Cinema

Cinema is a web application which provide a fancy movie library. Wether you run it on your local network or on a public server it gives you access to your movie database from any device by direct download or streaming.

Features

Current features

• Automatic informations and poster fetching
• Automatic movie recognition from filename
• Direct download
• Movie managment and edition
• Movie streaming for .mp4 movies (HTML5 player)
• Notifications of newly available movies
• Random movie
• Search
• watchlist
• Subtitle support (.vtt file for django adminstration and .srt file for automatic indexing)

Planned features

• favorite movies
• additional movie information (actors, producer ...)
• ...

Screenshots

Installation

Requirements

You will need python 3.x, pip and ffmpeg.

First clone the project then procede to install the dependencies like so

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Application

Edit the file cinema/settings.py. The configuration you should change are the following ones

LOGIN_REQUIRED

Setting this to True will ensure only logged user can access the different pages. Setting this to False allows anyone a public access to the movies.

DATABASES

You may want to change the database settings to use mysql or postgresql instead of sqlite. Refer to the django documentation for more informations.

Nginx

If you plan to run this application on a production environment I recommand to use nginx and uwsgi. A uwsgi configuration file is provided. Edit it to suit your needs and then run the uwsgi server like so:

uwsgi uwsgi.ini

Then configure nginx so serve the static files and forward incoming travic to uwsgi. The following configuration can be used as a starting point.

server {
    listen *:80;
# server_name cinema.example.com;

    root /path/to/project/directory/cinema;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/cinema.log crit;

    location /media {
        autoindex off;
        alias /path/to/project/directory/cinema/media;
    }

    location /media/films {
        internal;
        autoindex off;
        alias /path/to/project/directory/cinema/media/films;
    }

    location /static {
        autoindex off;
        alias /path/to/project/directory/cinema/collected_static;
    }

    location / {
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:1234;
    }
}

You will then need to collect static files so run the following command:

./manage.py collectstatic

Running the app

Once you are satisfied with your settings you have to install the database migrations like so:

./manage.py migrate

You should start by adding a movie directory by executing the following command line

./manage.py add /path/to/movie/directory

Or by visiting the django administration site.

Then update the movie database simply run.

./manage.py update

If you often add new movies you should install a cron job which run this command on a regular basis.

Then you can run the django server

./manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:1234

Visit http://127.0.0.1:1234 and you should have access to your movie database.