Overview

The VoD System is a powerful clip management platform designed to streamline how you handle your video content. Whether you're a content creator, streamer, or educator, VoD System lets you:

• Upload clips effortlessly and securely.
• Edit and trim videos with intuitive controls.
• Compress files to specific file sizes.
• Organize your clips for quick access and sharing.

This VoD system began as a small project back in my 5th year of secondary school, during lockdown. I wanted a quick way to send game clips to Discord, but the 8MB file size limit made it frustrating to manually tweak bitrates for every clip. To solve that, I wrote a simple Python script to automate the process. What started as a quick fix has since evolved into a full-fledged system — now built with a Spring Boot backend and a modern React/Vite frontend.

Requirements

• Docker & Docker Compose
• JDK 21+
• Node.js 16+
• FFMPEG

Steps

1. Spin up docker container with docker compose up
2. Run ./mvnw clean package to build the jar
3. Run ./mvnw spring-boot:run to run the backend section
4. Run cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev to build and run the frontend
5. Endpoints should be available at 8080 (backend) and 5173 (frontend)

Future Plans

• User Management
  • Database integration with authentication and login
  • Clip saving and management for authenticated users
• Format Handling
  • Backend conversion of non-MP4 files via FFMPEG for broader format support
• Input Sources
  • Support for local file uploads and YouTube imports
• Testing
  • Unit tests, including coverage for FFMPEG-related functionality
• API Documentation
  • Comprehensive and maintainable backend API docs