Dragonflight - self-hosted broadcast media asset management. SRT/RTMP/SDI ingest via Blackmagic DeckLink, FFmpeg proxy generation, growing-file editing via SMB + Premiere Pro CEP panel, BullMQ job queue, S3-compatible storage (RustFS). Replaces Grass Valley AMPP FramelightX.
Two things that together stop bogus URLs from masquerading as a recording:
PROBE BUTTON in the New Recorder panel. Before you commit to record, hit Probe Source - the capture container runs ffprobe with a 10s timeout against the URL and returns the parsed streams. UI shows green Signal Detected with codec/resolution/fps/audio, or red No Signal Detected with the actual ffprobe error message. For SDI it lists DeckLink devices. Listener-mode sources cannot be probed standalone (would block waiting for a publisher) and the UI says so.
MAIN STATUS LABEL ON THE RECORDING CARD now mirrors the live signal instead of hardcoding Recording. So a recorder pointed at a dead URL goes Connecting... -> Connection error (red) instead of looking like everything is fine. When frames actually start arriving the label flips to Recording (blue) and the dot turns blue. If a previously-good stream drops the label switches to Signal lost (red).
API:
* capture: POST /capture/probe runs ffprobe and returns { ok, streams, format, error? }
* mam-api: POST /api/v1/recorders/probe proxies through to the capture sidecar with a 15s outer timeout
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Wild Dragon
Self-hosted Media Asset Management platform built to replace Grass Valley AMPP FramelightX.
Services
| Service | Port | Description |
|---|---|---|
| web-ui | 8080 | Browser-based MAM interface + capture controls |
| mam-api | 3000 | REST API — assets, projects, bins, jobs |
| capture | 3001 | SDI capture daemon (Blackmagic DeckLink + FFmpeg) |
| worker | — | Async job processor (proxy gen, thumbnails, conform) |
| db | 5432 | PostgreSQL 16 metadata store |
| queue | 6379 | Redis 7 job queue (BullMQ) |
Quick Start
# Clone
git clone https://forge.wilddragon.net/zgaetano/wild-dragon.git
cd wild-dragon
# Configure
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your S3 credentials and secrets
# Launch
docker compose up -d
# Open
open http://localhost:8080
Architecture
SDI Input (DeckLink) → capture service → dual FFmpeg streams
├─ HiRes (ProRes) → S3
└─ Proxy (H.264) → S3
↓
web-ui ← mam-api ← PostgreSQL ← worker (BullMQ)
├─ proxy_gen
├─ thumbnail
└─ conform (EDL → FFmpeg → export)
Tech Stack
- Backend: Node.js / Express
- Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS
- Database: PostgreSQL 16
- Queue: Redis 7 + BullMQ
- Storage: S3-compatible (RustFS)
- Media Processing: FFmpeg
- Capture: Blackmagic DeckLink SDK
- Deployment: Docker Compose
License
MIT