MP-Devourer is the Magma Playout Ingest Server (view wikipedia pages below). Some of the ingest functions are

• Analyze a directory and provide all video files to the playout
• Transcode video files in directory
• Generate Thumbnails
• Provide clip information (video length, framerate, etc)

Get the code and compile the Netbeans Java project yourself

git clone https://github.com/cyberpunx/mp-devourer.git

-or-

Simply use the jar provided in /dist folder or download it from the releases section

Execute in therminal

java -jar ingestserver.jar

alternatively you can do

java -jar ingestserver.jar > output.txt

in order to generate a text file with detailed output.

Important: Running the program for the first time will create a configuration file at:

~/.magma-playout/ingestserver.properties you HAVE to edit that file and manually input your ffmpeg and ffprobe paths. In order to get the paths you can execute:

whereis ffmpeg
whereis ffprobe

-Media Directory: Directory where you keep your video files.

-Run and Die: Analyzes the directory folder and close the program.

-Start Service: Directory polling. Not implemented yet.

Wikipedia: Video Server.

Wikipedia: Playout.