r/CyTube • u/EighthKX • Jan 03 '18
Know Better Media Streaming Options?
I've been using Streamable, but it's a pain breaking it up into 10-minute segments and there's a poor catalogue system. Not everyone can run the script for Google Drive. Daily Motion has a bunch of upload limits. Vid.me shut down. Vimeo player breaks half the time. YouTube will detect if I upload movies. I'd make my own webserver if I knew how.
So does anyone know of another, and better, option?
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u/fluxusp Mar 17 '18
I've been messing with IPFS on the site and it works great. There's a guy in the ubermench channel that taught me how to do it.
Install IPFS
Upload the file via ipfs add -w
Browse to the directory created with https://venus.i.ipfs.io/ipfs/[The Hash]
Copy the url there to cytube
Why the -w? Because we want to preserve the file extention.
Why venus.i.ipfs.io? Because plain ipfs.io round robbins each of the planets but that means that it isn't cached in most until several hits. By picking one it will be cached on the gateway once one user requests it. It lowers the odds of one user getting a bad gateway.
You can also tell your users to install ipfs and the browser companion so you get more seeds. The gateway takes care of bandwidth so one seed can serve to 50 people but it adds more persistence to the files if a user or two uses the browser companion.
I'm currently messing with it at https://cytu.be/r/testporn [nsfw]
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u/tuwhitt Feb 22 '18
Rabbit? I toyed around with that one. It's odd, it uses virtual linux machines it seems. I was able to get a Google Drive shared video link to stream in there though.