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There's PeerTube software, which is self hosting, and people's browsers use in-browser bittorrent to share video amoung people who are watching the video. Blen
by rmc 8y ago
There's PeerTube software, which is self hosting, and people's browsers use in-browser bittorrent to share video amoung people who are watching the video.
Blender have set one up: https://video.blender.org/ https://video.blender.org/
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoHow well does that work when a video isn't very popular though? The value of a thing like youtube is that anybody can put a video on there and it will be available for anybody else to play, instantly, for the foreseeable future.
- raziel2p 8y agoI imagine the non-popular videos are sent directly from central servers. By offloading the most popular spikes to P2P maybe they're able to reduce costs enough to make it worth it.
- hesselink 8y agoInteresting, it doesn't seem to work here because my employer's VPN blocks the torrents.
- Endy 8y agoTo add to that, there's also the fact that any user of any ISP that throttles/blocks torrent traffic is probably going to have the same experience. Plus the fact that there's at least two people I know whose ISPs actually cut users' down speed by double of any up speed (in order to "passively" cut down torrenting without actually restricting it). So PeerTube becomes less a YouTube replacement and more an interesting implementation of streaming video via Bittorrent (which some clients already support).