#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.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
25 points (96.3% liked)
Selfhosted
40372 readers
415 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
If I don't go the whole peertube way, I probably just link the videos. Good advice, thanks!
Popular choices include peertube and MediaGoblin
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).
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.
Okaay yeah that seems completely obvious when you think about it. I was a tee worried you'd have to like block everything everything :-)
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.
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.
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.
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?