Library and metadata
Design collection browsing around clear titles, descriptions, and media details. Search and indexing are development targets, not verified shipped capabilities here.
Products Asteria Media
Self-hosted media systems
Your media. Your infrastructure.
A self-hosted media application direction connecting a readable library experience with deliberate storage and delivery choices.
In Development
The challenge
A clearer boundary. A better system.
Owning a media collection also means owning its organization, access, storage, and availability. A useful interface needs a manageable foundation beneath it.
The approach
Asteria Media
Media brings library discovery and playback into a focused application direction. It is a practical setting for studying infrastructure ownership, metadata, and asynchronous processing.
Product direction
Designed around the decisions that matter.
Proposed capabilities guide the engineering work. Their implementation is a separate validation step.
Playback experience
Explore streaming playback with clear loading and error states. Format support, seeking, and bandwidth behavior need device-specific validation.
Deployment ownership
Keep storage configuration and access boundaries explicit. Self-hosting trades platform control for responsibility for updates, backups, and availability.
Under the surface
Understand the system path.
- 01
Library interface
Browse and discover
- 02
Application API
Authorize access
- 03
Metadata store
Index the collection
- 04
Media storage
Own the source files
- 05
Delivery
Serve supported formats
A collection,
with a clear home.
Discovery · Metadata · Playback
STUDY / 01
Field notes
Example library item
STUDY / 02
City fragments
Example library item
STUDY / 03
Quiet landscapes
Example library item
Engineering considerations
The tradeoffs belong in the design.
- Storage and recovery
- Track source files separately from generated assets. Back up metadata and validate restore procedures; object storage alone is not a backup strategy.
- Processing workloads
- Thumbnail creation and transcoding need CPU-intensive workers. A lightweight edge runtime should coordinate those jobs rather than pretend to execute every codec.
- Private delivery
- Authorize media requests and scope signed access. Cache behavior and range requests should be verified for the chosen storage and delivery stack.
Practical contexts
Where the architecture earns its place.
Personal collections
Make an owned collection easy to browse while keeping deployment and access under the operator’s control.
Infrastructure experiments
Study metadata indexing, asset pipelines, and storage adapters using a tangible application workload.
Development direction
Built in deliberate steps.
In Development
An existing application project in development. Its library and playback direction is documented here; the application source is not included in this repository, so specific implementation claims remain unverified.
- PHASE 01
Library foundation
Clarify metadata, browsing, access control, and supported playback requirements.
- PHASE 02
Storage adapters
Explore local and object storage behind a consistent access contract, with backup and restore checks.
- PHASE 03
Processing and delivery
Evaluate queued asset processing, dedicated transcode workers, and CDN delivery after the core experience is validated.
Proposed sequence. Milestones describe validation goals, not release commitments.
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