doboprobodyne
@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago
@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon#webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization#edgeComputing#webGL#W3C #activitypub#AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon
Jeff Sikes
@box464@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

EDIT2: PeerTube is no longer using WebTorrent for Redundancy - see thread below
 
PeerTube has RSS feeds with WebTorrent links. You can grab those links and seed whatever content you wish using a WebTorrent client without having to install an entire PeerTube instance.

What does this do? It helps alleviate some of the streaming costs of servers and ensures a smoother experience for everyone on the decentralized web.

Yay for open source platforms!

webtorrent.io/desktop/
Christian Lawson-Perfect
@christianp@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A few days ago I spent a little bit of time looking at #PeerTube, to see if it can replace YouTube yet.
I tried and failed to set up an instance on my own server, because it doesn't have enough RAM to keep up with transcoding.
I made an account on cuddly.tube: @christianp@cuddly.tube, and had a go at live streaming there but I don't think it kept up. I also uploaded a short video: https://cuddly.tube/w/sMqkvBnzeLk1UtY44nXVeq.

Are there any PeerTube instances that can reliably live stream? I don't mind paying my way in.
Ingo Lantschner
@ilanti@troet.fediverse.at  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@_elena @hikingdude @Gruene_Poellau

I opened up this issue on GitHub to address the problem of interaction. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7119

I still wonder why remote interaction is made so difficult when there will always be more remote users than local ones. After all, every like on PeerTube so far counts 10 times more. ;-)

Hint: If you have an account on GitHub you can vote for this issue.

#PeerTube#RemoteInteraction#ActivityPub
Christian Lawson-Perfect
@christianp@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A few days ago I spent a little bit of time looking at #PeerTube, to see if it can replace YouTube yet.
I tried and failed to set up an instance on my own server, because it doesn't have enough RAM to keep up with transcoding.
I made an account on cuddly.tube: @christianp@cuddly.tube, and had a go at live streaming there but I don't think it kept up. I also uploaded a short video: https://cuddly.tube/w/sMqkvBnzeLk1UtY44nXVeq.

Are there any PeerTube instances that can reliably live stream? I don't mind paying my way in.
Ingo Lantschner
@ilanti@troet.fediverse.at  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@hikingdude @_elena @Gruene_Poellau @ele

I finally managed to like this video with my Mastodon account mastolove But it's a loooong story. Made a hopefully helpful article out of it. https://ingo.lantschner.name/post/2025-06-23-like-peertube-video-mastodon/#quick-start

If someone want's to host it in English please go on. My whole blog is CC 4.0. The source is some markdown-flavour (Tufte) which I can share as well.

#fedihelp #peertube #activitypub
Fireside Fedi
@firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Good day all you lovely Fedizens! Once again I'm looking forward to the upcoming week where I get to talk to interesting folks! All times are Eastern / UTC-4.

Monday 1100 @mizkirsten with https://theindiebeat.fm

Thursday 0800 @Floppy with @manyfold

Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live

After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live
#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJ15PXgRihoPku7JMdDnsw

All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live

#stream #owncast #live #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #fedicast #livestream #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree

If you're enjoying the show, please consider supporting our new nonprofit btfree.org at https://givebutter.com/btfree. We're currently running https://tubefree.org which is a moderated peertube open for signups right now!
7sleepersmusic
@7sleepersmusic@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Does anyone have a #FediForDummies tutorial on how to follow #PeerTube accounts across instances? For example, I'm searching for @account@instance.video from my @7sleepersmusic@spectra.video account but not getting any accurate results. But if I search for @account@instance.video from Mastodon it shows up immediately, no problem. Any ideas? #FediHelp#Fediverse