doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@christianp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>christianp</span></a></span> </p><p>Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.</p><p>I read some time ago of people using <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/webAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webAssembly</span></a> to transcode video in a user's web-browser. <a href="https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23</span><span class="invisible">/ffmpeg-webassembly.html</span></a></p><p>Since then, I believe <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WebGPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebGPU</span></a> has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.</p><p>I have not seen any <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peertube</span></a> capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.</p><p>I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.</p><p>My own interest is seeing a <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Piefed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Piefed</span></a> (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/autotranslate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autotranslate</span></a> posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!</p><p>Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/webVideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webVideo</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HLS</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/transcoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transcoding</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/edgeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edgeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/webGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webGL</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>W3C</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ffmpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ffmpeg</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathstodon</span></a></p>