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I like the idea of PeerTube, but I have a question: How well does the p2p offloading of viral videos work in practice? How is the average user experience? Do
by yuri91 5y ago
I like the idea of PeerTube, but I have a question:
How well does the p2p offloading of viral videos work in practice?
How is the average user experience? Do you get a lot of buffering pauses, or is it seamless as if it was Youtube? Assuming a medium-sized server hosting the content.
- devoutsalsa 5y agoMy experience to date has been the buffering I experience while watching a video kills the experience.
- booteille 5y agoActually, the experience is really fluid for most people. There can be some edgecases where we have users reporting huge bufferings but that's rare and hard to diagnostic since often bound to the client. Before the V3, we tried the live with more than 150people watching at the same time with some friends. 1/5 of the bandwidth was served by the server, P2P handled the rest. Since then, things continued to improve and the goal of Framasoft (from which I am external, so ask directly to Framasoft if you have specific question) is to provide the most stable experience with PeerTube. You can find out our feedback (in french, though), on Framasoft forums: https://framacolibri.org/t/fonctionnalite-live-retour-dutilisation/10070 https://framacolibri.org/t/fonctionnalite-live-retour-dutili...
- DoItToMe81 5y agoThe most concurrent views I've seen on my server was about forty one, including myself. It was seamless, however the video was only around 280 megabytes and there was only one quality setting for it. I don't imagine it being the case for HD videos where users are viewing in disparate qualities.