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Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn

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52 pointsazalemeth24 comments

Has anyone seen something along these lines for very innocent "G" rated family videos?

I recently went through a major VHS digitization project and it would be amazing to have something of this quality to host them.

I haven't looked closely at the project enough yet to see if this could easily be adapted. I'm concerned that the adult content focus around performers and acts might make it hard to adapt.

Plex is usually the go to for this.

Edit: Someone else mentioned Jellyfin, which is a great free option.

Emby also works well - https://emby.media/

Eagle is also pretty good for managing random videos in a tag-based manner: https://eagle.cool

Personally I think Jellyfin is going to be a better solution for hosting family-friendly media for the home.

I second Jellyfin. Ecosystem support is improving, and it's committed to staying open-sourced.

I would think you could adapt most of it. 'Performers' just becomes 'People'. And 'Scenes' are still that, just different sets of keywords. I think the harder part is just getting all the data tagged properly.

Although it also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839848 where he discusses his solution to digitizing and hosting the videos. He used Mediagoblin.

He didn't really talk Mediagoblin up very much. It just didn't seem too appealing although it's still on my mind.

I suppose I hadn't considered bending the Library system of Plex or Jellyfin to this task.

What is appealing about Stash though is that there's nothing to teach the user about. Point them to the URL and away they go as if it were YouTube.

I'll take a closer look at Jellyfin though. Thanks!

The website is more explanatory: https://stashapp.cc (NSFW)

I'd like to suggest Hydrus Network as a possible alternative to this, as it's also open source and written in Python: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

Of course, just not limited to porn and it can be used to classify/sort all kinds of audiovisual media, although its video/audio support is a tad lacking and it doesn't do so well with sequential art (You can still tag pages/chapters and have them somewhat ordered, but for instance it won't visualize CBZ archives)

Disclaimer: Not the author, merely just a (power) user whose use cases are mostly covered by it.

Seems like a lot of work for what it is

Agreed.

I feel like these adult only hosting services usually succumb to operating costs.

It's self-hosted, the idea being you run it on your own nas or lan.

Also, there's no reason it has to be for porn. It's a video organiser.

This this just for porn, or any video files you have on your hard drive?

In principle anything -- it's a very no-frills scraper and tagger with per-video bookmarking capabilities. Also, the codebase is very...well engineered.

Would you happen to know if there are plans to have a library stored in an object store like Backblaze B2 versus local disk?

I believe it's entirely filesystem agnostic -- if the process running it can read it, all is good.

Rclone should work nicely for this.

only porn

Non adult content will be automatically removed.

Users of this app should probably see a therapist?

I mean this with sincere compassion please seek help. this is the wrong path. No judgement – we all suffer, get tempted by this. It should not be promoted.

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