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What's the utility of this? The site is down and github doesn't really explain why you would do this.
by fabricexpert 8y ago
What's the utility of this? The site is down and github doesn't really explain why you would do this.
- toyg 8y agoIPFS is a distributed p2p filesystem. The idea, I believe, is that you can put your big media files on it, to share bandwidth and (iiuc) reduce censorship risks; but it's better to do it with a stream-friendly codec, so this site will turn your file into that first.
- solarkraft 8y agoThe acronym is for Inter-Planetary File System, with the main idea being getting a file from the closest person who already has it, so you don't have to request it from a central server that is potentially very far away. The main benefit on earth, as far as I understand, is reducing bandwidth required of a single person to share media by distributing hosting, similarly to torrents.
- timdaub 8y agoI just came back from a run and the website was down. Sorry. It's up again. Utility: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/browser-video-streaming https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/browser...
- joshpearson 8y agoAnyone know how js-ipfs is able to load files without it showing up on the chrome dev tools' network tab?
- humblebee 8y agoAll the data comes over the websocket connections. If you click on any of the 'pending' connections, you can inspect the individual frames.