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Can PeerTube be configured for the less ambitious goal of self-hosted web video hosting (i.e. without peering and federation)? It seems to support adaptive bit

Can PeerTube be configured for the less ambitious goal of self-hosted web video hosting (i.e. without peering and federation)? It seems to support adaptive bitrate, and has a decent enough web player. I don't think there are many Free and Open Source solutions that are up to the task. Even Wikipedia uses a very bare-bones solution, without adaptive bitrate: it just points the browser at a .webm file.

roboyoshi 6y ago
I think yes. I checked the docs and to accomplish this you can basically lock down your instance for registration only (that you need to approve) and you can make sure you only follow your own instances. That way you could even setup a 3 Node ReplicaSet of PeerTube instances, only serving your personal videos for High Availability!
eska 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming? Personally I prefer having to buffer a bit but getting the video at the desired minimum quality. E.g. having to seek back because text suddenly became unintelligible, only to realize that the quality then isn't increased so I have to refresh... argh, very upsetting!
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  > why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming? I don't follow. Adaptive bitrate only applies to streaming. > having to seek back because text suddenly became unintelligible That's an issue with the minimum quality being set too low, not an issue with adaptive bitrate itself.
  - eska 6y ago
    By streaming I meant live streaming as opposed to video playback. There one can offer the video at different qualities by switching between different files, or change the quality adaptively within the same stream. I'm not aware of sites using a minimum quality for adaptive streaming. It usually goes down all the way to potato quality, without a visible setting..?

roboyoshi 6y ago

I think yes. I checked the docs and to accomplish this you can basically lock down your instance for registration only (that you need to approve) and you can make sure you only follow your own instances. That way you could even setup a 3 Node ReplicaSet of PeerTube instances, only serving your personal videos for High Availability!

eska 6y ago

Out of curiosity, why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming? Personally I prefer having to buffer a bit but getting the video at the desired minimum quality. E.g. having to seek back because text suddenly became unintelligible, only to realize that the quality then isn't increased so I have to refresh... argh, very upsetting!

MaxBarraclough 6y ago
> why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming? I don't follow. Adaptive bitrate only applies to streaming. > having to seek back because text suddenly became unintelligible That's an issue with the minimum quality being set too low, not an issue with adaptive bitrate itself.
- eska 6y ago
  By streaming I meant live streaming as opposed to video playback. There one can offer the video at different qualities by switching between different files, or change the quality adaptively within the same stream. I'm not aware of sites using a minimum quality for adaptive streaming. It usually goes down all the way to potato quality, without a visible setting..?