This will serve as a great test for video hosting from my platform. It's by far the easiest way to test serving some big data. This one minute 4K clip from my drone weighs in at over 900MB. I have re-encoded it with Handbrake, but the output is still HEVC, so it may be difficult to load and play smoothly on lower-end devices. Even though it may be nice to use the original file to stress test various things, the sheer absurdity of delivering a 100Mbit video over the web isn't lost on me, so, I present to you a ~40 Mbit video instead. That's still pretty hefty, all things considered. It's not as sharp as the original, but still looks really nice. I have next to no intuition about HEVC encoding parameters so I had to encode this one a few times to get a "reasonable" compression level (it's not...) out of it. It is slow going with the transcoding proceeding at 4fps. This particular one uses the 10 bit preset x265 encoder with constant quality RF 26.

This is one shot that made me glad I got this drone. And I hope to be able to capture something else half as beautiful again before I retire it... It's a DJI Mini 3 Pro.

I am going for something minimalistic as usual here to explore self hosting content... Here I'm simply dropping a video tag in HTML in this markdown post; Marked has no built-in support for videos.