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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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] 21 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Peer to peer, hence the name. :)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 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 2 days ago

TIL, thanks!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

It's really awesome and it's also possible to setup your PeerTube instance as a peer, for another PeerTube instance's videos.

You can see here:

The instance videos.abnormalbeings.space has a copy of the video 17 New Indie Games – June 2025, that's hosted on PeerTube.wtf.

So when you go to the video, you'll see it has at least 2 peers - peertube.wtf + videos.abnormalbeings.space.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I've never seen any stats while watching on a browser or the iOS app. Where did you get those numbers?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

On a browser the stats are hidden behind the text "1 peer" on the bottom right of the player, next to the volume icon. When you hover over "1 peer" the stats will appear.

Haven't seen this in the android app either.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh that's true. When I watch something from the featured channels (i.e. something everyone else cares about, but I have zero interest in), there's an upload download counter etc. However, when I watch something that I actually want to click, I see none of that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ah, are these the local stats for your computer traffic? Or is it a total for that particular video?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Er, yikes, over how much time?

Is your bandwidth uncapped?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You can disable the P2P feature.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

This is for a 15 minute long video. I have unlimited bandwidth.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

A lot of residential plans where I live only cap the downloads.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The hell? That's fucked up....

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I mean they probably throttle upload to 1/10th the bandwidth as download...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ding ding ding!

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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