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Selfhosted youtube-like media/social-media platform? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by sdekna@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I am thinking of building a media-sharing platform... Big part of the platform will be storing/playing media, so wanted to ask if there are any open source solutions any of you can think of that I can use for this, or to kick start me in some direction.

Thanks.

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[–] noodleswind@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It exists: https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms

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Also, I am building one. Demo available at https://subatic.com

I developed a pipeline to create slow/fast gif, seeking thumbnail and transcode to various resolutions.

Also I sorted out u/NikStalwart concern using cloudflare R2.

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Math below.

It costs $0.36 to serve a million files, regardless of size.

An average of 3 sec hls segment, so I can serve 3 million seconds (833.33 hours) for 0.36$.

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1$ = ~ 2316 hours.

Average video is 10 minutes give or take.

So, 14,000 streams of a a video for 1$ or 72$ for a million streams.

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and the pricing can be reduced by increasing hls segment post first minute of video since initial buffering needs to be quick. I have done the math for that as well, it all comes down to ~10$ for a million views.

[–] NikStalwart@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Are there any TOS considerations for using R2 instead of Cloudflare's Stream platform?

[–] noodleswind@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

the above calculation is with hls segments, but if you go the simple route and create mp4 videos, the cost to serve a million views can come down to 0.36$.

[–] sdekna@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

what you did here my friend is called epic! 😎 loads of thanks!