Show HN: Video Hub App – like YouTube for videos on your computer

Post by yboris » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

thinkingemote wrote: post #46

yboris wrote: post #2

I created this software using Angular, Electron, FFmpeg, and angular2-virtual-scroll. All proceeds go to Against Malaria Foundation (GiveWell's top-rated charity). Currently not open source, but am trying to figure out how to set a license that encourages people to tinker with the code, but not to clone a copy and sell it.

If I remember correctly by default a repository on GitHub with no licence means you have the full copyright. People can clone it and if you have a CLA you could accept changes, but they cannot really do anything with it. So perhaps just showing the code and not putting any open source license could work in this case?

Post by mintplant » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 5:42 PM UTC

hateful wrote: post #69

mintplant wrote: post #20

Cool! Peanut gallery suggestions: - The default black-on-dark-grey in the primary pane looks amateurish. Switching out the background color for something lighter (maybe a light beige?) would make a world of difference for first impressions. - I'd appreciate if the screenshots adapted to my platform, so I could see what the app actually looks like on Windows. But I understand that it'd consume a lot of effort to re-ta…

I would say to also include a dark theme. I'd prefer to customize the colors manually, but if that's not possible, at least have a light/medium/dark theme choice. The main reason, at least for me, is that on the TV, lighter themes are very bright.

Post by thirdsun » Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 5:22 AM UTC

cypherg wrote: post #74

thirdsun wrote: post #45

Quick related question: Is there a lightweight video player that also acts as library management tool? It seems there are either lightweight players that simply open and play files you throw at it (MPV, VLC, ...) or heavy server-client solutions like Kodi, Plex and others. I'm looking for something inbetween. Basically VLC or MPV with a persistent library I can point to my film/tv shows folder and it will let me brow…

Tried Plex yet?

Post by yboris » Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

Firerouge wrote: post #31

yboris wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Primary goal: preview inside the video on hover (scrub). I may be mistaken but I don't think PLEX has it. Video Hub App also has a filmstrip view and a quick and advanced search capabilities (by folder, file name, exclude, etc). PLEX has many features that my app isn't trying to replicate -- I think the two are aimed at different use cases.

It isn't immediately clear to me, but could someone throw an nginx proxy in front of this and use it like Plex, either over the internet or local network?