dsh-reel

Local photos and videos tend to scatter across multiple drives. Browsing and playing them used to mean spinning up Jellyfin, Plex, or a hand-rolled streaming server—an extra port, an extra daemon, an extra config cycle. dsh-reel folds the entire experience directly into dsh Web: same port, same origin, a single Cordis route on the host side. Mount a few local directories and a full media library opens right in the browser, with zero extra processes and no separate build step.

On playback, video is served via native HTTP Range responses so seeking is instant and bandwidth is never blocked. For legacy containers the browser cannot decode natively—AVI, WMV, FLV, RMVB—the server transcodes on the fly through ffmpeg into fragmented MP4, streaming from a memory pipeline with zero disk temp files; seeking re-establishes the stream from the target timestamp automatically. The library UI aggregates all mounted roots at the top level and offers Current, All (recursive flat), and Grouped (folder-collapsible) browsing modes alongside grid and list views. Hovering the scrubber reveals a precise frame preview and timestamp, and on mobile users swipe up or down to flip through videos the way they would in a short-video feed.

It is built for people who already manage local files in dsh Web, maintain a growing collection of images and clips, and would rather not run a separate streaming stack. Think zero extra daemons, casual mobile browsing, or the option to lock any clip as a site-wide frosted-glass dynamic wallpaper. Requires dsh v0.1.5-rc.1+ and Node.js 20+; the plugin bundles ffmpeg and ffprobe as fallbacks, so it works out of the box.