Offflix - Series manager for your local downloads

I created this project some years back and the project just reached v1.1.0. I know most people have jellyfin servers and all set up, but if you have just a local folder of all your series saved up, you can use this to remember what you were watching.

All feedback is welcome. You can also contribute to the project

Repo: https://github.com/Dr-42/offflix

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I have jellyfin all set up on a media server so this won't do much for me. That said, this is pretty slick looking and has a good use case. If I'd not been aiming to share with my long distance girlfriend I'd probably have opted for this kind of thing. Nice work op!
- Do you know how to code? If so I would love on adding network share features. But I don't have a server and all setup to test it.
  
  Unfortunately my coding is limited to a semester of python in college so i'm not much use there.
  
  Honestly, I wouldn't try to develop this for network sharing. That would make it encroach a lot on the territory of dedicated server software like jellyfin which most likely has a lot more development power behind it.
  Probably better to focus on your niche
This looks awesome, I'll be sure to check it out.
- Thank you so much. Feel free to leave any comments you might have
  
  ...How do I use it? I downloaded it via MSYS2 on Windows 10 and I'm struggling to find a way to run the app.
This looks great! Only thing id say to add is instead of just watch random episode, watch random show/movie but if its a show continue where you left off.
If you ever plan on adding a watch with friends feature you might be interested in Multiplex which lets you stream media with your friends and have the play/pause sync up https://github.com/pojntfx/multiplex
Looks great.
I'll give it a try.
- Thank you so much
Are there similar projects? I was looking for something of this type for long.
- I didn't find anything and hence I made it.
- Kodi (https://kodi.tv) does the same thing & more. People think of it as a sort of streamer but its original/main purpose is to manage local media downloads including movie/tv series.
  
  Tried it, Too heavy for my usecase
  Also I cannot use MPV to watch my videos.
Oof, hope you're holding up watching Made in Abyss lol
- I completed all of what has been released till now. I watched season 1 and then experienced the super long hiatus. I never expected s2 to come out.
  
  Is there a season 2 coming? I hadn't heard! I'm pretty sure I'm behind, I've only seen up to the first movie that came out after the series. I've never watched a series that throws so many gut punches lol
This might actually come in handy for me.
- Please try it out and leave feedback if you wish. I am happy if it helps even one more person than me.
This looks promising. I keep some media on an external, encrypted ssd when I travel and just been relying on making a note of the episode and using haruna's playback time feature.
fellow made in abyss enjoyer
I'm confused on the installation on Ubuntu you download libmpv then what? I've also installed cargo.
- Just type cargo install offflix. Then you will get it.
  
  Thank you for helping me, I'm still having issues though. Now it is with openssl which I have confirmed that I have installed. Sorry Im sending a wall of text below but I wanted to include the full error message. Once again thank you for your help.
  error: failed to run custom build command for openssl-sys v0.9.102
  Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: /tmp/cargo-installZPoMt0/release/build/openssl-sys-47a67ecb49a60989/build-script-main (exit status: 101) --- stdout cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_LIB_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_LIB_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_LIB_DIR OPENSSL_LIB_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DIR OPENSSL_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_NO_PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_STATIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DYNAMIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_STATIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_DYNAMIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR run pkg_config fail: pkg-config exited with status code 1
  PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags openssl The system library openssl required by crate openssl-sys was not found. The file openssl.pc needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory. The PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable is not set. HINT: if you have installed the library, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory containing openssl.pc. --- stderr thread 'main' panicked at /home/et/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/openssl-sys-0.9.102/build/find_normal.rs:190:5: Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation, and this -sys crate cannot proceed without this knowledge. If OpenSSL is installed and this crate had trouble finding it, you can set the OPENSSL_DIR environment variable for the compilation process. Make sure you also have the development packages of openssl installed. For example, libssl-dev on Ubuntu or openssl-devel on Fedora. If you're in a situation where you think the directory should be found automatically, please open a bug at https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl and include information about your system as well as this message. $HOST = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu $TARGET = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu openssl-sys = 0.9.102 note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... error: failed to compile offflix v1.1.1, intermediate artifacts can be found at /tmp/cargo-installZPoMt0. To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable CARGO_TARGET_DIR to that path.
It's like Kodi-lite, specifically for shows? It's not for me, but cool that it's out there
- Yes... Though I haven't used kodi. I thought of including movies too... But I couldn't think of a place to reliably scrape tags and details about movies.
That'd be perfect for my use case, but no sync to/from series tracking sites is a deal breaker.
- The software inherently tracks the series for you. The data is saved in your .config/offflix folder

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