Selfhosted youtube-like media/social-media platform?
reddit / selfhosted

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sdekna · 2023-10-25 05:36

I am thinking of building a media-sharing platform... Big part of the
platform will be storing/playing media, so wanted to ask if there are
any open source solutions any of you can think of that I can use for
this, or to kick start me in some direction.


Thanks.

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NikStalwart · 2023-10-25 05:48

[PeerTube](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube).

Also: don't. Bandwidth egress fees for video streaming are
eyewatering.

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noodleswind · 2023-10-25 06:53

It exists: [https://github.com/mediacms-
io/mediacms](https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms)

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Also, I am building one. Demo available at
[https://subatic.com](https://subatic.com)

I developed a pipeline to create slow/fast gif, seeking thumbnail and
transcode to various resolutions.

Also I sorted out u/NikStalwart concern using cloudflare R2.

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`Math below.`

It costs $0.36 to serve a million files, regardless of size.

An average of 3 sec hls segment, so I can serve 3 million seconds
(833.33 hours) for 0.36$.

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1$ = \~ 2316 hours.

Average video is 10 minutes give or take.

So, 14,000 streams of a a video for 1$ or 72$ for a million streams.

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and the pricing can be reduced by increasing hls segment post first
minute of video since initial buffering needs to be quick. I have done
the math for that as well, it all comes down to \~10$ for a million
views.

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noodleswind · 2023-10-25 06:56

the above calculation is with hls segments, but if you go the simple
route and create mp4 videos, the cost to serve a million views can
come down to 0.36$.

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NikStalwart · 2023-10-25 07:20

Are there any TOS considerations for using R2 instead of Cloudflare's
Stream platform?

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noodleswind · 2023-10-25 07:21

i went into cloudflare discord servers and asked the same question.
they said it’s fine.

also, cloudflare stream does a lot more than r2.

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sdekna · 2023-10-25 07:22

what you did here my friend is called epic! 😎
loads of thanks!

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sdekna · 2023-10-25 07:23

this looks interesting! Have you used it before?

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NikStalwart · 2023-10-25 07:28

Not personally, no. But it comes up in most fediverse discussions.

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sdekna · 2023-10-27 02:58

just played around with it... Easy k8s deployment with most of my
needs come out of the box... So far so good.
Thanks for the suggesstion!