Background videos from Invidious instances (Privacy, Performance)

Feature Requests / Improvements
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Hi all,

“they” say that, generally speaking, under GDPR embedding third party content is to be avoided, unless it is absolutely necessary to operate the business. To determine that, a legitimate interest assessment is to be made. Embedding a video for “mere aesthetics” is hardly justifyable though, which is why many EU based designers are resorting to self-hosting their videos, with big performance impacts…

So, I’ve been thinking about using a proxy for YouTube Videos. I’ve come across something called Invidious (https://invidious.io). It works really well in relaying the (any) video from youtube, however the Bricks Builder doesn’t seem to be able to pull the video from the link of the Invidous instance.

Do you think it’s possible to have the dev team take a look at that? It certainly would solve many performance and privacy issues for a lot of people.

I hope I was able to explain that even remotely comprehensible :smiley:

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as long as you use external resources you have to add it to the privacy policy. no escape from that.

I would highly recommend you to learn handbreak

here this is my typical setting for compressing videos without losing quality.
I use this method to make very small video sizes under 5mb or under 10mb and host it on site.

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nvenc works best when you have nvidia if you don’t have it normal h264 or x264 would work too.

if the video will be small on the page/layout you can even go for 40 it will make the size very small but will effect quality a bit. but in small video it will not be visible.
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I understand but I can host Invidious on my own server, so there’s no third party involved (ie no privacy impact whatsoever). It would act as a self-hosted proxy.

I use handbrake now too, it’s the best tool for downsizing videos indeed.

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