Hi - My team is using a private Discourse forum right now, and we’d like to embed videos in our forum. However, we want to keep our videos private so we don’t want to host these videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Do we have any alternatives? Thanks

You could launch your own video server or pay someone hosting fees to run one for you. I was running my own video server for awhile that I launched, managed, etc, but since it was more a toy than it was useful, I decided to save the $50/month I was paying for the VPS and took it offline. If you laun…

For a small private community you can increase the max upload size and upload those to Discourse. There are some things to consider: videos consume a lot of space so you will want to setup some form of block storage (s3 and the clones) and CDN if you are putting those in a s3-like bucket you …

Hi, You can use Vimeo for your private videos so that they don’t show up elsewhere. It’ll work for you if you’re ok hosting the data on Vimeo. Check this out: Video Making Tools for Creative Professionals

Thanks all. To answer a few questions: We’re looking at about 500 users on the forum. We would like to avoid taking the user out of the forum to view the video. Therefore embedding is a must. @Destry_Hunt - What does it take to launch our own video server?

It is not hard at all to launch PeerTube. ( GitHub - Chocobozzz/PeerTube: ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser · GitHub ). Those instructions will take you step by step. If you do not want to be taken out of the forum, though, I cannot remember if Pee…

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Oh Good. I imagine Peertube will probably do the same in that case. Too bad I destroyed my Peertube instance a week ago!

how do we enable video uploads? right now it only allows pix.

Permit the file extensions and raise the upload file size limit.

got it. also, is there a way to instead of uploading video to just point to it so that a member can use their username and password to view it but no one outside of the forum can?

¿Cómo incrustar videos privados?

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fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan) 3 Julio, 2019 07:35 4

Hola,

Puedes usar Vimeo para tus videos privados para que no aparezcan en otros lugares. Esta opción te servirá si estás de acuerdo en alojar los datos en Vimeo.

Mira esto: Video Making Tools for Creative Professionals

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