From cc36bb9d5c78b656eb722c13b0f4fb4f4dfd0ef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:40:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention peertube as an alternative --- doc/EN/app_mediagoblin.org | 2 +- website/EN/app_mediagoblin.html | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/EN/app_mediagoblin.org b/doc/EN/app_mediagoblin.org index baae49b7..33943552 100644 --- a/doc/EN/app_mediagoblin.org +++ b/doc/EN/app_mediagoblin.org @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ #+END_EXPORT -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/. +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 [[./app_peertube.html][PeerTube]], since it uses webtorrent to distribute video files. When hosting media files you should take into consideration that since anyone on the internet can view your content then this could significantly increase your bandwidth usage and overall strain on the server. Also unless you are just hosting images then hardware such as the Beaglebone Black won't be powerful enough for a good user experience when either uploading or playing back videos. It's recommended that you use one of the more powerful quad (or more) core single board computers or an old laptop if you want to run Mediagoblin on it. diff --git a/website/EN/app_mediagoblin.html b/website/EN/app_mediagoblin.html index 984ea4fe..fadcf2ad 100644 --- a/website/EN/app_mediagoblin.html +++ b/website/EN/app_mediagoblin.html @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> - + - +‎

-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. +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.

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If 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.

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It'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: