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> At the point I'm pretty uncertain if a p2p web browser video app can exist and be usable enough to have people actually want to use it. People really need to
by treyd 3y ago
> At the point I'm pretty uncertain if a p2p web browser video app can exist and be usable enough to have people actually want to use it.
People really need to give up on the idea that the browser is a good foundation for robust p2p protocols. There's too many restrictions and the way users conventionally interact with web pages means that running instances of the client tend to be very ephemeral, even if you design it as an SPA. WebRTC kinda works as a transport but it's still a misapplication of the technology.
What PeerTube should do now is have some kind of opt-in peering between instances to mirror each others videos and provide secondary sources to share the load, and then later build some kind of desktop client for user mirroring of content.
- corobo 3y ago> What PeerTube should do now is have some kind of opt-in peering between instances to mirror each others videos and provide secondary sources to share the load They've had this bit for a while: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#instances-redundancy https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#inst...
- treyd 3y agoOh that's fantastic! I hope this is supported on the new HLS-only streaming system.
- errhead 3y agoHLS has been the default system for years, and yes, it works perfectly.
- corobo 3y agoAye! The way I used it when tinkering with Peertube (not making the content to make it worth keeping things going yet) was to set up secondary Peertube servers dedicated to this function to spread the load across multiple servers rather than use the p2p side of things - I wasn't sure of the GDPR implications of p2p It worked really well at least at the small scale I was testing with :)