Re: Video recordings

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

On 6/3/2025 11:20 PM, Tobias Fiebig wrote:
> Moin,
>> We are (and have been for some time) looking for other streaming
>> solutions to use in addition to YouTube. [...]
>>
>>      We currently have between 300K and 400K minutes of video (around
>>      2.5TB) growing at about 60K minutes (300G) per year.
>
> So, some points for that:
>
> - I'd be happy to host a(n additional) mirror ftp/http for that; 2.5TB
>    with 300G growth does not sound too bad.
> - Streaming-site wise, it might make sense to reach out to the
>    VOC / media.ccc.de; There might be some opportunity there to join
>    forces. If you want, I can see whether I can make a contact.

I am trying to explore how we could set up a peertube server to present 
IETF videos. As Antoine Fressancourt previously mentioned, peertube is 
an open source standard, supporting ActivityPub and thus integrated in 
the Fediverse. People more knowledgeable than me have assured me that 
hosting the IETF videos would be easy, and a couple of them have 
proposed using their own servers. But I wanted to learn a bit more 
before being able to present the results to the tool teams.

My first todo item was to estimate the load. Robert Spark answered that. 
Getting 2.5TB of storage and adding 300G per year is not extraordinary. 
It probably requires a dedicated server. Serving 600K minutes per year 
is also not too extraordinary, but probably requires a bit of planning. 
According to https://joinpeertube.org/en_US, peertube has built in 
provisions to offload part of the traffic. If that does not suffice, 
some CDN support might be required.

Second item on my list was understanding how the data can be uploaded 
from the IETF to a peertube server. I assume the tools team has 
something available.

The third item is to do a little experiment. Any final solution would 
have to be IETF branded, probably registering the a server name under 
ietf.org. But before that we can set up a peertube server with a small 
subset of the video, and assess how it works. Mainly, check that the 
upload process can run smoothly, and that the user experience is good. 
We are not there yet, but could do that very soon once we understand how 
to upload videos. Once we have done the experiment, we will know whether 
peertube would be an OK solution.

We may be able to get some results before the June 10 meeting of the 
tools team, but they would be preliminary. I thought it would be a good 
idea to discuss this peertube option at a side meeting during the next 
IETF.

Any suggestions about next steps? Maybe set up a mailing list, organize 
a side meeting, work with the managers of peertube servers who already 
volunteered?

-- Christian Huitema