• @PeggyLouBaldwin
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    6 months ago

    There’s a good reason Lemmy doesn’t have videos.

    peertube exists. it’s activitypub. lemmy is the reddit-like interface to activitypub. but the fediverse definitely has video. it even has live streaming through OwnCast (though i think peertube has livestreaming scheduled to be implemented as well)

    edit: hey i just found a movie station!

    https://movies.ctbperth.net.au/

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      I’m not informed enough to know how peertube works but running it is not free either. Nor is running a lemmy instance. Lemm.ee for example has a limit even on the size of images you can upload despite the fact that hosting images is orders of magnitude less bandwith and storage requiring than videos.

      • @PeggyLouBaldwin
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        16 months ago

        peertube uses webtorrents to share bandwidth among users: if you’re watching a video, you share the data to other users at the same time.

      • @QuadratureSurfer
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        16 months ago

        despite the fact that hosting images is orders of magnitude less bandwith and storage requiring than videos.

        In general, yes, when comparing images/video of the same resolution. But if I compare an 8k image to a low quality video with low FPS, I can easily get a few minutes worth of video compared to that one picture.

        As you said, it definitely costs money to keep these services running. What’s also important is how well they are able to compress the video/images into a smaller size without losing out on too much quality.

        Additionally, with the way ML models have made their way into frame generation (such as DLSS) I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing a new compressed format that removes frames from a video (if they haven’t started doing it already).