Moirai Web Builder - video website generator

this looks like excellent work

although cross platform compatability would make this perfect!

maybe even as an addon? i currently use subsonic as it has a video service too, but you have to pay to set up your own server

Hmm...
I originally was going to release the application with Windows support but I was afraid of something going wrong because OpenSSH doesn't come preinstalled on Windows. It looks like OpenSSH will work on Windows through Cygwin, however, you'll need to download and set it up before trying to use MWB for anything. I don't want to scare anyone away because the set up looks a bit technical but I found some nice online documentation to help. Make sure that when the SSH runs in the terminal on OS X that it is able to transfer the files correctly to the Windows machine (the address I put in for the directories may be wrong). If anything goes wrong could you post the results so I know whether it's working or not?

It would be really exciting if MWB works correctly on a Windows computer so I'll post a new copy of the application today! I don't have a Windows computer to test on (or enough time to test it on a virtual OS) so let me know if it works!!

(2012-05-31 15:45)greenyouse Wrote:  It would be really exciting if MWB works correctly on a Windows computer so I'll post a new copy of the application today! I don't have a Windows computer to test on (or enough time to test it on a virtual OS) so let me know if it works!!

If i get a bit of time over the weekend i'll probably give it a go on Windows 7 to see how it goes

wow, I just opened TXT.rtf and there is a lot of work for windows, but definitely worth it to test

Ok, I just updated the project to (hopefully) make using Windows way easier. Instead of using SSH and rsync to move files around the application will mount the Window's drive with Samba filesharing. The last version of the app was pretty terrible for Windows so hopefully this helps a bunch!

If there are any issues with Samba not mounting something correctly let me know right away and I'll try to fix it (I still haven't actually tested this on a Windows computer). Feel free to add any suggestions for extra stuff I should add to the project too!

this should be part of the main XBMC release i think this is great and a feature that would pull more users to XBMC

I'm going to try rewriting the whole application in Python starting next week but it will probably take a while because I'm not so good at Python. If it can be done though it would run on all operating systems instead of just OS X making it a lot nicer!

I'll also look into how to automate file system mounting over SSH or VPN to create a mini file server that can be accessed away from home. This could be helpful for moving large files (like HD movies) from a laptop that's away from home to a server on your home network. Just mount the home server on the laptop, drop the files you want to send using your normal GUI (like Finder, Gnome, or whatever), wait a minute, then disconnect. It's kind of like FTP but hopefully faster and easier to use.

If I get all that done I may look into packaging it into the main repository.

Ok, I noticed a HUGE error that kept this from working on non-OS X computers. I fixed everything up and added a couple things to make file transfers faster. If anything buggy like this pops up again please say something and I'll try to fix it as quick as possible.

I've put together an additional package to make the mountable file server deal I mentioned earlier. It's really useful and fairly easy to set up!

http://code.google.com/p/cloud-computer-...loads/list

Unfortunately I haven't gotten very far in the Python writing. If this project sounds interesting to any python coders I could offer help for porting this to other operating systems!