Can we not use streamable to post stuff?

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[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Can someone suggest a good alternative then? streamable is very user friendly otherwise.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

bitchute or spee.ch is where I upload stuff.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I just tried both, both pale compared streamable. bitchute requires you do a lot, like give the video a title and a thumbnail and load it from your own drive rather than from a URL. spee.ch has some blockchain bullshit that's super slow. Losing streamable as an option, I'm afraid, is going to prevent me from contributing, because I also can't, and wouldn't want to, link directly to thenyc, kaotic, etc.

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True, but for bitchute you can automate most of it. I use youtube-dl to download videos from sites, and ffmpeg (ffmpeg -i source-video.mp4 -vf "select=eq(n\,0)" -q:v 3 thumbnail.jpg) to get the thumbnail for the video (that command just extracts the first frame).

I could probably script that so that I can just give it an URL and it downloads the video and gives me a thumbnail with one command, but I don't upload that frequently that it's necessary