A website for serving media super fast.

Install the requirements:

sudo apt-get install redis-server jhead tidy

Install ffmpeg (you'll need to compile from source if the ffmpeg version in your repos is outdated):

Note: you'll need libtheora enabled to output ogv files.

mkdir /tmp/ffmpeg
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git /tmp/ffmpeg
cd /tmp/ffmpeg
./configure --enable-libtheora --enable-x264 --enable-gpl
make
sudo make install

Pull the repository to a folder:

git clone http://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush /home/service/webapps/mediacrush

Create a virtual environment:

Note: you'll need to use python2. If python3 is your default python interpreter, add "--python=python2" to the virtualenv command.

virtualenv /home/service/webapps/mediacrush --no-site-packages

Go to the folder you created and activate the virtual environment:

cd /home/services/webapps/mediacrush
source bin/activate

Install the Python modules:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Review the config.ini.sample file and rename it as config.ini.

Make the storage directory:

mkdir storage

Make sure the redis daemon is running, and if everything went according to plan, you can now run the development server with debug capabilities by executing:

python app.py

If you plan to host the service in a more robust fashion, consider using gunicorn. Run it as such:

gunicorn -w 4 app:app

You will also need to have the daemon running in order to process files. To do this, execute:

python daemon.py

The master branch is a copy of the production site. As such, please submit any pull requests in their own feature branch. All of our development happens like that, too. Follow the coding standards we're already using with your own pull requests.