Christian Lawson-PerfectJun 23, 2025

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: @[email protected], 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.

Quick code: approximating π in a square

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Show threadChristian Lawson-PerfectJun 23, 2025
(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)
Show threaddoboprobodyne

@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

In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly

The WebAssembly build of FFmpeg allows you to run this powerful video processing tool directly within the browser. In this blog post I explore FFmpeg.wasm and create a simple client-side transcoder that streams data into a video element, with a bit of RxJS thrown in for good measure.

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Show threadSebastian LasseJun 25, 2025

@doboprobodyne @christianp

awesome!
In the long run it might also make the online transcoding tools with the "Start now" [to download malware]-button obsolete.

Funnily I talked about this [soon solved] problem with my funder @clemensg by phone today.

#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter

just et. al. too
please save us from uploading duplicate files or journalists from writing alt twice with clientside content-id comparison.

Show threaddoboprobodyneJun 25, 2025

@sl007 @christianp @clemensg

> clientside content-id comparison.

That's a neat idea!

#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter

Show threaddoboprobodyneNov 5

@sl007 @christianp @clemensg

Just to update this thread, sounds like #loops is heading in the direction of client side transcoding...

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/commit/8ce454e57a9b3c5f9b93842bd3ed92b66ef9fbc4

#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter

Add client side transcoding to Studio · joinloops/loops-server@8ce454e

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