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Self hosting video streaming (lemmy.mindoki.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello !

I'm a self hoster of a lemmy art instance. I would like to have the possibility to make informative videos, for example how do you do large flat areas in watercolor or how does this paper holds up etc.

I guess those videos would be minutes long and seen maybe dozens of times per year (or decade), that's why I would like to try to self host them (I have a ~700Mb up line) but good luck searching for it or my google-fu (Duck duck go fu...) has totally left me.

I would love to integrate it with lemmy but I'm not there yet (haven't even compiled the sources) so some sort of web serving would perfectly do.

Any idea of where to start off? FOSS would be lovely off course:-)

Thank you !

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[-] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

#Peertube got already mentioned, but just serving video files may already suffice. Modern webbrowsers are capable of playing videos. Some tweaking of parameters may be necessary when encoding them. Also, no frills such as dynamic adoption of bitrate/quality or high-level stuff like commenting, likes, or subtitles.

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 1 year ago

If I don't go the whole peertube way, I probably just link the videos. Good advice, thanks!

[-] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 7 points 1 year ago

Popular choices include peertube and MediaGoblin

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I checked out Peertube and it's amazing! Obviously overkill for my needs, but it seems like a really good platform (and it's from France, yay!).

Only worry I have, will my instance "mirror" other I stances? I'm confident sharing videos because I know they won't be looked at very much, but with a sort of decentralized cache system it could be costly (in bandwidth).

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 4 points 1 year ago

Peertube won't mirror any content from other instances and it won't even list any if you don't federate with any servers. Then it's just your little bobble with your videos where people can play them on the site.

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago

Okaay yeah that seems completely obvious when you think about it. I was a tee worried you'd have to like block everything everything :-)

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could try hosting a PeerTube instance to host your videos. Or you could find a PeerTube instance to your liking and upload your videos there if you are not ready to host an instance yourself.

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I could start out just using someone's peertube, but where is the fun and tinkering in that :-)

I will keep it in mind for a fallback solution though.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

You can configure your Pict-rs media backend that is included in Lemmy to also allow uploading videos. But of course that would allow it for all members of your Lemmy instance.

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, how would you configure that? I mean if it's easy, I could authorize, upload and remove the authorisation.

Edit: would it be so easy as adding the file extensions and 'up' the upload limit?

[-] NewDataEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Many nice programs have been stated here but I'd like to throw Media CMS in the mix

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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