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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Can we seed peertube videos in standard torrent apps? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml
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I know libtorrent added webtorrent support a while back, how does it work? I tried it in qBittorrent and Transmission, and it downloads from the webseed only

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[–] the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So downloading a video as a torrent will reduce the load on the peertueb instance?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

At first it will increase it until you have the data ;)

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A major limitation I've always noticed is you have to keep the window open to seed it, who's realistically going to do that for any reasonable amount of time?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not supposed to work like that. Imagine a video gets 2 views. Both viewers can mostly get the vid from the server without much being shared. If there ever should be 100s of people watching a video simultaneously, in the time one of them watches the video a typical internet connection can upload the video 1-10 times. That's a huge weight lifted off from the server if many people upload a bunch. So with peertube I guess servers can scale better than they should be able to with their upload bandwidth.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

What I am trying to say is that the sharing only works if there is a sufficient amount of other people wanting to watch the video at this time. That's where the magic should happen.

I guess it would be cool if someone with a large peertube server did have stats which show performance and how much people shared between each other! Does something like this exist?