The wording may sound a little clunky but the development done so far shows this projet can do (and is already doing) a lot of good - while being still in beta. Digging a bit more on the project you can see the video streaming in P2P is not the only thing that could be game-changing. There’s a whole consideration for technologies that could bulid a different web. ActivityPub is maybe the most famous, but there could also be the integration with DBpedia for semantic tagging, the development of retribution protocols with other federated platforms, or simply the improvement of the overall commenting experience while still federating it. This work helps not only the PeerTube network grow, but the federated networks as a whole too.
P2P in the browser is done via WebTorrent, which uses WebRTC connections as transport channels to other browsers watching the video. It then uses the BitTorrent protocol for the actual data transfer.
“Why broadcast PeerTube videos through peer-to-peer?”
Peer-to-peer broadcasting allows, thanks to the WebRTC protocol, that Internet users who watch the same video at the same time exchange bits of files, which relieves the server.
PeerTube is a very interesting project, though personally I would love some kind of youtube interface so I can watch youtube on PeerTube and maybe live streaming before I’d consider switching away from youtube itself entirely.
You mean like with HookTube? Yeah that’s something I’ve been meaning to implement. It only has a real interest with playlists support and user subscriptions, which is not the case right now. So maybe in the near future!
Probably a bit like that (though it looks like HookTube doesn’t support 1080p).
But being able to bring Youtube atleast one-sided into the fediverse could convince a lot of people to switch. It’s what I consider a necessary feature for a lot of federated platforms, atleast in the initial phases.
You’d be suprised what users tell us are “necessary features” ;)
While this one should not be part of the core per se, I do see the interest of this one. Decentralizing the content also means migrating the habits.
Believe it or not, it should either land as a plugin (much later since there is no plugin system yet) or as a core feature, depending how much free time I can free in the next months. Either way that’s not a priority, as there is much to build apart from that.
Yeah, I totally understand if it’s not a priority (and I know what users sometimes consider ‘necessary’) so I try to keep my list of necessary things short and reasonable.
The wording may sound a little clunky but the development done so far shows this projet can do (and is already doing) a lot of good - while being still in beta. Digging a bit more on the project you can see the video streaming in P2P is not the only thing that could be game-changing. There’s a whole consideration for technologies that could bulid a different web. ActivityPub is maybe the most famous, but there could also be the integration with DBpedia for semantic tagging, the development of retribution protocols with other federated platforms, or simply the improvement of the overall commenting experience while still federating it. This work helps not only the PeerTube network grow, but the federated networks as a whole too.
I wonder why they chose DBpedia over Wikidata
The comment which started it is here: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/352#issuecomment-377204232 - maybe I misunderstood something.
How does one do P2P on a web browser? Do you open WebRTC connections with other Peertube users?
P2P in the browser is done via WebTorrent, which uses WebRTC connections as transport channels to other browsers watching the video. It then uses the BitTorrent protocol for the actual data transfer.
They mention the use of WebRTC on their FAQ: https://joinpeertube.org/en/faq/
What question is it under?
“Why broadcast PeerTube videos through peer-to-peer?”
Peer-to-peer broadcasting allows, thanks to the WebRTC protocol, that Internet users who watch the same video at the same time exchange bits of files, which relieves the server.PeerTube is a very interesting project, though personally I would love some kind of youtube interface so I can watch youtube on PeerTube and maybe live streaming before I’d consider switching away from youtube itself entirely.
Video import from youtube is one of their stretch goals, if I understand you correctly.
You mean like with HookTube? Yeah that’s something I’ve been meaning to implement. It only has a real interest with playlists support and user subscriptions, which is not the case right now. So maybe in the near future!
Probably a bit like that (though it looks like HookTube doesn’t support 1080p).
But being able to bring Youtube atleast one-sided into the fediverse could convince a lot of people to switch. It’s what I consider a necessary feature for a lot of federated platforms, atleast in the initial phases.
You’d be suprised what users tell us are “necessary features” ;)
While this one should not be part of the core per se, I do see the interest of this one. Decentralizing the content also means migrating the habits. Believe it or not, it should either land as a plugin (much later since there is no plugin system yet) or as a core feature, depending how much free time I can free in the next months. Either way that’s not a priority, as there is much to build apart from that.
Yeah, I totally understand if it’s not a priority (and I know what users sometimes consider ‘necessary’) so I try to keep my list of necessary things short and reasonable.
Good luck with the platform then :)
Thanks :)