Re: some simple way to serve videos?

On 03/10/2022 5:00 a.m., rsykora@disroot.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> until now I have www-served (httpd) my photos using, as it seems to me,
> a very simple way: into a directory with photos I copied a file called
> gallery.html taken from
>
> https://github.com/gfwilliams/ThinGallery
> .
>
> This created a browsable gallery of photos (using a web browser and
> over the internet), simple enough for my mom to orient in and use.
> Is there any similar way so that I could serve also video files?
>
> Thanks for any comments / recommendations.
>
> (I want something that lives on my machine. I know there are some 'big'
> frameworks, perhaps MediaGoblin, Serviio; also I could perhaps run a docker
> with minnich under a virtual machine runing linux. But is there something
> easy and available on OpenBSD?)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Ruda

Hi,

I have been running piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) as a "Gallery" for all
my photos and videos for years.  It takes a bit of work, but it does a
good job and "just works".

It takes a small amount of work to configure php, phpfpm, but once
that's all done, it's rock solid.

Kind of cool, it allows multiple formats of photos, so I can have my
camera shoot jpgs and raw and it will provide the option of which to view.

For videos, you can create a thumbnail from the video so the user has a
bit of a clue what they might be going to watch.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Steve Williams