IPFS video plugin for Kodi

Plugin to browse and play video media from IPFS.

It has a configurable gateway and a configurable root CID that you can browse.

Installation

Currently the plugin is not part of any repository. You will have to upload a zip and in the add-ons menu choose to install from zip.

• Download the plugin_video_ipfs.zip file from the latest release on the releases page
• Upload the zip file to your media center
• From the add-ons menu in Kodi choose "install from zip" and point kodi to the plugin_video_ipfs zip file

Build from source

• make package
• Copy the build/plugin_video_ipfs.zip

The main branch in github is not installable as a kodi package, please use the zip from the releases if you want to install a zip directly from github.

Viewing your own content

• Install IPFS on your media player
• Use ipfs add -r -w yourdirectory to insert your directory, remember the resulting CID
• Configure plugin to have gateway point to http://localhost:8080
• Enter the CID of the directory as the root CID in the plugin configuration
• Optionally:
  • Use ipfs name publish <cid> to create an IPNS record
  • Enter ipfs/<resulting ipns url> as the root CID in the plugin configuration

Develop

• Create venv for development: poetry install
• Run the tests: poetry run pytest
• Build a release package: make build

License information

Source code license: GPL v.3

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