Web-serve a directory of video and/or audio and/or image files
It's like http-server, but tuned for media files
Compiles to a single binary, nothing else needed to deploy

Usage

Install it on your PATH
Navigate to the directory you want to serve
Run http-server-av
By default it will serve on port 8080, you can change that with the --port argument

Features

Creates thumbnails for video files
Parses metadata from media files
Has a search function which searches filenames, metadata, et cetera.
Simple duplicate video detection (comparing thumbnails)

Curiosities

Uses ffmpeg's libav C API rather than shelling out an ffmpeg process
Managing manual memory allocations in Go is a little easier than C but not by much
I believe some code paths leak memory -- barely any, seems to be in the webp code somewhere

Compatibility

Linux
Could work on Windows too, just don't have a Windows machine to test on

Requirements

Go
ffmpeg development libraries (usually ffmpeg-dev in package manager)
opencv development libraries (usually libopencv-dev in package manager)

Installation

Clone this repo, then run the following from inside it
go get
go install

Or just do
go install github.com/jml-89/http-server-av@latest