efVideoTube (C#)

efVideoTube (C#) is a website for listing and playing videos and music on the disk.

Features

• Contains a couple of built-in players for playing different types of media files.
• Supports playing a playlist for audio files in sequence, shuffle or repeat mode.
• Supports playing audio only of specific types of videos. (requires external applications)
• Supports multiple tracks of captions.
• Converts subtitles files to webvtt files which are supported by html5. (requires external applications)

Supported Media Types

• Video
  • .mp4
  • .webm
  • .wmv
  • .flv
• Audio
  • .m4a
  • .mp3
• Subtitle
  • .ass
  • .ssa
  • .srt
  • .vtt

External Dependencies

The website depends on following external applications to make specific function work. The pathes of these applications could be configured under web.config.

• mp4box

  For extracting audio from mp4 videos. https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/

• mkvtoolnix

  For extracting audio from webm videos. https://mkvtoolnix.download/

• ass2srt

  For converting .ass, .ssa and .srt subtitles to webvtt. Will be published to github soon.

Deployment

All configurations could be found in appSettings section of web.config.

You have to add media folders as Virtual Directories in the site under IIS to make media hosting work, these media folders should also be set in categories setting. You also have to create another Virtual Directory named efvtCache for hosting extracted audio and converted subtitles, the path of this directory should also be set in videoCacheDir setting. You need to remove issuer setting if you don't use client certificate to authenticate users. At last, you may need to set a few MIME types for media and subtitles based on which version of IIS you are using.

File	MIME
.mp4	video/mp4
.webm	video/webm
.wmv	video/x-ms-wmv
.flv	video/x-flv
.m4a	audio/mp4
.weba	audio/webm
.mp3	audio/mpeg
.vtt	text/vtt

License

MIT