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I like these types of video websites, but a huge reason they will never beat YouTube is the age. YouTube has a huge abundance of content that spans pretty far back. When you have that much content its kinda hard to beat.
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Facebook is nothing comparing to Google, they have an OS and a browser remember?
But how does Google “harvest attention?”
Does distributed hosting really work for streaming video, especially along "the long tail"?
Peertube should fare just fine with that. It's just important that instance operators consider the broader implications of running an instance:
- you should find an organizational/financial model to still be around in a decade
- you should find like-minded instance operators to seed one another's content across continents, to ease reachability
If those two aspects are taken care of, "long tail" delivery should really not be a problem for Peertube.
If my favourite youtubers started posting exclusively on peer tube I wouldn't mind at all. One has outright stated he suspects he'll be cancelled at some point, and already dual uploads. And I check his instance fairly regularly. To break it down further - it's not much of a deal breaker to go to "coolvideoguy.com" instead of searching "cool video guy" in the youtube search bar.
A big part of what I consume on YouTube is on my TV, thanks to subscriptions to channels. Since there is no Android TV app for Peertube at the moment, the only way I would watch content from a Peertube channel would be on my computer. Which is not how I like consuming this content.
Why don't we just use BitTorrent for videos? Popcorn time works reasonably well and we don't need a social layer, there are already plenty of them. I d like to see everything that i like being seeded with care by its owners
>Why don't we just use BitTorrent for videos? PeerTube uses BitTorrent under the hood.
With libtorrent starting to support Webtorrent, we should "soon" see a new generation of torrent clients who can bridge the gap between those two protocols.
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It does use Webtorrent by default (it can be turned off).
Not that it seems to do much. Every time I have used it I have only been connected to the server peer. I doubt there are many people with an active tab open for a particular video.
There’s no peertube app for my devices —- I’m not going to watch YouTube on my computer
Why do you need an app? All it takes is a webbrowser. Also if you're on Android, i believe Newpipe (FLOSS) supports Peertube sources.
On mobile I'm not the kind "I need an app to access that service", but on TV, where I consume most of my YouTube content, I DO need an app. Because otherwise the UX will be an absolute nightmare.
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Both the videos referenced above worked smoothly for me. I’m on a 30 mbps cable Internet connection.
I guess it depends on the peers. I have 600 down and it was still choppy on the first load.
Downloading that video with wget took me 0.4 seconds.
Connecting to peertube.tv (peertube.tv)|77.168.118.55|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1058937 (1.0M) [video/mp4] Saving to: ‘de5a56e4-036c-4536-b1a6-4ac45b872516-576.mp4’
de5a56e4-036c-4536- 100%[===================>] 1.01M 2.79MB/s in 0.4s
Why don't we just use BitTorrent for videos? Popcorn time works reasonably well and we don't need a social layer, there are already plenty of them. I d like to see everything that i like being seeded with care by its owners
Peertube reuses an established social networking protocol, adding Bittorrent-like P2P video seeding on top (using Webtorrent protocol, not Bittorrent), taking the best of both worlds in a "low(er)-effort" manner.