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One project comes to my mind: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube it uses web-torrent so you safe allot of bandwidth

by nix23 6y ago

One project comes to my mind: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube it uses web-torrent so you safe allot of bandwidth.

LockAndLol 6y ago
I was fully expecting this to be a video about peertube too. Kind of surprised it wasn't.
ekianjo 6y ago
It's not all rosy though, most instances strictly limit the amount you can upload, and also police the type of content. (I use peertube).
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  If you're at the point of spinning up your own CDN and such, it doesn't seem like it'd be too rough to run your own peertube instance if you have enough of a fan base...
chrismorgan 6y ago
Does anyone have a source for the claim that it saves a lot of bandwidth, actual figures? The only PeerTube videos I’ve ever looked at are saving absolutely nothing, because it’s only the original server seeding it. Admittedly they haven’t been hot-off-the-press videos that are getting a large number of views immediately, which is the main time when you may have more seeders, as I understand it.
- ficklepickle 6y ago
  You are absolutely right about the lack of seeds. Webtorrent was just added to libtorrent, so hopefully it will be coming to standard torrent clients soon. I'm hoping this will lead to more seeders and wider adoption of webtorrent. There is also the problem of seeding from battery-powered mobile devices being impractical. Hopefully that can be worked around somehow.
- ravenstine 6y ago
  It's probably less about having peers seed videos all the time but buffering bandwidth spikes. Let's say a video gets posted and gets a million views in the first day. That's a lot of load on a server. But if thousands of peers can serve each other the chunks, then the server isn't responsible for all of them. So WebTorrent can provide a level of scalability without greater hardware. Just doesn't mean that most of the videos are going to be served by peers.
jedimastert 6y ago
Don't a lot of networks block torrent traffic? I'm thinking about educational or work networks where one might watch a tutorial
- ficklepickle 6y ago
  Not webtorrent though. It's over webRTC, not UDP like most torrent traffic.

by nix23 6y ago

One project comes to my mind: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube it uses web-torrent so you safe allot of bandwidth.

LockAndLol 6y ago

I was fully expecting this to be a video about peertube too. Kind of surprised it wasn't.

ekianjo 6y ago

It's not all rosy though, most instances strictly limit the amount you can upload, and also police the type of content. (I use peertube).

vorpalhex 6y ago
If you're at the point of spinning up your own CDN and such, it doesn't seem like it'd be too rough to run your own peertube instance if you have enough of a fan base...

chrismorgan 6y ago

Does anyone have a source for the claim that it saves a lot of bandwidth, actual figures? The only PeerTube videos I’ve ever looked at are saving absolutely nothing, because it’s only the original server seeding it. Admittedly they haven’t been hot-off-the-press videos that are getting a large number of views immediately, which is the main time when you may have more seeders, as I understand it.

ficklepickle 6y ago
You are absolutely right about the lack of seeds. Webtorrent was just added to libtorrent, so hopefully it will be coming to standard torrent clients soon. I'm hoping this will lead to more seeders and wider adoption of webtorrent. There is also the problem of seeding from battery-powered mobile devices being impractical. Hopefully that can be worked around somehow.
ravenstine 6y ago
It's probably less about having peers seed videos all the time but buffering bandwidth spikes. Let's say a video gets posted and gets a million views in the first day. That's a lot of load on a server. But if thousands of peers can serve each other the chunks, then the server isn't responsible for all of them. So WebTorrent can provide a level of scalability without greater hardware. Just doesn't mean that most of the videos are going to be served by peers.

jedimastert 6y ago

Don't a lot of networks block torrent traffic? I'm thinking about educational or work networks where one might watch a tutorial

ficklepickle 6y ago
Not webtorrent though. It's over webRTC, not UDP like most torrent traffic.