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   Christian Lawson-Perfect (christianp@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 22:23:18 JST Christian Lawson-Perfect

   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.

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     doboprobodyne (doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 22:23:15 JST doboprobodyne

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     @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

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     Christian Lawson-Perfect (christianp@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 22:23:17 JST Christian Lawson-Perfect

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     (to answer the inevitable question from mathstodon.xyz people: I *could* set up a PeerTube instance linked to mathstodon, but I want to be sure about how much work it is before seriously considering that)

     Cadu Silva :neurodiverse: repeated this.