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Can we seed peertube videos in standard torrent apps? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 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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[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

that's the issue, i can't tell if it's uploading to peertube users, the Blender short video thing I watched has 7 peers but Tranmission showed 0 other than the webseed, qbittorrent showed 3 seeds but didn't download from then

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I imagine the webseed would take priority in most BitTorrent implementations. I'll seed some videos, and update this comment in a few days with how much they've been uploaded, if any.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

I think it's time I updated this. None of my Peertube torrents ever uploaded anything. @downdaemon@lemmy.ml

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Try sharing with WebTorrent.

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

i know that works, but libtorrent, that most major apps use, is supposed to support it now too

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

The case is: I read time ago that some torrent clients only whitelist certain other torrent clients in the network to exchange.

I didn't remember if I even read the reasons but could be that libtorrent is not inside that and WebTorrent is one of the allowed instead.