PeerTube CLI

[imc67]

Hi @girish , I discovered PeerTube since it was announced here and was very enthusiastic because it fits in our needs. However during the past 6 weeks I'm beginning to loose faith in this project.

The project has a very slow "beat", they write they have only 1 (paid) developer. We had to wait 5 weeks to get an essential bug (not able to config) solved. After your last update it looked fine and I started to setup everything but then discovered a "stupid" bug again: videos don't play on iPad (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/2941)! The developer knows this for at least 3 weeks but there seems no investigation/progress. Most of our viewers use iPad so we can't start (again) ...
There is also a very annoying issue that themes are alternating switching during browsing, so 1 click you're in dark mode and the next one in light mode (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3007). Beside that there are 350 other open issues ...

I spent hours to find an alternative (I know Cloudron always have two apps of the same "kind") and found: https://platform.avideo.com/AVideo_OpenSource (https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/blob/master/README.md) I will create an App request with this info.

Kind regards,

Marcel.

[imc67]

@imc67 said in PeerTube CLI:

I will create an App request with this info.

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2944/avideo-platform

[girish]

@imc67 They seem to have fixed the iPad issue - https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/commit/b6a8cfc5714c93d0ecf6154e5d3a25b33b50b8cd

[imc67]

@girish this morning they released 2.4.0 adding many features and solving even more bugs of which 2 of them where blocking for us

[girish]

@imc67 Yup, got a notification for it, very nice!

[girish]

@imc67 BTW, did you manage to import your videos or is it in hold?

[imc67]

@girish I uploaded (via YT URL) 1 video just to test. Then discovered the, for us blocking issues and since then waiting for the update.

However, I remember that importing a YT playlist by URL didn’t seem to work (nothing happened). So I really prefer a build in CLI to do this.

[imc67]

@imc67 said in PeerTube CLI:

@girish this morning they released 2.4.0 adding many features and solving even more bugs of which 2 of them where blocking for us

Friendly reminder

[girish]

@imc67 Noted I will get to this next week though since we are rolling out 5.6 this week. But I am very interested in getting that app to stable state asap.

[rmdes]

Also interested in the cli to be able to relaunch transcoding jobs

example :
sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- --generate-hls -v c249320b-5263-4b2b-b1e8-14d07403079c

from : https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3121

[imc67]

@girish friendly reminder

[girish]

@imc67 I pushed a new package with youtube-dl and the CLI installed. Do you require the cron support?

[imc67]

I tried (in the 0.7 version) the following command:

sudo -u root NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v b8b791eb-9e38-4c4f-b797-0347662bb45f

but this error returns:

sudo: npm: command not found

Is the path in the command ok?

[nebulon]

peertube as many other apps should ideally run with the cloudron user, so maybe try that user instead of root.

[imc67]

@nebulon same result

sudo -u cloudron NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
sudo: npm: command not found

[nebulon]

Ah sudo apparently does not carry over the env bits for this. So instead use gosu cloudron:cloudron npm ... that should do.

[imc67]

@nebulon said in PeerTube CLI:

gosu cloudron:cloudron

getting one step closer but still an error:

gosu cloudron:cloudron NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
error: exec: "NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config": stat NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config: no such file or directory

[nebulon]

NODE_CONFIG_DIR is already properly set in the environment pointing to /app/code/server/config so remove that from your commandline.

[imc67]

@nebulon again one step closer, but...

/app/code/server# gosu cloudron:cloudron NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
error: exec: "NODE_ENV=production": executable file not found in $PATHwith the current size.

[girish]

All my docs go unread it's just peertube