FOSDEM: PeerTube as a searchability and discoverability layer for externally hosted video?

Describe the problem to be solved

FOSDEM is looking for a way to expose its video archive on PeerTube.

• https://fosdem.org has a 3.4Tb video archive.

• The videos themselves are conservatively encoded, properly indexed 720p and 1080p h264/aac encoded mp4 files.

• The metadata is pretalx xml with video fields.

• Requests to the video archive are round-robined across quite a few static mirrors.

• We would like to expose this archive to the federation of PeerTube instances.

• Ideally, PeerTube instances following the FOSDEM ActivityPub source would only have to sync/import metadata (neglegible quantity of data), but no actual video data (3.4 Tb).

• The actual video could stay served as conservatively encoded single file h264/aac mp4 containers. No duplication of data required, neither on FOSDEM infra, mirrors or following PeerTube servers.

• The FOSDEM side of my dreams could be limited to something minimal and easily maintainable: existing xml/rssjson/a minimal custom activitypub server plus the existing single mp4 files per FOSDEM talk.

Do you see any possibilities to achieve something like this within PeerTube's vision/roadmap?

See also my amateurish fumbling around:

• https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/issues/79
• https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/tree/master/software/activitypub

Describe the solution you would like

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