Videos.fsci.in

History

April 2018

On April 15, 2018 a discussion on video hosting kicked off in FSCI matrix channel

raghu kamath: i am planning to host these videos on my website too, and also provide links to files and video files used

raghu kamath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xau4v8OXRyY&list=PLFDnlFYBM_7W9s6TrHBVvAuDE_u8jg0bO

raghu kamath: Also i was searching for an peer tube instance in india

pavi: Someone big should host it. Video is expensive and I wouldnt recommend FSCi do it

shirish: if anybody knows and has the skillsets, let me know and we can try and figure out.

shirish: probably even hamara couldn't handle it , it would need quite a bit of cache for it work.

shirish: end of network kind of thing.

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Pirate Praveen: @pavi: I think scaleway.com accounts have unmtered bandwidth

Pirate Praveen: to scale, it will use p2p

Pirate Praveen: https://firedragonvideos.com/videos/watch/f669c599-99b0-4b71-9a52-941e509632a7 I started using this instance of peertube

[...back and forth with pavi about domain name length]

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: peertube dot co.in is still available, if we want to host

Pirate Praveen: @raghukamath: if you are interested, we can try setting up one

pavi: too expensive IMHO. Does anyone have big cash?

pavi: Maybe we can start a funding drive and see how it goes.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: well, the whole point of peertube is that, the server need not take all the load

pavi: Yes I know. I am still concerned.

Pirate Praveen: we could start with 3 euro per month plan on experimental basis for a few months

Pirate Praveen: and decide to continue or not later

pavi: Wow does it work for peertube?? I am surprised.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: why not?

Pirate Praveen: yes, disk space is going to be an issue

pavi: @Pirate Praveen: Maybe I am too dumb to learn about the rendering capabilities of a decentralised video server.

Pirate Praveen: @pavi: it is just bandwidth + storage

Pirate Praveen: yes, there is a component of video transcoding too

[...some more back and forth about technicalities]

pavi: Lets go for it, I can sponsor a server. Someone buy the domain name.

June 2018

There was some issue with YouTube and blender and the link https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/ was posted on the FSCI matrix channel by raghu kamath

raghu kamath: yeah, but i feel sad, people need this kind of jolt to move. anyway, i am no better myself. i need to find an instance of peertube. like i said last time we can may be organise something

Pirate Praveen: @raghukamath: we can run our own if we have some more volunteers

Pirate Praveen: currenty its just too few people running to many services

Pirate Praveen on June 20, 2018: if anyone would like to volunteer to setup a peertube instance, let me know. even if you are new, we can mentor you with basic system administration

The discussion channel at https://app.element.io/#/room/#videos.fsci.org.in:poddery.com was created on June 20, 2018 by Pirate Praveen with Harish, pavi, and raghu kamath as members.

Pirate Praveen: lets run it for a few months on trail basis Pirate Praveen: and then decide to make it permanent or not based on the cost and other factors

This codema thread from 2018 November says:

harish k:

Hi All,

I am currently maintaining a peertube instance for fsci @ https://videos.fsci.org.in/

I would like to handover its responsibility to someone .

Currently, it is running from my personal Scaleway account.

On 28 Nov 2018 there are a couple of messages in that thread:

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer: I am willing to maintain the peertube instance for fsci. @harishk., please provide guidelines to maintain the server and documents. I am going through the installation documents available online. Pirate Praveen: @shine also volunteered (we discussed about it at debutsav.in)

There are some back and forths after that, and 2 years later, on 10 Oct 2020:

Akhil: This issue is done and peertube was migrated to an cloud instance in Hetzner. Thanks @harish k and @Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer for the migration and @Kiran S Kunjumon for hosting. Closing the related issue.

In October 2023, a poll was started

sahilister:

FSCI runs a Peertube instance at https://videos.fsci.in which hosts a few videos https://videos.fsci.in/videos/local?a-state=42.

FSCI's Peertube instance hasn't been updated since probably when it was setup back during COVID times. It's running v2.2.0, while latest Peertube is v5.2.1

It cost ~5.09 euro per month.

Do we want to keep the instance around as it involves costs and need full planning to bring to latest version.

In the poll the responses were:

Snehal Shekatkar: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

Although unfortunately I don't have much time and relevant expertise to support this, I can very much support this financially. So I would like to keep it going. If someone is also willing to teach me somewhat, I might try to intermittently take care on the server side.

Pirate Praveen: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

If we find new volunteers, we should keep. I think we should keep the poll open for longer (1 week at least and even 2 weeks) and ideally ask around more widely for volunteers before we shut down. Unless we ask explicitly for help people outside the community won't know we need help.

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

Need to update and add videos frequently. Steps should be taken to make the instance more publicly available

Raju Devidas: Sunset videos.fsci.in

Unless we/someone else are actively/intermmitently using the service, we better sunset the service to actively focus on used services.

Akshay: Keep videos.fsci.in around and plan to update

I volunteer to update it. But I have no opinion on cost of maintenance. Alternatively we can just keep a static archive of the videos in some server.

The poll was unfortunately settled only on September 14, 2025 with outcome to update.

Pirate Praveen: @Akshay are you still interested in updating peertube? Akshay: @Pirate Praveen Oh, I don't remember what happened here. I think I volunteered because there were a couple of videos of mine present. I think the same logic applies. I don't have a comment on cost, but I can keep it updated. If it is being sunset I can do the static archive too. Will do later this week