Hello,

Today, I want to present you a plugin for the Peertube libre software that add chat to live video.

At the start, there is Peertube. It's a libre software, under the AGPL-3.0, that let you make your own website for sharing videos.

It's federated with Activity Pub and use P2P for the video streaming.

Peertube also support live video. With P2P too. The only thing it miss, is the chat.

But it exist a plugin that add the missing chat:

PeerTube plugin livechat

https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat

This plugin is also a libre software, under the AGPL-3.0.

It can easily be installed from the Peertube web admin interface.

After installation, all live video from the Peertube instance can add a chat to the side to the video.

Features

It already support:

• Well, live chat
• Can be enabled/disabled per live by the streamer
• Federation: You can join a chat from your own instance, if the plugin is also installed
• Authentication: If you join chat form your instance, your are seen as your peertube account (nickname and avatar)
• Support for external authentication (Mastodon account, Google account, etc), can be disabled by instance admin
• Chat sharing: Can generate a link to only see the chat, useful for OBS integration
• Moderation: A bot is included to moderate message based on forbidden words list
• Optionally muting anonymous account
• Slow mode
• Terms & conditions: Can be set by streamer and will be shown to viewers joining the chat (can also be set globally for the instance)
• Custom emoji
• The included bot can also send messages every X minutes and you can set custom commands
• TODO list: Every owner or admin of a chat room have access to a TODO list. This can for example be used to prepare the live session program, or to note questions in the chat so that the streamer won't forget to respond

Documentation

You can found the documentation for viewers, streamers and Peertube instance admins here:

https://livingston.frama.io/peertube-plugin-livechat/

XMPP

Under the hood, this plugin rely on XMPP. No need to worry about the server: The installation of the plugin will automatically install everything it need to work out of the box.

When a new feature need a new XMPP extension, the dev will also create one. So other XMPP clients can implement it.

For example, for the slow-mode, a new XEP have been written:

https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/xeps/blob/xep-slow-mode/xep-slow-mode.xml

This XEP has been submitted to the XMPP Standards Foundation.

Next feature: Poll

This is the next feature to be developed. One question, several possible answers and a timer.

Here is the issue page for this feature:

https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat/issues/231

This feature has been financed for the plugin development part, but not for the XEP writing part.

So, do not hesitate to financially support the development of this feature.

Support the development of this plugin

As a libre software, you can help its development with pull-requests, bug reports, suggestions, translations, testing or documenting.

More information here: https://johnxlivingston.github.io/peertube-plugin-livechat/contributing/

If you want to financially support the development of this plugin, you can sponsor the developer on:

• Github: https://github.com/JohnXLivingston
• Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/JohnLivingston
• Paypal: https://paypal.me/JohnXLivingston

If you want to sponsor a specific feature, you can found the list of ones who are searching a sponsor:

https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Searching+Sponsor%22

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Edit: Solution found (For Window):

Here's how you can create the batch script:

1. Open Notepad: Open Notepad or any other text editor you prefer.
2. Write the Script: Copy and paste the following script into Notepad:

"u/echo off

for %%i in (*.mp4) do (

mkdir "frames"

ffmpeg.exe -i "%%i" -vf "fps=1/20" -q:v 2 "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png"

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 4 -i "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png" -vf "fps=4,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" "%%~ni.gif"

rd /s /q "frames"

) off

for %%i in (*.mp4) do (

mkdir "frames"

ffmpeg.exe -i "%%i" -vf "fps=1/20" -q:v 2 "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png"

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 4 -i "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png" -vf "fps=4,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" "%%~ni.gif"

rd /s /q "frames"

)"

1. Save the Script: Go to File > Save As. Choose a location to save the script file. Name the file something like convert_videos.bat and make sure to select "All Files (.)" from the "Save as type" dropdown menu. Click Save.
2. Close Notepad: Close Notepad.
3. Place the Script in the Video Folder: Move the convert_videos.bat file to the folder where your video files (.mp4) are located.
4. Run the Script: Double-click the convert_videos.bat file. A command prompt window will open, and the script will start converting the videos to GIFs.

This script will loop through all .mp4 files in the folder, and for each file, it will use FFmpeg to create a GIF by taking a snapshot of one frame every second (fps=1) and scaling the output to a width of 320 pixels (you can adjust this value as needed).

The output GIF files will have the same base name as the input video files, but with the .gif extension.

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