Using Peertube as a backend for transcoding

gerardmx · Février 19, 2024, 8:59

Hello there,

We are building a video share website from scratch, and we are interested in using Peertube as a backend to transcode videos. In this scenario, all videos will be uploaded to Peertube through the API and user won´t interact with the Peertube UI, furthermore the videos will be set as private in the Peertube backend.

So in our custom platform made from scratch by us, once a user click on a video, it will be sending a request to the S3 object storage and not to Peertube, then the user won´t literally interact with the Peertube UI. Furthermore, the Peertube frontend won´t be accesible to users.

Can we use Peertube for this matter? Do we need to publish anything publicly in the Peertube fronted?

Thanks

vid-bin · Février 19, 2024, 10:51

You have to follow the same license everyone else follows.

github.com

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Chocobozzz · Février 20, 2024, 5:58

Yes I think you can use PeerTube. If you install PeerTube without modifying its source code, and just interact with it as an external tool using its REST API I don’t think you have to publish your front-end

gerardmx · Février 20, 2024, 9:37

Awesome many thanks, and congrats for the good work. We will contribute with a plugin to the project since we need to customize the transcoding settings.