Clarification on streaming_playlists and web_videos folders?

[KuJoe]

Hello, I have a few questions regarding object storage buckets for PeerTube:

1. Is it required to have 2 different buckets for streaming_playlists and web_videos or can I use one bucket for both? If I can use one bucket for both, is there a benefit or any downsides to having two buckets compared to one?
2. What are these folders for exactly? Is streaming_playlists for anything that gets transcoded and web_videos for the source/original files?
3. Are the cached « redundancy » videos from remote instances still stored locally on the server or are those stored in either of these folders?

Thanks!

[Chocobozzz]

Hi,

@KuJoe

Is it required to have 2 different buckets for streaming_playlists and web_videos or can I use one bucket for both? If I can use one bucket for both, is there a benefit or any downsides to having two buckets compared to one?

No downsides it’s just the way you want to organize your objects in your object storage provider.

@KuJoe

What are these folders for exactly? Is streaming_playlists for anything that gets transcoded and web_videos for the source/original files?

streaming_playlists are for HLS files (fragmented mp4, m3u8…) and web_videos for videos injected directly in the DOM (see https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/configuration#web-video-transcoding-or-hls-transcoding)

@KuJoe

Are the cached « redundancy » videos from remote instances still stored locally on the server or are those stored in either of these folders?

They are still stored locally

[KuJoe]

Thank you, that all makes sense and I appreciate the link to the documentation.