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My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance.
Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.
Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.
A much bigger issue is storage.
What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:
Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience.
HLS also support P2P.
You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.
That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.
Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.
Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.
Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.
Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.
A much bigger issue is storage.
Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience. HLS also support P2P.
You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.
Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.
That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.
Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.