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Selfhosted youtube-like media/social-media platform?
  • 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$.

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    Selfhosted youtube-like media/social-media platform?
  • It exists: https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms

    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.

    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$.

    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.

    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.

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    What is the cheapest setup that works for your Plex/Jellyfin setup?
  • also delete redownloadable media. most of the media i want to watch is downloaded 10 minutes prior. I just leave hard to find media always there.

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    What is the cheapest setup that works for your Plex/Jellyfin setup?
  • I'm doing something similar except now I'm running out of space on my 1 TB volume. Now I need to upgrade and/or figure out a long term solution to convert to H265. Some of my files have file size differences on the scale of 400 MB vs 2 GB.

    run tdarr. schedule it to run at downtime.

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