So I have a client who has a Vimeo channel to display their hundreds of video’s, but for an exhibition have limited bandwidth at the venue, hence would look to have a local intranet server, in order for the users to view their files.
Is there a quick and easy way to do this, for instance in Freeway, point the intranet to a folder of which it then displays in glorious techno-colour in a library form, in as much a close proximity to Vimeo or at least a library thumbnail form for users to click on and view within the browser. And ideally if the folder was updated with new files and older ones deleted the browser would be updated at next refresh?
As opposed to build a website with linking by hand each file etc, so a Vimeo looking FTP server I guess, that is also a video player?
Sounds like a job for PHP. You could use a pretty simple script that
would automatically list the contents of a designated folder as a visual
array of stuff, showing thumbnails that you would have also prepared and
ready.
This assumes that the machine hosting the pages would be able to run
PHP. You mention this is for use at an exhibition, so would it be a
regular computer – a Mac, perchance? You could run MAMP
(http://www.mamp.info/en/) to have a working Apache-based web server in
place in seconds, able to process your PHP scripts and serve back HTML
to any visitors.
You’d also need to download all the videos from Vimeo. Easy to do if the
Download option is turned on, mildly less easy (but still actually easy)
if not.
Oh, and you’ll need the PHP script. I may have something kicking around.
Shout if you need it and the above scenario sounds possible.