-With Mediagoblin you can host video and audio content in a similar manner to the proprietary systems such as YouTube and SoundCloud. This system supports free media formats such as webm, ogv and ogg. Another similar system which might be better fitted for small servers is PeerTube, since it uses webtorrent to distribute video files. +With Mediagoblin you can host video and audio content in a similar manner to the proprietary systems such as YouTube and SoundCloud. This system supports free media formats such as webm, ogv and ogg. Another similar system which might be better fitted for small servers is PeerTube, since it uses webtorrent to distribute video files. Webtorrent will only work with WebRTC enabled browsers though.
@@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ When hosting media files you should take into consideration that since anyone on -
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@@ -291,9 +291,9 @@ After the install has completed go to Security settings and select CreIf you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to About on the administrator control panel and you should see your Mediagoblin domain listed there along with an onion address. You can then navigate to your site in a browser.
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ You should repeat that for however many accounts you want on the system and thenIt's a good idea to upload videos in webm format. In that case Mediagoblin will skip the transcoding step (which can take hours for videos of non-trivial length) and the whole process will be quicker. Transcoding just converts whatever file format you submit into a standard resolution and file type. On your local system you can convert a video to webm with:
diff --git a/website/EN/app_peertube.html b/website/EN/app_peertube.html index cf820cc1..b99e7c2c 100644 --- a/website/EN/app_peertube.html +++ b/website/EN/app_peertube.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> - +-This is a video hosting system similar to Mediagoblin but using webtorrent to help distribute the files to or between clients. This should be more practical for situations where a video becomes popular because the load is then spread across the network, with performance increasing with the number of nodes. +This is a video hosting system similar to Mediagoblin but using webtorrent to help distribute the files to or between clients. This should be more practical for situations where a video becomes popular because the load is then spread across the network, with performance increasing with the number of nodes. However, the torrenting aspect of it only works with WebRTC enabled browsers and so this means it's unlikely to fully work with a Tor browser. Without WebRTC then from a user point of view it's effectively the same thing as Mediagoblin.
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@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@ Select Add/Remove Apps then peertube. You will then be asked for aNavigate to your site and select Signup to create a new account. By default the maximum number of accounts on your system is limited to a small number so that millions of random internet users can't then begin uploading dubious content. After that it's pretty straightforward.