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Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Not feeling offended by pornography titles like "i was raped ..." is quiet hard, honestly. I have no issues with pornography itself, but that's extreme trigger material.

It's not real title.. the content provider intentionally made it dramatic

Yes, to fantasize about raping someone.

Do you not understand what the word offensive means?

Actual rape would've been straight up illegal with real consequences, including to the platform provider.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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I use Azure Storage + BunnyCDN... Pretty cheap/easy.

Just make sure to use the "volume" network as its much cheaper and latency matters far less for video.

I am new to azure, but is the volume network for azure? Or is it for bunny?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/cloudflare-stream/ > Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to a global market. > Storage: $6.00 - Storage costs are based on 1,200 minutes of video content at $5 per 1,000 minutes stored.

Ah! I see. Could this be because they pre-transcode to different bitrates, and have to store each version?

I considered that possibility, but decided the wording is fairly clearly referring to pre-transcoding library size (“500 GB of HD videos”).

On reflection, it’s possible that there was a miscommunication that led to this wording, since if it were the post-transcoding figure it wouldn’t be outlandish for something like VP9/H.264/AV1 at 1080p/720p/480p/360p, though it’d still be on the high side.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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Ah! I see. Could this be because they pre-transcode to different bitrates, and have to store each version?

I considered that possibility, but decided the wording is fairly clearly referring to pre-transcoding library size (“500 GB of HD videos”). On reflection, it’s possible that there was a miscommunication that led to this wording, since if it were the post-transcoding figure it wouldn’t be outlandish for something like VP9/H.264/AV1 at 1080p/720p/480p/360p, though it’d still be on the high side.

Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. They might also just be being conservative with the number of minutes, in case people upload massive bitrate videos.

Genuine question - what would they gain by making the storage low for the amount of video? I can't figure it out.

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Just make sure to use the "volume" network as its much cheaper and latency matters far less for video.

I am new to azure, but is the volume network for azure? Or is it for bunny?

bunny

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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PeerTube shows a banner the first time you use it.

I just checked out your instance and the only time I saw a warning banner was a tiny little thing at the bottom of the screen when your video was already playing with me connected to 2 peers. No accept button, not even an opt out button. Is that the stock install or did you add autoplay or something? I'm not sure I'd trust that to cover me under GDPR. It's a bit late by then. Also doesn't GDPR require active opt-in c…

That is stock install.

Anyway, from what I understand, the GDPR doesn't apply to my personal website because of https://gdpr.eu/recital-18-not-applicable-to-personal-or-hou...

Re: Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

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post #49

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I just checked out your instance and the only time I saw a warning banner was a tiny little thing at the bottom of the screen when your video was already playing with me connected to 2 peers. No accept button, not even an opt out button. Is that the stock install or did you add autoplay or something? I'm not sure I'd trust that to cover me under GDPR. It's a bit late by then. Also doesn't GDPR require active opt-in c…

That is stock install. Anyway, from what I understand, the GDPR doesn't apply to my personal website because of https://gdpr.eu/recital-18-not-applicable-to-personal-or-hou...

I wasn't trying to catch you out fwiw, I was evaluating my own potential use of Peertube. I'll stick to YouTube for now, they've got a vested interest in not tripping over GDPR.

I'd definitely spend more time trying to custom build a consent interstitial than making videos haha

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