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FediTips has moved!

UPDATE: Sites are back online, that was quick! 🥳

(fedi.video is unaffected, so feel free to have a browse round there if you're interested in videos on the Fediverse.)

fedi.videoFedi.VideoHighlighting the most interesting content on PeerTube, and uploading PD and CC videos too. Bigotry and conspiracy theories are forbidden.

@feditips

Best wishes for a speedy "recovery" of your sites!

@feditips it just was working for me now

@feditips

So I though I'd look at Fedi.Video and see what I've been missing.

The main thing is that there is a looping circle in the middle of the screen. The video plays fine, but you have this constantly looping symbol. (Dairy Milk Review). It displays at regular and full screen resolution.

@number6

Hmm... that's odd. Are you viewing on a phone or computer?

Have you tried reloading the site?

@DeShawnFranco @number6

Could you give some examples of the devices this happens on?

And the specific videos?

Each video is playing from its home server, so different videos may behave differently.

@feditips @DeShawnFranco

I was using chromium.

The good news is that it works better with Firefox. The bad news is that it really grabs system resources -- like 10% of the CPU. I think this is because the "peering" part is actually working. Like 500 byte upload on FF compared to 50 byte on chromium.

Eventually, it finishes buffering (0 up/ 0 down) on FF.

You know, if I could just download the video it would probably take fewer resources.

@number6 @DeShawnFranco

I use Firefox on Linux with a cheap laptop and hadn't noticed problems, which OS is this on?

I'm wondering if it is behaving badly on some setups... 🤔

About the chromium spinner problem, looks like this has been reported before and is fixed on the updated version of PeerTube:

github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

Unfortunately my managed hosting provider hasn't updated to the latest version yet, I will ask them about updating.

GitHubBuffer animation circle in video player never disappears on Chrome · Issue #5927 · Chocobozzz/PeerTubeBy ROBERT-MCDOWELL

@feditips @DeShawnFranco

This was my first time trying. These were just the first two I randomly picked.

This one eventually worked after a reload:

fedi.video/w/94Tmh4cFFj2D4dvNx

This one never worked under chromium:

fedi.video/w/mor9NWYwYMHmrHVfo

You can see the little spinner that never goes away. I turned off my add-blockers in case that was the issue.

It did work under Firefox but was also very CPU intensive.

@number6 @DeShawnFranco

Hmm... weird... 🤔

Thanks for the feedback and testing of this 👍

Was this on a computer?

@feditips
I'm currently on desktop (linux). Reloading the page helped with the Dairy Milk Review, but not with "Vegerami", which shows the circle even when the video is paused.

It probably has something to do with federation and buffering. I would rather deal with a choppy feed then have a non-stop spiralling icon on the very centre of the screen. Even putting the icon off to a corner would be an improvement.

It seems like behind the scenes FV is not retaining its buffers.

@feditips Is there a quide somewhere that explains how peertube works? I have a few videos on diode zone, but I don't see any of them on your site. But I see other video from diode zone -? just curious I'm probably using the tags wrong or something.

@kd8bxp

I select specific video accounts or channels to follow from fedi.video, and if they accept the follow then that account/channel's videos are visible and searchable on the fedi.video webite.

I don't follow entire servers because I want to curate each account that is visible on the site.

@kd8bxp@mastodon.radio for some reason every PeerTube server takes the whitelist approach instead of the blacklist approach of software like Mastodon. It's frustrating and I've basically given up on it for now.

But there is a server list, along with the number of instances they connect to, and whether they allow sign-ups here:

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

instances.joinpeertube.orgPeerTube instances

@DeShawnFranco Seems a little strange, that would mean the admin would have to keep up with and preview every instance (?).
I'm not an admin, and I think that would be a lot of extra work.