FloatPlane Related

[Nano Adam]

If I want to create a video platform similar to FloatPlane or YouTube but mostly like FloatPlane, what will I need to know if I want to do it from scratch. 

 

What languages would I need to know? 

 

Thanks

[lieder1987]

that is a very broad question...

[Enderman]

I don't think you understand how complex it is to set up a video streaming platform.

Do you have a degree in computer programming or computer engineering?

You could start with that, then maybe work on a masters/phd.

[Nano Adam]

I understand CDN's and setting up of Remote Servers and know most of Linux. I just created a mini platform where I used a remote server to run it. But the downside was that it didn't operate.

 

I do not have a degree of any sort and my knowledge comes from my Computer Science course and Udemy and YouTube. 

 

Thanks !

[Meic]

These services have a long list of components, for example:

• The websites front end (UI)
• Media delivery stack (CDN etc.)
• Media ingestion and transcoding
• user management (both viewers and creators/admins)
• payment processes
• suggestion algorithms

and I'm sure much much more.

 

Some of these need very different skill sets. For web front end you might want to look at HTML, CSS & JS where as for media transcoding you might be looking at C++/Rust libraries.

 

Are there one or two of these components that you are most interested in starting with? If you can narrow down what you are looking to learn first, we can hopefully be of more help.

[myselfolli]

You could start simple and learn HTML, JS and CSS, HTML has a decent-ish media player that you could use to play video files. For user management, I'd recommend setting up a database (probably MySQL, since it's free) and learning SQL and PHP to interact with it.

 

It really depends on how far you want to go with things

[Blade of Grass]

On 4/21/2019 at 10:08 PM, Enderman said:

I don't think you understand how complex it is to set up a video streaming platform.

Do you have a degree in computer programming or computer engineering?

You could start with that, then maybe work on a masters/phd.

Really don’t need a masters or PhD

[Enderman]

10 minutes ago, Blade of Grass said:

Really don’t need a masters or PhD

If he wants to do it on his own without hiring a team of people that have decades of experience, he should definitely get at least a masters.

I've seen what compsci students graduate university with, and it's not nearly enough to build a streaming platform from scratch.

Hell, even the team at floatplane is not doing it from scratch, simply because of how ridiculously complicated it can get.

[klanecko]

Hi, i use floatplane for about 1 month, it is very educational and i like your videos. Keep on doing your great work. I have some issues. The biggest for me is that when i start viewing the video on wifi it works fine, but if in the middle of the video change to mobile data, the video stops. Then i have to refresh the page and the video starts from start. the scrooling on the phone is quite bad ,specialy if you have big fingers-(I miss double tap for forrward and rewind). Keep doing videos like this. 

 

Good day