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PeerTube is a tool for sharing online videos developed by Framasoft, a french non-profit.

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I just watched how PeerTube is intended to work (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 days ago by squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/peertube@lemmy.wtf

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Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.

Here are the stats

Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB

I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.

Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh wow I did not realise peertube was like torrenting almost! That is so cool :)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago

Peer to peer, hence the name. :)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Considering how often people try to retort "BuT WhAt aBoUt tHe bAnDwIdTh cOsTs" whenever it's mentioned as a YouTube alternative, it seems like almost nobody realizes that.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Because if it was hosted the same way lemmy is (with storage of posts across all servers once they federate) it would be a storage and bandwidth nightmare.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IIRC, they used some torrent codebase. It's like a closed tracker.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the blog post for PeerTube v6, it says:

We needed to settle a technical debt : v6 removes support for WebTorrent to focus on HLS (with WebRTC P2P). Both are technical bricks used to get peer-to-peer streaming in web browsers, but HLS is more fitted to what we are doing (and plan to do) with PeerTube

So, I guess, they use a more custom implementation now...

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

TIL, thanks!