Gallery Of Plant Videos

This is a future feature note.

Purpose

A gallery would let users browse course-visible or public movies by title, uploader, course, date, and research-use status. Thumbnails should come from lambda-resize first-frame responses, and playback should use signed S3 URLs.

Current Storage Model

• Movie metadata is in DynamoDB movies rows.

• Original movies and generated artifacts are in S3/MinIO.

• Flask should return searchable metadata.

• lambda-resize should return first-frame thumbnails and signed playback URLs.

• Flask should not stream movie bytes.

Implementation Direction

• Add or extend a Flask metadata API for gallery search.

• Reuse /resize-api/v1/first-frame for thumbnails.

• Reuse /resize-api/v1/movie-data?format=json for playback URLs.

• Respect the same access rules as /api/list-movies and direct movie access.

• Add meaningful tests against DynamoDB Local and MinIO.