#webvideo — Public Fediverse posts

@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

I'm in two minds about public media outlets like RNZ publishing the video they produce on YouRube;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4OXwfZE1SaCQ4jRAuaoXQ

It makes sense for publicly-funded media to publish anywhere that members of the public might be, especially where we don't have to pay. In fact, any media funded 100% with public money ought to be under a CreativeCommons BY-SA license, or even placed in the public domain. So *anyone* can publish it, anywhere they like.

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#PublicMedia #WebVideo #RNZ #DataFarms

What's even cooler is I learned I can subscribe to a PeerTube channel using AntennaPod, and download videos to watch offline. Presumably this works with any podcast app that can handle video. The only missing stair I found in the experience so far was when I locked my screen during playback. The video not only stopped, but got deleted and marked as played.

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#TIL #RSS #VideoBlogging #WebVideo #PeerTube

"A recent study from Sandvine found that during the Covid-19 crisis YouTube has dethroned Netflix as the most popular content on the Internet, consuming 15% of Internet traffic to Netflix’s 11%."

- #CoryJohnson, 2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/coryjohnson/2020/05/27/google-goes-blockchain/

#SandVine #YouTube #NetFlix #WebVideo