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PeerTube is basically developed by a single guy and has solved the infrastructure problem that many organizations have when wanting to host videos. Any organization can now host VoDs and live events on their own server(s) without being bled to death by the hosting provider since the badwidth will be shared among the concurrent viewers.

This is such an underappreciated piece of technology that I hope many intitutions will adopt, at least as a backup against using the usual Youtube/Facebook/Vimeo/Twitter/Instagram as content hosts



Is it possible to embed PeerTube videos within your own custom frontend or are you forced to use theres? As in, could someone create a clone of the New York Times for example and within each article have a video embedded (from PeerTube tech)?

I've wanted to create a combat themed video site for years, since most sites get censored, and PeerTube always seemed like a perfect solution.


I'm not sure if the following link is exactly what you need (you'll need some more info)...But, i thinki it is in the direction that you need: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-embed-player

Basically, what you are asking is possible, and you should navigate around the documentation specific to the Peertube api. (Sorry, trying not to sound like a guy who responds with "RTFM"....but, i guess i sort of am; sorry :-)

But, hey, what you want is possible! :-)


Yup, it's that amazing.

That's why I think said institutions should donate to the project ;)




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