Hello everyone, I’ve recently built a Discourse forum and enabled users to upload videos. However, I noticed that Discourse’s built-in video handling isn’t very efficient or user-friendly. I don’t have much coding experience, but from what I’ve learned, this might be due to how Discourse handles …

[image] wenqin: I also tried using PeerTube’s iframe embed code, but it didn’t work either. In fact, after posting, the reply became completely blank and no video appeared at all. Did you add PeerTube to the iframe whitelist setting? Still, it would be asking a bit much of your users to emb…

Did you ever figure this out? I am currently experimenting with peertube and would like to be able to embed videos directly in my discourse posts. These are short screencasts and my site is private and not busy, so this should be a no brainer. But I am getting the same behavior as in the OP.

The answer appears to be in this older topic. You have to add the URL of the peertube server you want to use to the allowed iframes admin setting. So far I am seeing the video show up in my post but when I hit play it does not play. Still fiddling.. [image] Allowing peertube…

Considering PeerTube or Bunny.net Integration for Video Hosting with Discourse

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satonotdead September 16, 2026, 3:28pm 6

+1 to both services, I self-host Peertube and have used Bunny for years.

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