We recommend you to not use the <x id="START_TAG_STRONG" ctype="x-strong" equiv-text="<strong>"/>root<x id="CLOSE_TAG_STRONG" ctype="x-strong" equiv-text="</strong>"/> user to publish your videos, since it's the super-admin account of your instance. <x id="LINE_BREAK" ctype="lb" equiv-text="<br/>"/> Instead, <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a>"/>create a dedicated account<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a>"/> to upload your videos.
However, you may want to read <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-configuration?id=transcoding">"/>our guidelines<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a>"/> before tweaking the following values.
Process uploaded videos so that they are in a streamable form that any device can play. Though costly in resources, this is a critical part of PeerTube, so tread carefully.
Use <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a routerLink="/admin/system/runners/runners-list">"/>remote runners<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a>"/> to process VOD transcoding. Remote runners has to register on your instance first.