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You have a website right? You can just host the files yourself.

Seems like it would be better to make lower resolution versions of your videos before using YouTube or rumble links

Probably set up your own cloud or wait for current services (or those to come) to offer better options based on their profitability

Content management will always be a tough one. Files are big and difficult/expensive to distribute. As much as I'm a data hoarder and host my own stuff, I realized I have to keep $1000s worth of hard drives around and rotate every 3-5 years which gets uber expensive for the average pleb. That said, I think as a creator, you should always have a backup of your content, and never rely on cloud services to retain them for you. At best, accidents happen, at worst your kicked off the platform. I think it's worth utilizing the cheapest storage you can afford and who you want to support. If you want to support nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 you should. If you want to leverage free platforms until they take you down, sure, but have a backup plan. Explore other cloud options for distribution, but always have a backup locally. There are cheaper ways to do this depending on how tech savvy you are, and want to put effort into. For example I pay like $2.50/mo for B2 cloud storage for over 1tb of content (thats not used for distribution though). Dirt cheap for a cloud backup, B2 isn't meant for content distribution though, so depending on how many views you get traffic goes up, so it's all on you. You'd save money with compression and so on. You couldn't reach YouTube level of distribution as views go up though. So maybe you can explain more specifically what you are looking for.

I used to have one, but I'll look into this! I'll see if I can use my start9 for this as well.

Thanks for the detailed response! I was looking to simply have all of my content available natively on Nostr, but as my video library storage costs increase over time, it doesn't seem viable. nostr:nprofile1qqspdudqzqx5ellme3prp68qus5se3vynsddcexkv5la5p7qxxcswjcprdmhxue69uhhw6r9v96zu6rpwpc8jarpwejhym3wvdhj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytcymfx7k gave me the idea to look into hosting my videos on my own website and perhaps distributing from there. I'm a total noob in this so I have to research deeper. I have a start9, so maybe I can use it alongside hosting my own website for a more sovereign approach.

You could self-host videos on your own Nostr Blossom relay, or if you want a format that is viewable by other platforms, you could host your own Jellyfin server and post your Jellyfin URL in your Nostr posts and they should play.

No problem! Someone else that might be able to help out in this area is nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq although I'm not sure hes ready for media distribution yet. I still don't have enough internet bandwidth to really support media customers, that's more of a cloud operation. So keep that in mind. Your videos will be streamed over your internet connection, so I'd expect you to have something at least 100mbps-1gbps, ideally on a fiber connection for lower latency. I all heavily depends on how many streams you expect to have on your videos, bots and AI will take up much of the traffic.

Thank you! This gives me a good general breakdown of my possible options.

I have a start9 and I believe I saw Jellyfin as one of the apps. I'll give it a look. Thanks!

Start9 ... Nice! Right now Start9 is set up behind a TOR connection, which may only work on TOR apps and browsers. Their latest (which is in Alpha or Beta) is bringing the ability to set up Start9 using your own domain name, such as: Jellyfin . FerenandoMorales . com

Yeah just discovered that the video will only play on a TOR browser since it's an onion link. I'll be waiting for that update then! Thanks

How long are your videos? 1GB is pretty large for a social media video. Handbrake is great, can you not compress it down any further?

I just began making videos. I compress them with handbrake and host them on gitea. I plan to publish a long-form article about it tomorrow.

They are usually between 1-2 hours, since they're long format podcast interviews. The weird thing is that today I tried to compress a 2.7GB video on handbrake and it ended up being 3.8GB. It seems to happen with the videos I edit and export from riverside.fm

Please tag me so I can read!

Sure.

Try using a lower resolution ‘web optimized’ format.

As it turns out, I'm not sure how to tag people, but here's the article. Let me know if you need any help. I might need to do a cloudflared tutorial. https://habla.news/u/marc@primal.net/self-hosting-videos-with-gitea

Thanks! I guess you already now this, but the mic could use some fixing.

I downloaded Gitea on my start 9 but max size is 50mg per video :(

Thanks. I'll see what I can do.

Sorry. I tend to make short videos. Peertube is better for larger videos. It's easy to host on Yunohost because you don't need to know DNS. https://doc.yunohost.org/oc/admin/tutorials/domains/dns_nohost_me/ https://joinpeertube.org/

Haha I have no idea what you just said but I'm sure AI will give me a crash course, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Will I be able to upload 2-3GB videos?

I think so, assuming you have the hard drive space. Jellyfin will also work, but it requires a login. It's geared for motion pictures.