MyVOD

Self hosted video on demand solution with keyword based torrent auto-download via PirateBay using TOR.

Features

• Automatically download and transcode videos to quick preview format
• You can like video or make it best (separate views to navigate with huge amount of videos)
• Automatically remove seen but not liked videos
• Browse torrents (and possibility to make request of download by like it)
• Prevent filling up disk (by default downloads stops when 500GB free space)
• All downloads via TOR

Performance

• Tested on dedicated server (8core i7 + 32GB RAM + 6TB HDD) for 6 months -> video throughput ~300 per day
• 10 parallel downloads
• 1 transcoding (using all processor cores with renice of 20 aka lowest prio possible)
• 2-5 clients watching videos without any problems (not tested more)
• 4-6 load on server all the time (caused mostly by transcoding)
• You can significantly increase performance for multiple users when using ZFS + lot of RAM for cache (or even adding L2ARC SSD[s] cache)

Requirements

• Https configured www server (example configuration for nginx in config/nginx).
• Tor proxy on host machine.
• FFmpeg for video conversions and thumbnailing.
• qtfaststart for video operations
• Redis for sidekiq/sidetiq support
• PostgreSQL for database

Setup

• Use example configuration in config/nginx and replace MY_IP with your server ip address.
• Make user account with RVM installed.
• Use capistrano for deployments.
• Configure your http authentication in app/models/asset_host.rb

Usage

• Deploy.
• Ensure that sidekiq works.
• Go to production console and create new keyword, for example:

k = Keyword.new
k.keyword = "YIFY 1080p"
k.categories [ 207 ] # HD Movies (https://thepiratebay.se/browse/207)
k.save!
DailyMagnetSourcesImportWorker.perform_async

Development

• fork it
• clone it
• rbenv install 2.0.0-p598
• brew install ffmpeg
• brew install qtfaststart
• gem install bundler
• bundle
• bundle exec rake db:create && rake db:migrate && rake db:test:clone
• bundle exec rspec
• bundle exec guard

Deployment

• cp config/deploy.yml.sample config/deploy.yml
• configure config/deploy.yml
• cap deploy

Contrubution

• Pull requests welcome
• Please send suggestions to pr0d1r2@gmail.com