Considerando PeerTube ou Bunny.net para Integração de Hospedagem de Vídeo com Discourse

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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 video playback at the system level — it can put heavy load on the server, especially when users upload large video files.

Because of that, I started exploring PeerTube as an external video hosting system to support video uploads and playback for my forum.

:small_blue_diamond: Issue 1: PeerTube videos don’t embed properly in Discourse

When I paste a PeerTube video link into the Discourse composer, it only shows a thumbnail preview — not an embedded player.
Users need to click the thumbnail and get redirected to PeerTube to watch the video, just like how Google Drive video links behave.

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.

:small_blue_diamond: Issue 2: Desired integration between PeerTube and Discourse

If I can make PeerTube videos playable directly inside Discourse, my ideal setup would be to connect the membership systems of both platforms.

Here’s what I hope to achieve:

  • When a logged-in user uploads a video on Discourse,

  • The video is actually uploaded to PeerTube under the same linked account,

  • And a playback link (or embedded player) is automatically inserted into the Discourse post.

This would keep videos off the Discourse server while maintaining a seamless user experience.

:small_blue_diamond: Alternative idea: Bunny.net integration

I recently learned about https://dash.bunny.net, which seems like a promising video distribution service.

In theory, it would be perfect if:

  • The forum admin registers and pays for a Bunny.net account, and

  • All videos uploaded by users on Discourse are actually uploaded to Bunny.net under the admin’s account,

  • With playback handled through Bunny’s CDN for fast delivery.

I understand that cross-system integration like this might be difficult, but I wanted to ask whether it’s possible or if any similar projects already exist.

:speech_balloon: Closing note

I’m not a programmer, so please forgive me if some of my assumptions are technically naïve.
Still, I really want to find a sustainable way to handle video uploads and playback on Discourse.

If anyone has experience connecting Discourse with PeerTube, Bunny.net, or any other video hosting platform,
I would greatly appreciate your advice or guidance.

Thank you very much for your time and help. :folded_hands:

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Did you add PeerTube to the iframe whitelist setting?

Still, it would be asking a bit much of your users to embed iframes.

There is a YouTube + Vimeo Theme component which achieved pretty much what you are seeking (at least with Vimeo), but it sadly hasn’t been maintained:

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