Wubloader is a system for saving, re-serving and cutting into videos of a target
twitch (or probably other HLS, but some twitch specifics are assumed) stream.
It was designed to serve the needs of the [Video Strike Team ](https://vst.ninja )
as part of [Desert Bus For Hope ](https://desertbus.org ).
A full design doc can be read at [initial-design-doc.pdf ](./initial-design-doc.pdf ),
but a brief overview of the components:
#### Shared Components
* `common` provides code shared between the other components.
#### Ingest
* `downloader` grabs segments from twitch and saves them to disk
* `restreamer` serves segments from disk as well as playlist files allowing them to be streamed
* `backfiller` queries restreamers of other servers in order to pick up segments this server doesn't have already,
ie. it replicates missing segments.
* `chat_archiver` records twitch chat messages and merges them with records from other nodes.
#### Processing
* `sheetsync` syncs specifc database columns to a google doc which is the primary operator interface.
* `cutter` interacts with a database to perform cutting jobs
* `thrimshim` acts as an interface between the `thrimbletrimmer` editor and the database.
* `thrimbletrimmer` is a browser based video editor.
* `segment_coverage` regularly checks whether there is complete segment coverage for each hour.
* `playlist_manager` adds videos to youtube playlists depending on tags.
#### Analysis
* `bus_analyzer` does OCR on the stream to produce timestamps of/for progress through the route.
* `buscribe` is back-end audio speech-to-text extraction.
* `buscribe_api` is the API provided for below to access the stored results of transcription.
* `buscribe-web` is the web frontend to interface with `buscribe` 's output (via `buscribe_api` )
#### Services
* `postgres` hosts a Postgres database to store events to be edited.
* `nginx` provides a webserver through which the other components are exposed to the outside world.
* `monitoring` provides dashboards to allow the wubloader to be monitored.
### Installation
All components are built as docker images.
Components which access the disk expect a shared directory mounted at `/mnt` .
A docker-compose file is provided to run all components. See `docker-compose.jsonnet`
to set configuration options, then generate the compose file with `./generate-docker-compose` .
Then run `docker-compose up` .
To install wubloader, please refer to [INSTALL.md ](./INSTALL.md ) for more granular steps.
#### Alternate Setups
> [!WARNING]
> Here be dragons. This config is largely maintained by one user and is not kept at parity with the rest of the tooling. It's highly suggested to not use at this juncture for new developers to wubloader.
There is also a kubernetes-based option, but it is less configurable and only fully supports replication and editing nodes.
Basic support for running the database and playlist_manager has been added, but not tested.
See [k8s.jsonnet ](./k8s.jsonnet ) for details.
