Cinema channel playout with OBS
Strictly a playout server via OBS taking advantage of some of OBS built in dynamic features such as updating text elements from the contents of text files. This project has other components that handle video transcoding, data fetching and playlist building which is not seen here.
Be sure to configure the .env file before using and that the library paths are correct and if they are network storage paths then they must be attached also.
Before starting you will need to run the cinema-playout library copy command to copy media content from the remote storage to the local storage as defined in .env.
Once the media is copied locally you can begin playout to the OBS instance via cinema-playout obs run which handles the OBS instance as well as schedules a daily task to copy library content from remote to local storage so you don't have to setup a recurring task manually.
Activate the local environment (gives access to installed packages required for this tool to work)
poetry shell
For help, run:
poetry run cinema-playout --help
For crontab usage example:
*/5 * * * cd /path/to/cinema-playout && . /path/to/pypoetry/virtualenv/bin/activate && cinema-playout --strict [COMMAND] >> logs/`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`.log 2>&1
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/find /path/to/cinema-playout/logs -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
Note the use of the --strict option for production use so logs are rendered to JSON and without color.
To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd cinema-playout
poetry shell
poetry install
To run the tests:
pytest
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the michaeltoohig/click-cli-boilerplate project template.