Video speed and buffering optimisations

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On very media heavy threads (specifically the bossman thread in this case) I find video buffering is slow and tends to only load a couple of seconds of video before having to buffer again. Is there something I can do from my end to speed up or optimize the loading of video content on here, or do I just have to sit and suck it?
 
If you're using ethernet it might be this very random windows setting, on a long shot. I only fixed this super recently and it made my speeds a lot better

Mine was default set to 100mbps for some reason. Use auto or 1gbps is the way to go I believe
 
A while ago someone donated $6000 for media cards for us and I've got 2 of them in as of... Thursday. I'm actually working on this right now.
 
I don't know how you would integrate it with the forum software, but I'd say try to recode the video files to webm with a compression ratio of 32 using the same codepath you use for thumbnails.
 
All the beef fit to eat said:
Can you post about how you're doing it, and what software is involved or as redacted as possible for opsec. I'm really curious
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Ephyra (formerly ruforo, formerly sneedforo) is a planned forum rewrite that I have been thinking about for maybe 6 years. I've started from scratch on it twice myself. It's not just a figment of my imagination, any time I get bored (and sometimes late at night when I can't sleep) I write up design documents with AI assistance. At some point I'm going to have the entire forum system written up to every detail and will simply conjure it into existence with AI. I know how I want basically every element to be written and how I want it written. I've gotten far enough along sometimes I poke at designing the frontend now that AI-assisted web design is a thing.

Multimedia has become very important to the forum more over time and there's been consistent problems with upload speeds, download speeds, video playback reliability, and an increasingly big issue with user upload formats. .MOV is very popular with iPhone users, especially for screen recording, and that doesn't play on certain browsers or on certain operating systems.

So the first part of Ephyra will be the media component. This is actually the first thing I ever sketched out in my head. The way XenForo's media buckets work is just catastrophic for a website like this that has tens of terabytes of video files. I've been complaining about it for probably a decade now.

It's going to be licensed as a product of USIPS and will be open source under a GNU license.


Edit: And for how it works, the Ephyra system will run on the server in the same way that the chat is literally just Ruforo. It is the only surviving part of the forum rewrite from COVID-era. It will process videos and use webhook callbacks to notify XF that there are better media files to use.
 
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Ephyra (formerly ruforo, formerly sneedforo) is a planned forum rewrite that I have been thinking about for maybe 6 years.
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Someone in genchat once showed me an archived github page named "volksforo". Was that the same thing? It was in rust and had the code for the chat itself, as far as I recall.... 🤔
 
I've successfully tested the media module and I am like 80% happy with the video player. I will test it tomorrow.
 
Null said:
I've successfully tested the media module and I am like 80% happy with the video player. I will test it tomorrow.
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If you mean you made like a brand new media player widget, that alone would be of interest if you open sourced it.

Not that you weren't planning on doing that anyway, just pointing out that most chat programs are electron apps already (ie chromium) and one of the two main achilles heels of the open sourced ones is their garbage media integration
 
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