PlayList

Play your remote media folder via HTTP in your favorite media player.

Get started

Install ffmpeg

ffmpeg must be installed first.

Create your config file

Place the config file config.yml to the same directory of the binary.

listen: :6300
groups:
  - name: private
    path: /data/private
    username: john
    password: 123456

  - name: share
    path: /usr/share/family

Start web server

./playlist

Play

Open your favorite media player, import the playlist with the following url.

• http://server_ip:6300/private
• http://server_ip:6300/share

Parameters

Parameter	Description
listen	Listen address of the web server.
groups	All your media groups.
groups.name	Name of the media group.
groups.path	Path is where your media folder located.
groups.url	URL overwrites the default url of the media file. The final url joins the given url with the media file name.
groups.username	When Username is non-empty, the HTTP Basic Auth will be enabled. Otherwise, no authentication is needed.
groups.password	Password of the user.
thumb.dir	Dir is where the thumbnail of media file stored.
thumb.workers	Workers is the number of worker processes to generate thumbnails in parallel. Default is the half of logical CPUs.
thumb.size	Size sets the output thumbnail size. Default is 640:360.

With nginx

server {
  listen 8933;
  listen [::]:8933;
  location /playlist/ {
    proxy_pass        http://127.0.0.1:6300/;
    proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header  Host              $http_host;
    proxy_set_header  X-Original-URI    $request_uri;
  }
}