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So, I'm new to Gemini and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for hosting media files? For small files (such as podcast audio) you could host it with a Gemini server from the looks of it, but for videos thats gonna be a bit iffy with no session restarting.
I know that Gemini is mostly meant just to distribute text (thats part of why I find it interesting), so maybe linking to another protocol would work? I'd like to avoid running a Gem server just to also host a HTTP server for this.
Torrents might work, but not everyone is comfortable with those and it might be interesting to set up a seeder on a server. I suppose I should see what players like VLC and MPV support.
2 years ago · 👍 mc, satch
Also, cool Chris Were is here. It's always nice to see people I recognise from around the net when exploring new communities. · 2 years ago
I suppose I wasn't looking for built-in playback as much as ideas for how other people might approach this sort of thing.
In my head it's just a list of links with titles descriptions for each video/audio file, nothing fancier than that. If it can open in a player and play as it downloads that'd be great, but certainly not needed. · 2 years ago
Additionally Heres a photography page hosting images: gemini://royniang.com/photography.gmi and a music makers page where they host their songs gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lovetocode999/music.gmi · 2 years ago
Some browsers like Lagrange have built in audio playing and image viewing support. Theres several gemini hosted podcast and even an imageboard where you can upload photos using the titan protocol. built in video playback or huge file hosting is too much, and both are already addressed well with other protocols. You would be suprised at what people have done. Here is an example of a podcast hosted on gemini gemini://gem.chriswere.uk/trendytalk/ And that imageboard i mentioned gemini://IIch.space/img/ · 2 years ago
kensanata: 50MB isn't very big in the realm of video unfortunately :P
Many of the things I've made (1080p60 video that I try to leave as uncompressed as possible before YouTube butchers it) teeter into the realm of 1GB . I could probably get them to half that size without really compromising it, but unless I'm hosting Standard Def content it's not gonna get all that small.
kelbot: That's neat, good to know that clients can bridge the gap.
Maybe I'm overthinking this and serving video over Gem would be just fine. I honestly don't really restart downloads anyways and if your connection is good enough to stream video from other places downloading should be fine. · 2 years ago
Some clients do support streaming. Amfora for example can pipe media files to standalone applications. Such as audio and video files getting passed on to mpv or image files being passed on to an image viewer. · 2 years ago
I just host "big" files, meaning 50MB or so – just download them. I suspect my server has some sort of request timeout to defend against denial of service attacks and that this therefore prevents the download of large files over small connections. I'd like torrent integration, though. I do not think this needs to be more than hosting magnet links, though. Why add conplete bittorrent client to existing clients? · 2 years ago