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.
Yes! Click on the download button under the video, select your desired resolution, click advaced, and you will have the option to download a .torrent file.
You can also right click on the video player and use the option to copy the video magnet link, but for some reason, when I tried this in the past, I never got any peers.
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
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.
I think it's time I updated this. None of my Peertube torrents ever uploaded anything. @downdaemon@lemmy.ml
Try sharing with WebTorrent.
i know that works, but libtorrent, that most major apps use, is supposed to support it now too
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.
Could copyright sharks watch those repositories and issue copyright FUD?
Sure, but the vast majority of Peertube videos are under open licenses like Creative Commons, and I'm pretty sure you need to agree to having your video be torrented in the Peertube TOS when you upload. Basically, most videos made for Peertube is specifically meant by the creator to be shared in this way.
Of course, this wouldn't apply to if someone uploaded a pirated movie or show, but seeing how regular torrents for those are everywhere, I doubt they're having much luck taking them down. Think at best they'd be able to DMCA the home Peertube instance and get the main copy and listing taken down.
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?
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.
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?
So downloading a video as a torrent will reduce the load on the peertueb instance?
At first it will increase it until you have the data ;)