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I just watched how PeerTube is intended to work (discuss.tchncs.de)
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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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

TIL, thanks!

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