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How about peer-to-peer delivery like with PeerTube? It introduces a 30s-1m delay, which may not be acceptable for some streamers, but in exchange the users watc
by ryukafalz 4y ago
How about peer-to-peer delivery like with PeerTube? It introduces a 30s-1m delay, which may not be acceptable for some streamers, but in exchange the users watching also participate in distribution.
- codemonkey-zeta 4y agoOn the other hand, it may be a feature for some streamers: "Our service includes built-in stream-sniper protection by default!"
- vorpalhex 4y agoI think a cheap streaming solution using bittorrent would be awesome. You would still need a beefy seed host but otherwise I'd love to something like that exist. For a lot of cases, 60s of latency is fine.
- idiotsecant 4y agoFor streaming I think a big part of the experience is 'chat' all seeing what each other are commenting on the thing that is happening right now, and the streamer's interaction with chat. Throw in a 30-60s delay that is variable depending on user and you destroy that element.
- vorpalhex 4y agoIt just depends. Obviously "Twitch plays X" sort of content where there is a lot of audience participation isn't great with that much delay, but there are a lot of streamers where chat is more reactive than suggestive and a delay there just doesn't matter much. You may want to add in an artificial delay to chat though so it's synchronized to the video.
- ryukafalz 4y agoThis does exist, by the way: https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoA lot of the fun from live streaming is directly interacting with the streamer in chat. 30s-1m variable (I presume this is HLS torrenting?) latency would dash all the fun.