Public Remote Media Server Project

[Lejo]

Please add some gitlab moved mods:
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/moretrees.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/homedecor_modpack.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/plantlife_modpack.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/basic_materials.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/unifieddyes.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/signs_lib.git
And some Games:
git://github.com/minetest-LOTT/Lord-of-the-Test.git
git://github.com/Lejo1/subgames.git
git://github.com/BlockMen/Wasteland.git
What about automatic adding mods at content.minetest.net?

[sofar]

Please add some gitlab moved mods:
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/moretrees.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/homedecor_modpack.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/plantlife_modpack.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/basic_materials.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/unifieddyes.git
git://gitlab.com/VanessaE/signs_lib.git

done (did a few more than this)

And some Games:
git://github.com/minetest-LOTT/Lord-of-the-Test.git
git://github.com/Lejo1/subgames.git
git://github.com/BlockMen/Wasteland.git

These are largely duplicates of minetest_game, causing my server to needlessly duplicate tons of files and consuming large amounts of space for no reason, so I'd rather not.

If there is a place where I can get the mods separately, I would add them though.

What about automatic adding mods at content.minetest.net?

Well, not yet, I'd rather track git for now. contentdb mods are things that end users download. Server owners are more likely to use git to track updates, so contendb is likely outdated. On top of that, zipfiles are bandwidth inefficient and would waste bytes, plus I'd have to write a scraper, so all in all this is more work for little gain where git already works well.

[sofar]

Quick stats on the server:

last full week: 13gb total, 3k unique visits, 1.6 million files requested. Fairly close to my last status update numbers.

5.0.0 and 5.1.0-dev clients are becoming more and more used.

[Lejo]

Ah, You are saving all this mods.
What about just cloning one, pulling out all medias and deleting the clone afterwards?
Then you only need storage for the textures and not for duplicate textures or other mod files.

[sofar]

Ah, You are saving all this mods.
What about just cloning one, pulling out all medias and deleting the clone afterwards?
Then you only need storage for the textures and not for duplicate textures or other mod files.

The server checks for updates to the mods 15+ times a day. The above suggestion isn't worth the effort.

[Lejo]

The server checks for updates to the mods 15+ times a day. The above suggestion isn't worth the effort.

Yes that’s a bit often. :D
I normally update the mods just @midnight

[sofar]

Yes that’s a bit often. :D
I normally update the mods just @midnight

Updating from git takes 2 seconds, for all the 100+ mods.

Having to download mods and then scrub them would take minutes. Assets are the bulk of the storage space needed, and the script I use to do all this already gc's the repos.

Even at once a day your proposed method would be much more resource intensive.

[sofar]

Major update:

The server now supports HTTP/2 and SSL! HTTP/2 is a much more efficient protocol than HTTP/1.x and supported by libcurl, which is what every Minetest client uses to connect to the remote media server. Therefore, from now on, everyone can change their server configuration to point clients to the https://address of the PRMS:

enable_remote_media_server = true
remote_media = https://minetestmedia.foo-projects.org/

Cheers!

HTTP access will continue to work for the foreseeable future, so that server owners can upgrade to HTTPS over time.

[GreenDimond]

Mod requests:
https://github.com/Ezhh/abriflame
https://github.com/Ezhh/abriglass
https://github.com/Ezhh/abritorch
https://notabug.org/TenPlus1/bakedclay
https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/basic_materials
https://github.com/HeroOfTheWinds/minetest-caverealms/
https://github.com/Ezhh/caverealms_lite/
https://github.com/TumeniNodes/c_doors
https://cheapiesystems.com/git/digistuff
https://github.com/TumeniNodes/facade
https://github.com/ChimneySwift/fancy_vend/
https://github.com/stujones11/hazmat_suit
https://github.com/LoneWolfHT/lavastuff/
https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/led_marquee
https://github.com/random-geek/morelights
https://github.com/Ezhh/other_worlds/
https://github.com/jogag/pizza-improved
https://github.com/stujones11/technic_armor
https://github.com/GreenXenith/waffles
https://github.com/12Me21/wires3d

[sofar]

https://github.com/12Me21/wires3d

This mod has no license statement at all, or at least not that I can find. Therefore, I can't add it.

The rest will be added.

[sofar]

I'm dropping Solar_plains as I don't think any server is using this atm (it's large, 1/3rd of the storage space the PRMS needs)

[Calinou]

Could https://github.com/minetest-mods/gauges be added to the list? The textures are pretty small but it might still help a little with loading times.

[LMD]

Is a simple media server enough(a http webserver such as Apache serving files) ? Or do I need special software ? I'd like to set up my own.

EDIT : Saw https://github.com/minetest-tools/mtmed ... er/main.go, would like to write my own/(using Java) - where can I access the specifications ? I am working thinking dreaming of a Minetest Server Edition with all the necessary tools to maintain a server. And would like to write a remote media server requiring nothing but Java, probably even with GUI.

[sofar]

EDIT : Saw https://github.com/minetest-tools/mtmed ... er/main.go, would like to write my own/(using Java) - where can I access the specifications ? I am working thinking dreaming of a Minetest Server Edition with all the necessary tools to maintain a server. And would like to write a remote media server requiring nothing but Java, probably even with GUI.

Why on earth do you want to use Java to reimplement it? The current implementation is working fantastically well and very efficient (low CPU/RAM usage), and can be compiled to run on windows if needed. Right now, the PRMS is sitting at 23mb RSS! And that includes data in-memory on 16707 media files!

Don't waste your time, the `mtmediasrv` daemon is feature complete and stable. You're literally throwing software development time into the toilet and are far better off spending it on some new service that doesn't exist yet. If you're a fan of wasting engineering resources or "you just want to learn", I'm not going to stop you, but there are entirely better ways to do both those things, AND make something new.

Note: as a language choice, Java is a really poor choice for anyone using Minetest as a lot of people are looking for low overhead services, and Java is the opposite of light weight. In other words: you're choosing a language which deters most players and server owners. That's your mistake, not theirs.

If you're still not deterred, have at it! The spec is in the MT code, essentially. Of course, the mtmediasrv implementation is really decent and should be an excellent guide.

[sofar]

Could https://github.com/minetest-mods/gauges be added to the list? The textures are pretty small but it might still help a little with loading times.

Added

[LMD]

The spec is in the MT code, essentially.

Ouch.

[sofar]

Ouch.

I wasn't joking when I said that coding it in Java was a waste of time.