The costly storage isn’t worth it, apparently.
Peertube can stream
Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads
Submitted 4 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/news/616296/twitch-storage-cap-highlights-uploads-speedrunning
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s true, they can. But that storage isn’t cheap either. If everyone up and walked away from twitch the peer tube instances couldn’t handle it in bandwidth or storage.
I honestly like to see peer tube architecture change a little bit. Instead of contributors needing to stand up an entire server to join in the pool maybe They could just leave a platform dependent executable running that provides local storage and peering, The indexing could still be left to the hosted servers.
I feel that everyone should be paying to host their video locally, and then benefit from Network peering for distribution.
The fact that commercial sites pay to keep nearly limitless amounts of your files online as frankly insane.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Honestly 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.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
PeerTube already have tools that can contribute to the network of instances.
You have “remote runners” which can very easily be set up, which can off-load transcoding of videos and live streams, as well as some other tasks like subtitle generation and thumbnails.
You can also enable redundancy on an instance, which will download videos from other instances and then function as a peer and temporary backup of the video, in case the instance is down.
What I would like to see next, is an easily installable client that will allow users to function as a peer for videos.
The biggest issue however, is storage. Not sure how that can be solved.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wish they would go after the starting soon screen that most run for 30 minutes before they actually get on to stream
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
What exactly is the harm? I would assume they are checking to ensure all of their hardware and software is working as intended. You’re free to view something else or enjoy an entirely different activity in the interim.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think what they mean is that it takes storage space for no reason after the stream is over
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If someone says the show is starting at 7:00 and I arrive at 7:00 I expect their show to start within a few minutes. If they’re still checking to make sure things are working a half an hour later, they fucked up.