New Customized Stash Server v0.20.2 for DeoVR

philpw99

If you ever use Stash to categorize or organize your VR video, you'll know how useful Stash really is.

The big problem for Stash is that: the web interface need a plugin to support DeoVR. The plug-in also loses the graphical web interface of Stash, which makes it not so user-friendly like the native Stash.
So here is my newly modded Stash binary release:

https://github.com/philpw99/stash4deovr/releases

It works exactly like any other Stash, except in each scene you will see an "Ext. Player" button. Click on that and DeoVR will open that video file through http protocol.

This way you can enjoy the best web interface of Stash and can play video natively in DeoVR. It's like the best of both at the same time. Also you can use Quest 2 or Pico 4 to view and play the videos as well. Best of all, this solution is completely free.

Does it sound too good to be true? Damn right it does ! It's up to you to trust the Stash team and me.

rotmgman

philpw99 Hi! Will you ever consider making a stash4deovr release for the newer version of stash?
I've been trying to figure out a way to increase movie card size on your release version with custom css, but nothing is working so far. I see that the newer version of stash has added size slider to movie (called groups now) and other tabs, so I was wondering if you'll be pulling the new stash changes into your custom build.

mediocrepattern

The VR interface shows up but I got "unsupported format", any idea why? I can play the video in 2D with the stream url but not the url from Ext. Player

philpw99

mediocrepattern
Maybe you are using Pico 4 ? I am using Quest 2 and most videos plays fine.
Usually you cannot play the video with the stream url, this is the whole reason I had to make the customized Stash.
If you can play files with stream URL, go for it.

philpw99

rotmgman

Yeah, I thought no one is using that so I stopped updating for a long time.
There are two problems in updating the Stash4Deovr:

I am not good at Golang and how to automatically generate the executables. For each release I spent quite a long time figuring out how to bypass the errors and get those things compiled.
The app relies on direct link feature, but the recent Meta update has broken this feature and makes my build pointless.

~~Yeah, I will make the new release, but this time I will think about a way to automatically generate a deeplink for each video. It will take some time. We will see.~~

Update: OK, I just tested it. The direct link works again. So it's much easier for me. I am going to update the special build to 0.30.1

Done:
https://github.com/philpw99/stash4deovr/releases/tag/v0.30.1-32dev

mbze430

I just tried your latest 30.1 and DeoVR on my Quest 3 didn't do anything. I still get the the same interface as the original Stash. It also broke filemonitor.

philpw99

mbze430
I have a Quest 3 as well, and it works fine.

The latest edition was submitted for PR in Stash, so I made it a little less obvious to be compatible with the original UI.
Therefore, I put a little switch in the Settings -> Interface -> Scene Player -> Show 'Open in External Player' button.
When the setting is on, in scene details you will always see the little "Open in External Player" button.

Yeah, it's hard to catch it, but if I had done it the old way, that add the whole "Open in Ext." text to it without a setting to switch it off, I would have been a bad contributor.

Even so, I think the chance of my PR being accepted is lower than 10% anyway. Stash is other geniuses proud child, I am in no way to match their prowess. My code is messy to say the least.

Now it comes to the strange "broke file monitor" bug, because my changes includes adding a route, adding a switch in the setting, and making the UI always show a button. How it broke the file monitor, I have no clue. Perhaps it was a developer edition, not a stable one, so the file monitor was broken by someone else's contribution.

Right now I just updated the fork to latest developer edition. Maybe it works again?
https://github.com/philpw99/stash4deovr/releases