Hyper 8 Video System (lgm2025)

[Hyper 8](https://simonrepp.com/hyper8) is a static site generator for video, developed since 2023 and first released in 2024. It uses a file-based, modular building block system for authoring video sites ranging from single videos, to playlists, to video collections of arbitrary hierarchical complexity. Sites can be created and edited using Hyper 8's graphical user interface, but also using nothing more than a terminal, file explorer and text editor (or both). Due to their static nature, Hyper 8 sites are inherently fast, maintenance-free, long-term archivable (also working offline without a server, directly off disk) and compatible with pretty much every webhost (thereby easy to publish and move). In this talk I want to take you on a whirlwind tour around the project: Who is this for? What was the motivation? How does this relate to PeerTube? What is being developed at the moment? Where is it going in the future? What are the challenges, learnings, anecdotes so far? And so on. And of course also: Your questions! ## Links * [Hyper 8 Video System](https://simonrepp.com/hyper8) Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/lgm25-upstream-2025/talk/1785153121/