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    Using PeerTube with FV Player

    PeerTube is an free and open-source, decentralized tool helping anyone create their own video platform. You can get PeerTube for free and create an video platform on your own server. The tool also takes care of encoding into HLS Streams and serving your videos.

    To use PeerTube with FV Player, you need to:

    • Use FV Player Pro

    While installing something to your server may sound daunting at first, PeerTube provides thorough documentation, as well as an active and passionate community, ready to help you get it up and running in no time.

    How to use PeerTube with FV Player

    You can use either FV Player to display any video from publicly accessible PeerTube instances, or link your own instance and use it via the Media Library pop-up.

    Using supported instances

    FV Player supports the instances that can be found in PeerTube’s registry of instances. Any video from the listed instances can be used with FV Player.

    To check if the domain you intend to use is there, you can see the cached instance domains by clicking the Show cached domain list button in FV Player -> Settings -> Hosting -> PeerTube:

    1. Pick a video from an supported PeerTube instance and copy the link

    2. Insert the video link into FV Player editor, as you would with any other video source. The splash image and title get grabbed automatically.

    Here’s a publicly accessible video from framatube.org, the instance run by the PeerTube team. You can watch the video at the bottom of this guide:

    Private videos do not work at the moment. Publicly accessible, but unlisted videos work.

    Linking your own instance

    You can also browse and pick the videos from your instance in the WP library media browser, instead of having to grab the links manually. All you have to do, is link your instance and user to FV Player. Here’s how:

    1. Go to FV Player -> Settings -> Hosting -> PeerTube Self-hosted:

    1. You need to insert your:
    • PeerTube URL – the domain name of your instance
    • Username and password you use to log into the PeerTube instance:
    PeerTube login page
    1. After filling in the information, click Generate Tokens. If all goes well, a Tokens saved message will appear.

    1. Now you can go and create a new player. Click Add video:

    1. There should be an PeerTube tab in your media browser. Switch to it to see all the videos your user has uploaded to the instance:

    Due to API limitations, only a single user can be connected to FV Player at the moment. You can still also link videos from other users without linking the other accounts.

    Example

    Here’s a video explaining how PeerTube works. It comes from the framatube.org, the instance hosted by the developers of PeerTube:

    What is PeerTube?
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    What is PeerTube?

     
    LanguageEnglish
    What is PeerTube? Peertube is an open-source video platform. Like YouTube or Vimeo you can watch, comment and upload videos online, but there's more... it empowers you to be more than a user! You can make the web yours, by installing your own PeerTube! Federation PeerTube instances can sync together. When Meow-tube chooses to sync with Dog-tube, all of Dog-tube videos can be watched on Meow-tube! The video files stay on Dog-tube server while being streamed c This federation approach creates a video network with shared video-catalog without paying for more disk space. This is the base of the web! P2P streaming You don't need a data-center to run PeerTube. When someone watches a video, it is streamed directly from the PeerTube instance. When several people watch simultaneously the same video, bits of the video are shared between them in the background. Peer-to-peer streaming makes video streaming resilient and efficent: a successfull video shouldn't bring an instance down. User freedom Peertube is an open-source software with community-driven development. Institutions, medias, communities, anyone can make their own videotube, with their own rules, at a low cost. In the long run, you'll be able to find and join the Peertube instance that really suits you. Make the web yours again, get its control back, one video at a time… just join PeerTube: Joinpeertube.org

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