv
• Audio
  • .m4a
  • .mp3
• Subtitle
  • .ass
  • .ssa
  • .srt
  • .vtt

External Dependencies

The website depends on following external applications to make specific function work. The pathes of these applications could be configured under config.js.

• mp4box

  For extracting audio from mp4 videos. https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/

• mkvtoolnix

  For extracting audio from webm videos. https://mkvtoolnix.download/

• ass2srt

  For converting .ass, .ssa and .srt subtitles to webvtt. Will be published to github later.

License

MIT