Video pushed into the anarchive — first of all the **Telegram video note**: the small round clip, a minute or less, that phones make effortlessly. We archive those. The upload twin of the yt-dlp capture channels in Media Plan, and the visual half of Upload Media.
## Video Notes
A video note is video pre-sized for this pipeline: sixty seconds or less, well under the Bot API's 20 MB bot-download limit. Sent to either bot — Max's hosted bot or the Pi5's own — it flows the way audio does: soundtrack transcribed, summarised, paged, archived. The first video use case is the Weekly Transmission — a visual diary for the weekly finsburypark.tv show, arriving as notes and clips.
## Bigger Files
Beyond notes and clips, Telegram's cloud Bot API refuses to hand a bot any file over **20 MB**. When full-size footage matters, three ways past it:
- **Clips stay small.** Under 20 MB the Telegram door works as-is — the Fair Use Clip discipline produces exactly these. - **A local Bot API server** on the Pi5 lifts the limit to 2 GB. One more resident service, but the phone-to-wiki gesture then covers real footage. - **The POST door.** Full-size files go over the public API of Upload Media Phase C — multipart upload, bearer token, no Telegram in the path.
## The Pipeline
1. **Receive** — file plus intent, into the inbox on the X9 2. **Probe and transcode** — the Video FFmpeg Skill recipe: a 420px web copy for the page, remux-only when the source is already web-native 3. **Transcribe** — extract the audio track, whisper it, same as Uploading Audio 4. **Page** — summary, chapters where the transcript supports them, an HTML5 video item, originals and sidecars in `# Assets` 5. **Route and pin** — private by default; public uploads get CID-named files per the Filename Convention and join the pinset per Anarchive Pinning
## Existing Channels
Two video sources already flow without an upload door: Fathom meeting recordings arrive by share-token URL — see Fathom and Screencasts — and YouTube material comes through the YouTube Archive Skill. The upload door is for everything that never touched a platform: our own cameras and screens. Third-party material that arrives by upload keeps the Fair Use Clip discipline.
## See - Upload Media — doors, ingress, authentication - Weekly Transmission — the first video use case - Uploading Audio — the lighter sibling, and the shared transcription tail - Video FFmpeg Skill and Filename Convention — transcode recipe and CID naming - Anarchive Media Plan — the Outpost that does this work
# Assets
uploading-video