I am thinking of building a media-sharing platform… Big part of the platform will be storing/playing media, so wanted to ask if there are any open source solutions any of you can think of that I can use for this, or to kick start me in some direction.
Thanks.
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.
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$.
Are there any TOS considerations for using R2 instead of Cloudflare’s Stream platform?
what you did here my friend is called epic! 😎 loads of thanks!