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Daniel Bellingradt

I am looking for a suitable video platform - apart from Youtube - that other academics use to share and show your own videos (from conferences etc.). Thanks for your suggestions.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I will certainly check PeerTube and Twillo as options.

But a real opencast infrastructure for academic videos is still missing.

@dbellingradt I think that's a tricky one. I'd like to move stuff off YT but the lack of integrations or lower available space on other services hasn't led to me finding any good options yet.

@dbellingradt @ElenLeFoll I just thought of a possible solution:
1) Use twillo.de (very easy as long as your institution uses DFN-AAI)
2) Create H5P-Content: twillo.de/oer/web/faq/#accordi
3) Choose Content-Type 'Interactive Video' and upload your file
h5p.org/interactive-video
4) Decide if you want to use interactive features or not :) - this step can be a bit annoying...
5) Publish and share!
twillo.de/edu-sharing/componen

Caveat: a) only 500 MB storage, b) platform is for #OER, not recordings

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twillo · Offene Bildungsmaterialien auf twillo finden und teilenOffene Bildungsmaterialien können Sie auf dem OER-Portal twillo nutzen, verändern und eigene Bildungsmaterialien mit Anderen teilen.

@dbellingradt @ElenLeFoll but we need a general Opencast-infrastructure, independent from/of any one institution...

Pinging @nfdi4culture @NFDI4Memory could that be a project for one of the NFDI-consortia, or for the whole NFDI?

@dbellingradt Just curious: what is wrong with youtube? I find it OK for posting videos.

@dbellingradt have you tried if L.I.S.A. Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (did not find them on mastodon at this minute, hints welcome) would be ready to host your content? I have had good experiences with them. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/

@dbellingradt I would say Vimeo as well… first thing that pops up in mind…

@dbellingradt …but what’s wrong with YouTube? Except from the fact that it’s from Google and that there is some censoring.

@dbellingradt #PeerTube comes to mind, have a look at FairTube's (@peertube ) generalist streaming instance, which can be used for free up to a certain data upload limit (I believe it was 2GB?) ...

We've used it to make video recordings of our Experimental Publishing and Scaling Small / @copim end-of-project conferences available online w/o needing to rely on the big commercial players such as YT and Vimeo, see e.g. fair.tube/c/scaling_small_conf

fair.tubeScaling Small 2023 conferenceThis channel makes recordings of the COPIM project’s Final Conference “Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books” available online. The conference took place online on 20 April 2...

@dbellingradt

If the content is somehow related to technology: @tibhannover's AV Portal maybe?

@dbellingradt What do you mean by "real"? Programs like PeerTube are unreal?