I have a decent amount of video footage that I’d like to share with friends and family. My first thought was Youtube, but this is all home videos that I really don’t want to share publicly.
A large portion of my video footage is 4k/60, so I’m ideally looking for a solution where I can send somebody a link, and it gives a “similar to Youtube” experience when they click on the link. And by “similar to Youtube,” I mean that the player automatically adjusts the video bitrate and resolution based on their internet speed. Trying to explain to extended family how to lower the bitrate if the video starts buffering isn’t really an option. It needs to “just work” as soon as the link is clicked; some of the individuals I’d like to share video with are very much not technically inclined.
I’d like to host it on my homelab, but my internet connection only has a 4Mbit upload, which is orders of magnitude lower than my video bitrate, so I’m assuming I would need to either use a 3rd-party video hosting service or set up a VPS with my hosting software of choice.
Any suggestions? I prefer open-source self-hosted software, but I’m willing to pay for convenience.
Doing it on a VPS you’re not going to be able to do real-time transcoding, so you’ll have to pre-transcode a bunch of different bitrates.
Peertube will do that for you, and also handle giving a nice interface for people to watch the videos on with multiple quality levels to pick from.
I don’t know of any services that automatically pick the quality based on your connection quality though, even youtube doesn’t do that.
Are you sure Youtube doesn’t pick video quality based on connection speed? It will frequently drop down to 360p when my connection speed is particularly shitty that day, and I’ll have to manually increase it (I’d rather have occasional buffering than a blurry mess).
you only really need to pre-code one file. Especially with a network that limited lol.