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Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by diggan » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

progval wrote: post #4

jstanley wrote: post #3

It would have been cooler for this to use IPFS instead of its own P2P content distribution. Still cool though.

IPFS does not work in the browser yet.

It surely does, take a look at js-ipfs for full in-browser node (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs) and also js-ipfs-api for communicating with existing go-ipfs/js-ipfs nodes (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api)

Disclaimer: I work at Protocol Labs on IPFS

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by progval » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #5

progval wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPFS does not work in the browser yet.

D.tube works just fine: https://d.tube/

D.tube makes the browser download from a gateway (ipfs.io) using HTTP.

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 5:13 PM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #3

It would have been cooler for this to use IPFS instead of its own P2P content distribution. Still cool though.

It uses WebTorrent, which isn't some in-house PeerTube tech.

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by eitland » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #11

progval wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPFS does not work in the browser yet.

It surely does, take a look at js-ipfs for full in-browser node ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs ) and also js-ipfs-api for communicating with existing go-ipfs/js-ipfs nodes ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api ) Disclaimer: I work at Protocol Labs on IPFS

Does this mean you can actually connect to the real ipfs network from a browser without connecting to a gateway like ipfs.io?

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by kodablah » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

coolspot wrote: post #2

Perhaps also needs onion routing to protect users from liabilities.

It would be nice if one of the ICE options in WebRTC was Tor. Note also that Tor is not the fastest wrt to streaming data.

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by deevolution » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

awesome, except it doesn't look like there are any incentives to running a server. unless i missed something?

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by deevolution » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #5

progval wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPFS does not work in the browser yet.

D.tube works just fine: https://d.tube/

also, i believe d.tube uses cryptocurrencies to incentivize participation.

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by aaomidi » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

progval wrote: post #12

mtgx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

D.tube works just fine: https://d.tube/

D.tube makes the browser download from a gateway (ipfs.io) using HTTP.

You can set it to connect to your own gateway.

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by dranoel0226 » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

eitland wrote: post #14

diggan wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It surely does, take a look at js-ipfs for full in-browser node ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs ) and also js-ipfs-api for communicating with existing go-ipfs/js-ipfs nodes ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api ) Disclaimer: I work at Protocol Labs on IPFS

Does this mean you can actually connect to the real ipfs network from a browser without connecting to a gateway like ipfs.io?

that, you cannot

Re: PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

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Post by that_guy1 » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 6:18 PM UTC

I think for this to be successful you need to encourage users to server the videos. There are a couple things that might help this:

- Popularity could be based not only on views, but how many total minutes of the video were shared by other people.

- When someone watches a video, they have to keep hosting it until they share as much as they've watched it (so if they watched 10 minutes, they have to share it until they've distributed 10 minutes worth of the video to other people.