Personal video collection

[ferdinand21]

I haven't yet paid for any of the premium sites, but I'm warming to the idea

Well I hope, that when I let the project I'm working on into the wild, there will be quite an incentive to source some videos from those premium sites

And you're right, only thanks to you I realized there is one whole option missing lol

[Fangsfury]

Had a little read through here sounds like an interesting idea that I'd definitely be interested in. I have a cloud storage collection of around 600gb (all Pmv/cockhero/edge challenges) and a local storage collection of about half that size with some double ups (not more than 15% I'd say) total video count should be approx 100

[ferdinand21]

Had a little read through here sounds like an interesting idea that I'd definitely be interested in. I have a cloud storage collection of around 600gb (all Pmv/cockhero/edge challenges) and a local storage collection of about half that size with some double ups (not more than 15% I'd say) total video count should be approx 100

It's great that you and are people interested Tho the thing is that the app will need the "source" videos from the producers/websites themselves to create a cockhero video on the fly. I'm planning to add other features, to also work with preedited videos/rounds but the default is you give it source videos and it stitches it together always differently.

[wwydfakb]

If we're sharing stats...

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Majority of the library is focused around E-stim Cock Hero/PMVs. Metadata coverage on stashdb and pmvstash is really good for that content now so most vids will auto-identify on import (if others want to get started). I supplement with megapacks of specific performers or sites that I like. Scene count is inflated from lots of short onlyfans/manyvids type clips.

I share the sentiment of others here - yes everything is usually readily available on streaming sites, but in my time lurking I've seen this community go through several "purge" events that required us to re-seed/build another google drive/mega archive. Seems the entire internet is going this direction so I cache practically everything I come across that I might want to access later. If enough of us do that we can re-populate whatever streaming sites pop up next.

For ferdinand, I like to propose a suggestion to explore developing what you're thinking as a stash plugin. The timing of your post is impeccable because I have been floating the idea of something similar for some time. The StashTV/StashGifs plugins are already a start in the right direction. I have been trying to work through how to add an interface that would allow you to steer what clips are selected based on tags/performers/scene markers.

I think building around an existing platform will make it much easier for others to get started as well as enable others more to more easily contribute (I'd like to take a stab at this too). A lot of good projects here have struggled to get momentum from being a little bit too technical IMHO.

Trying to keep this short but I think this is a great idea and I've wanted to see something like TeaseMe integrated with Stash for some time. I'm also prototyping a websocket connector for Stash <--> Restim so that funscripts can be automatically loaded and synced with whatever is playing. I think we have a really good path to turn lolol2's great E-stim Tower into something even more interactive and customizable.

Links for reference. Includes the plugins I am using as a basis for my efforts.
https://docs.stashapp.cc/installation/windows/
https://discourse.stashapp.cc/t/stash-tv/3627
https://discourse.stashapp.cc/t/stash-battle/5180
https://discourse.stashapp.cc/t/hotornot-v3/6199
https://discourse.stashapp.cc/t/stashgi ... ience/4259

[The Carnal Scholar]

Only PMVs and CH:

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Get. On. My. Level.

[gynephilos]

Only PMVs and CH:

To be honest, I thought your numbers would be higher. I have bought two 18 TB drives because of you and I still haven't finished that torrent

[The Carnal Scholar]

Only PMVs and CH:

To be honest, I thought your numbers would be higher. I have bought two 18 TB drives because of you and I still haven't finished that torrent

Good job!

A lot of what I've been collecting recently is one-minute long edits posted on ex dot com (formerly twitter dot com) which are tiny in size and often of low image fidelity but of incredible and mind bending aesthetic quality - instead of say... 4k 90m cinema quality mdma companion videos or whatever.

[Blagodaria]

Wow, that's an impressive collection for sure!
Was wondering, is there a way and have you thought about maybe sharing the collection?

Good CHs and PMVs are golden.
I've my own collection but it's quite small for the moment.

Thank you!!!

Been collecting porn since forever... aint gonna stop now

As of last count - 10 seconds ago - I have 1711 videos in my stash;

- 193 CHs (including yours, ferdinand21!)
- 355 PMVs
- ...and all the rest are the ever-growing, decades old custom collection

"Why?" - you asked...

Because:

- Funscripts: Every single CH and PMV has a funscript that I use during my Quest/Edge2 combo sessions; some of them custom-built with FunscriptDancer, since there was no funscript ever made for them
- Privacy: I want to practice the hobby without any of the IT behemoths knowing what I like and why. All my collection has been built up gradually, over VPN-ed connections. I use Linux since way before it was famous, and know how to stay under the radar.
- My own tags: I use tmsu and have a completely tagged collection, with the tags that *I* am interested in
- I play the videos with Milovana/monsieur_so's Python script, from a network isolated user; and my VR Helmet is connecting to a network-isolated VLAN, where an SBC serves the entire collection over minidlnad.

Well, you did say you were doing research... so I had to flex If there's enough interest in the setup, I can write up a guide - but it would not be for the faint of heart. Lots of technical details - LUKS-encrypted drives the SBC serves the collection from, tags for the entire collection via tmsu, networking and isolation...

Suffice to say I belong in the old guard; convenience never won over privacy.

[The Carnal Scholar]

But it's not about the size It's about collecting what you like.

[wwydfakb]

Get. On. My. Level.

The King returns!

It is you and the Compendium that pushed me to say screw it and carve out a chunk of the NAS

[SoShallow]

Am I the only one getting tired of people talking about their CH collections?

...I'm not talking about cockhero videos but regular videos from sites like metart, digitaldesire or similar...

P.s. I fall into option 4...

[flow_test]

My stats. I did a little cleanout earlier this year but it's still fairly insane. Tons of different studios: a near complete archive of kink.com / insex / gord content and many others, mostly bdsm-focused

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[The Carnal Scholar]

Get. On. My. Level.

The King returns!

It is you and the Compendium that pushed me to say screw it and carve out a chunk of the NAS

You have arrived on my level and I hereby acknowledge you as a peer.

[Fangsfury]

It's great that you and are people interested Tho the thing is that the app will need the "source" videos from the producers/websites themselves to create a cockhero video on the fly. I'm planning to add other features, to also work with preedited videos/rounds but the default is you give it source videos and it stitches it together always differently.
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so I'm assuming that the files would need to be stored locally then? unless you want to be dealing with compatibility for xyz cloud storage service on your backend which isn't really a reasonable expectation for a project like this... not to mention the ToS issues this could uncover... would be cool to have the app pick from different folders tho ngl

[ferdinand21]

so I'm assuming that the files would need to be stored locally then? unless you want to be dealing with compatibility for xyz cloud storage service on your backend which isn't really a reasonable expectation for a project like this... not to mention the ToS issues this could uncover... would be cool to have the app pick from different folders tho ngl

yes, the app is basically be a smart video player. you import your videos from your HDD and your own music too. tho some music will be shipped with it already so you can start faster and more easily. all legal and safe. that's the point.
I was thinking if it could be using file from the internet but that's probably not really feasible. atm you import the video files and it creates a library grouped by actresses in the videos. so each round will get a different girl. but later i would want to make different kinds of sequences/rounds, not only 1 solo performer per round. but that's the state now which i want to nail first.