PeerTube CLI

[girish]

All my docs go unread it's just peertube

[nebulon]

Oh haha, great https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/peertube/

[imc67]

@girish stupid me!

[rmdes]

it seems to work here :

and transcoding works too :

the "solution" is to disable HLS

Requires ffmpeg >= 4.1

Generate HLS playlists and fragmented MP4 files resulting in a better playback than with the current default player:

Resolution change is smoother
Faster playback in particular with long videos
More stable playback (less bugs/infinite loading)

If you also enabled WebTorrent support, it will multiply videos storage by 2

[robi]

@rmdes HLS seems to be messy.

is ffmpeg not >=4.1 by default?

does HLS being enabled mean the fragmented MP4 and original are in place? That already means 2x the original.

What is it about WebTorrent that 2x that even more?

[rmdes]

@robi I have no idea about all 3 questions

[rmdes]

Fresh update with the latest version on a fresh cloudron :

when I follow the doc here : https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/peertube/ to import a video from cli
I get

peertube import --url https://domain.com --username user --password bloodypass --target-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxx --tmpdir /tmp

the shell returns this :
--username field is required
--password field is required

Anything changed perhaps for the cli & latest peertube version ?

[rmdes]

So the peertube cli has now a neat feature to remember instances it is being used to upload from the cli :

peertube auth :

add [options] remember your accounts on remote instances for easier use
del <url> unregisters a remote instance
list lists registered remote instances
set-default <url> set an existing entry as default
help [command] display help for command

Examples:

$ peertube auth add -u https://peertube.cpy.re -U "PEERTUBE_USER" --password "PEERTUBE_PASSWORD"
$ peertube auth add -u https://peertube.cpy.re -U root
$ peertube auth list
$ peertube auth del https://peertube.cpy.re

When I try to use it, I get this :

node:internal/process/promises:246
          triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
          ^

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '/root/.config'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/root/.config'
}

[nebulon]

@rmdes looks like it now requires a config file. Obviously on Cloudron that path is not writeable. Have you checked if the config file may be specified via environment variable or commandline argument?

[rmdes]

@nebulon I tried to find this information but up to now I have nothing

[rmdes]

@nebulon from what I can see here : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=remote-tools
or better here : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=server-tools

There is nothing that indicate how to specify this on the command line.

[robi]

@rmdes is there a -C option?

[girish]

Just debugged this a bit . It seems the CLI uses application-config npm package which writes configs to https://www.npmjs.com/package/application-config#config-location .

[girish]

@rmdes it seems the CLI is broken: upstream issue is https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/4858 . I will make a new package with the patch since it makes the CLI unusable without it.