Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoHonestly that is a great idea. With a p2p network you could have automatic NAT traversal so that all one would need to do is run a client on a PC that would be the central source for content. From a viewer perspective you could have some sort of caching system that would reduce the network load.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Peer tube already supports P2P. If 10 people are all watching the same video they’ll share pieces to other people.
I was trying to throw it up in my home lab a couple of months ago and having to set it up with public access DNS and namespace beforehand seemed unnecessary. If there was an option where At least in part it were just like a torrent client I think it would go over a lot better.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I think it needs a more decentralized architecture with central control servers managed by a company. The community would do the bulk of the lifting and the company would scrap revenue off the top. They would manage a payment system for paid content and merch.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
No good having it centralized and managed by a company.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It will never be all that useful then. You need some sort of financial support. Video content is expensive.