HACKER Q&A
📣 alangibson

Static Video Hosting?


I'm light of YouTube's forced monetization, it seems like some creators might want an easy way to self host videos. Does anyone know of any good 'static video hosting' tools? I'm thinking of an easy to use tool that would chunk videos and create manifests for DASH, generate a thumbnail, and do whatever else you'd need to do to host streaming videos on your own blog.

  👤 fsflover Accepted Answer ✓
Perhaps you could simply use a self-hosted PeerTube instance (separated from the Fediverse if you wish): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube.
👤 btown
Not self-hosting, but mux.com provides scalable infrastructure for video delivery. Gets extremely expensive though if you're talking about frequent livestreaming to a sizeable audience.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#vid... may be helpful.

👤 brudgers
The critical thing Youtube provides is discoverability. Hosting videos can be done on your hard disk. Served from AWS.

Youtube makes it easier for people to care about a person's created content. It solves a social graph problem.

Good luck.

👤 kgraves
Vimeo?