Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

PeerTube v6

framablog.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 203 posts

Re: PeerTube v6

#81

Post by booteille »

hutzlibu wrote: post #70
jelv wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"WebTorrent is a wonderful library that allowed PeerTube to be created five years ago. But due to many limitations of the library we decided to implement and default to another P2P protocol used in coordination with HLS. This new HLS player works very well, and does not have all the limitations of the WebTorrent player. It also allowed us to implement live streaming in PeerTube." https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTub…

Thanks, now I am really curious to try that out and see how it works under the hood. What I need, would also be the option to ask users first, if they want to upload as well. People on a mobile connection should be able to opt out. (Quick search did not reveal this).

You can find this option in "My Settings", in the left menu.

"Help share videos being played"

Re: PeerTube v6

#83

Post by The_Colonel »

MiguelX413 wrote: post #16
Nextgrid wrote: post #5

Still has the same problem as all these alternative social media networks and why they're not taking off: on one hand you've got YouTube/etc which works and has appealing content front-and-centre, and on the other you have technobabble like "federation" and "instances" while the actual content (if there is even any!) is relegated into some dark corner. YouTube (and other mainstream providers) solves user stories. The…

Who says Peertube needs to take off to be good? I like, prefer, and use the fediverse in its current state personally.

It's frustrating how people only take the capitalist / startup founder point of view when evaluating open source. It's like people can't grasp the idea that somebody could be pursuing a project without having the greatest possible user base / profit as their primary goal.

Re: PeerTube v6

#84

Post by errhead »

sschueller wrote: post #4

A bit of topic. I created a peertube client[1] for android a few years ago. I love peertube and I really believe in the project however the effort I have put into the client and the rewrite which I almost finished using jetpack/mvvm structure just doesn't seem to be worth it. I feel bad for abandoning it but I think I may have too. [1] https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android

Sad to hear, but totally understandable. I'm sure the official app will need lots of contributors when it comes out next year.

Re: PeerTube v6

#85

Post by sertbdfgbnfgsd »

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #17

This instance has been upgraded to 6.0.0-rc.2 if you want to give it a try: https://framatube.org/videos/local (see About: https://framatube.org/about/instance ) Couldn't find one with stable v6.

Oh I love that RSS is not an obscure feature like in YT.

Re: PeerTube v6

#86

Post by errhead »

hutzlibu wrote: post #18
pzmarzly wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very confusing to me too. WebTorrents are just torrents over WebRTC Data stream, I guess by "P2P HLS" they mean sending HLS over either WebRTC Data or Video stream?

But if you stream from the server, it still would still not be p2p. SO either they implemented their own custom p2p solution, where the peers stream HLS to other peers, or they abandoned p2p. edit: the main FAQ on the website still clearly says, it is p2p. But now I am curious if they really implemented their own p2p solution, or if this is outdated. https://joinpeertube.org/en_US#what-are-the-main-advantages-...

This is what they use https://github.com/chocobozzz/p2p-media-loader forked from novage a while back. Nice explanation with diagrams at the link.

It has worked surprisingly well in my testing during livestreams when you can count on multiple simultaneous viewers.

Re: PeerTube v6

#87

Post by KingOfCoders »

jasode wrote: post #71
jraph wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't easy to handle playing videos just with a CDN. You have to handle: - the different formats because browsers support different stuff - different qualities because you have to respect bandwidth visitors' bandwidth - dynamic / adaptative quality - CSP stuff - nice UI for the video etc. At this point, PeerTube handles all this for you and it's easy to setup.

>It isn't easy to handle playing videos just with a CDN. You have to handle: [... various video delivery tasks...] I think gp's "BunnyCDN" was shorthand for the video-as-a-service Bunny Stream : https://bunny.net/stream/ That "turnkey" managed service from Bunny would be more feature-complete for businesses than self-hosting PeerTube.

+1 I should have made that clearer, thank you for filling in my gaps.

Re: PeerTube v6

#88

Post by sertbdfgbnfgsd »

sschueller wrote: post #30
sertbdfgbnfgsd wrote: post #20

Is it possible to see someone hosting this, as an example?

My test server you can reach at https://troll.tv/ . It has very limited federation as I need the content to pass the play store when I release an update to the android client.

I'm listened briefly to some hard heavy metal.

Where is this physically hosted?

Re: PeerTube v6

#89

Post by toastercat »

The_Colonel wrote: post #83
MiguelX413 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says Peertube needs to take off to be good? I like, prefer, and use the fediverse in its current state personally.

It's frustrating how people only take the capitalist / startup founder point of view when evaluating open source. It's like people can't grasp the idea that somebody could be pursuing a project without having the greatest possible user base / profit as their primary goal.

You hit the nail on the head. Hacker News ironically tends to be pretty hostile towards open-source.

Offering free and open alternatives is often met with the criticism of "this will never take off and it's not really an alternative because it doesn't do what the multi-billion dollar corporate competitor does to a tee."

Re: PeerTube v6

#90

Post by sschueller »

sertbdfgbnfgsd wrote: post #88
sschueller wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My test server you can reach at https://troll.tv/ . It has very limited federation as I need the content to pass the play store when I release an update to the android client.

I'm listened briefly to some hard heavy metal. Where is this physically hosted?

Switzerland, exoscale
Post reply on HN