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• Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Issue is such channels need giant amounts of storage for this.

  Linus tech Tips showed his multiple upgrades over the years it’s quite crazy what they need on storage space.

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  • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LTT storage is excessive. He stores all his footage in full quality instead of just storing his final edited videos in a compressed format. Plus if you’re a youtuber with millions of subscribers you can afford to pay for a few TB of storage to hold and serve your videos. Its not that expensive.

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not after you lose your channel and all your income. PeerTube doesn’t appeal to people who make a living at this because there’s no revenue stream.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        there is revenue stream. liberapay is integrated, get your viewers to subscribe through there. they can donate any amount, literally.

        then its also common that content creators cooperate with companies, mostly tech companies, to advertise their products. that can still be done on peertube. what they can’t anymore is to show generic ads for everyone every few minutes.

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      • socialsecurity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sometimes it ain't about the revenue stream.

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    • loie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agreed. For archival, honestly 720p is good enough. Hockey highlights are uploaded in 720p, but 60 fps for the high motion - for GN or any other info based talking head type stuff, 30 fps will look fine.

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    • Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uh he just build a 2PB rack or something so hes far away from TB

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  • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just storage, but bandwidth.

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  • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Storage? Traffic is the real cost

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As someone who worked for years in video transcoding, archiving, streaming, and content management in general: there are absolutely ways to do this efficiently in a self hosted context. You could absolutely build a system that fits your bespoke needs in all of these categories.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hosting a peertube instance would be almost nothing I comparison to this. It’d just be a duplicate of all uploaded videos at worst, which he’s storing many times that amount of raw footage anyway. They probably wouldn’t even notice the overhead.

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With many, many servers, otherwise things would go down fast on each new video release. And each server having a fuckton of bandwidth, too. That’s not free.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don’t need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don’t need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.

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