PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !
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It's #givingtuesday, so we're giving you PeerTube v6 today! PeerTube is the software we develop for creators, media, institutions, educators... to manage their own video platform, as an alternative to YouTube and Twitch. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking...
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Congrats! That’s really great. Password-protected videos have been a top requested feature for a while! The storyboard will definitely improve scrubbing experience, and chapters the viewing experience.
    Big release!

    My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance. The idea is on their page https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/posts/26/allow-third-parties-to-contribute-bandwidth but for some reason, it’s not important to them. I have multiple VPSes each with a few GBs and unlimited bandwidth that I’d happily share, but can’t.

    What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:

    We needed to settle a technical debt : v6 removes support for WebTorrent to focus on HLS (with WebRTC P2P). Both are technical bricks used to get peer-to-peer streaming in web browsers, but HLS is more fitted to what we are doing (and plan to do) with PeerTube

    I wouldn’t want to be a peertube instance admin…

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance.

      Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.

      Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.

      A much bigger issue is storage.

      What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:

      Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience. HLS also support P2P.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

        Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube.

        Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.