Video plan preview, launching Monday: manton.org

@heyloura Thanks!

@manton for sure will be using this, been wanting to do more video things in the future.

Love the peertube idea!

@manton I will give it a try. Wanted to play around with some live videos. For 20$/month I don’t have enough video stuff going on, though I would have opted into something additional like 5$ for 5 minutes for like any tier, for everyone that wants to do a bit more. Nevertheless, I hope the launch goes well ✌️

@manton I’m curious, will this subsume all current video uploading features? I’ve built shortcuts and web flows that reduce resolution to get videos under the current size limit, including an Instagram Crossposter with Make.com. But most of my videos to Instagram are 90 seconds long — one of their presets. Will those videos fail to upload? I can’t say I fancy paying double to retain the same functionality.

@jarrod Good question. No, this is additive and does not currently change the old workflows. I had to make API changes to support uploading larger video files, so I tried to keep the old API the same. Basically there is new processing that has to happen that shouldn’t run if you have scripts that upload to the Micropub endpoint. If you run into problems, let me know and I will reevaluate how it works.

@manton Ah, very good. I had a feeling you’d have a solution. 🙂 Thanks, and good luck with the launch!

@manton I feel like I’d chosen M.b at just the right time. A year ago it was already fantastic, but the improvements and refinements have been steady and logical ever since. And we all know how involved @Manton has been. No other hosting experience I’ve ever had comes close.

@manton i’m so here for this, and $20 sounds super reasonable to me, it’s going to be an awesome 2026!

@tylerknowsnothing Thank you.

@settee Thanks! I’m excited about 2026 too.

@manton trying to work out why in firefox nightly i get the message no video with supported format and MIME type found, i thought it was a hls issue so installed a plugin called fast stream and it works. wonder if it was something i was doing because it works fine on firefox on mobile.

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@settee We have a Micro.blog plug-in called “Video streaming” that is needed for Firefox and Chrome video. It should be installed automatically. Can you check if it’s on your blog under Plug-ins? If it is, there may be a theme issue that is preventing it from loading.

@manton yeah that’s what i’m trying to resolve, i don’t think it’s a dom rewrite (with my own code) digging further, sent email, will add that plugin, thank you!

@settee I see that the plug-in is loaded: https://sett.ee/js/studio.js. But the .js file is not being referenced in your theme template. If you’ve edited the theme, you should be able to edit the template again to add a script tag to point to that .js file.

@manton right on. thanks for the pointers!

@settee There’s also this JavaScript that is included by the plug-in: cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.j…