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1. Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 08:03:52 UTC Sean Tilley

   Big milestone: everything on the @films account and all subchannels has been successfully migrated over to Object Storage for #VidCommons. This is a process that I have to go over manually, which is annoying, but the benefit is that every piece of media I go through gets reviewed.

   Many of the entries were replaced with videos in higher resolution, with better metadata. Some entries got subtitles added and carefully aligned to the videos, and in the case of the John Wayne collection, custom thumbnails were to match the old movie posters.

   https://vidcommons.org/c/john_wayne/videos

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 08:06:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sean This is very cool, Sean! Humanity now and in the future thanks you for your hard work and for being a conscientious nerd that cares about all these little details like metadata and subtitles.
     
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   • ilja (ilja@ilja.space)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 08:06:46 UTC ilja

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     @sean This is pretty cool! I saw it took a while, but I didn't know it was that much work you put into it.
   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 08:06:46 UTC Sean Tilley

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     @ilja Hey, thanks! 😁 The downside is that it’s a super old instance, and the support for Object Storage for videos didn’t happen officially until like 4.0. This meant that everything had to be reencoded for HLS instead of WebTorrent, and a bunch of weird quirks needed to be worked through by hand.

     But, it’s a good opportunity to clean stuff up, and it frees up a ton of server space.

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   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 08:06:47 UTC Sean Tilley

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     The final leg of this conversion process will involve the @documentaries account, which has approximately 55 different pieces of media associated with it.

     It’ll probably take a while to get through, but once we’re done with it, our instance’s catalogue will 100% work for anybody that wants to view our stuff. This also will be a greater chance to more aggressively add Public Domain and Creative Commons media!

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     @sean @ilja How does this work in practice, is Object Storage exposed directly to webtorrent as web seeds or is something proxied through the instance?