I know libtorrent added webtorrent support a while back, how does it work? I tried it in qBittorrent and Transmission, and it downloads from the webseed only

  • @AgreeableLandscape
    11•2 years ago

    Yes! Click on the download button under the video, select your desired resolution, click advaced, and you will have the option to download a .torrent file.

    You can also right click on the video player and use the option to copy the video magnet link, but for some reason, when I tried this in the past, I never got any peers.

    • down daemonOP
      3•2 years ago

      that’s the issue, i can’t tell if it’s uploading to peertube users, the Blender short video thing I watched has 7 peers but Tranmission showed 0 other than the webseed, qbittorrent showed 3 seeds but didn’t download from then

      • @AgreeableLandscape
        5•2 years ago

        I imagine the webseed would take priority in most BitTorrent implementations. I’ll seed some videos, and update this comment in a few days with how much they’ve been uploaded, if any.

          • Oliver
            1•10 months ago

            Try BiglyBT which comes with WebSocket support and you’ll see activity. libtorrent does not support WebSocket.

        • down daemonOP
          2•2 years ago

          i know that works, but libtorrent, that most major apps use, is supposed to support it now too

          • Oliver
            1•2 years ago

            Is this working in your case? The PeerTube-videos I have in my seeds (qBittorrent 4.3.9) have 2 trackers: https & wss. But in case of secured WebTorrent (wss) I just get ‘unsupported URL protocol’ for every torrent. If I stream a video from my mobile device I don’t see any upload from my Torrent-client on the Desktop - anyway I see little leeching-activity from time to time.

            • Oliver
              1•10 months ago

              libtorrent has no support for WebSocket (WS/WSS). If you seed it to someone, she or he is not downloading via WebTorrent.

    • Amicese
      1•1 year ago

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      • @AgreeableLandscape
        2•2 years ago

        Sure, but the vast majority of Peertube videos are under open licenses like Creative Commons, and I’m pretty sure you need to agree to having your video be torrented in the Peertube TOS when you upload. Basically, most videos made for Peertube is specifically meant by the creator to be shared in this way.

        Of course, this wouldn’t apply to if someone uploaded a pirated movie or show, but seeing how regular torrents for those are everywhere, I doubt they’re having much luck taking them down. Think at best they’d be able to DMCA the home Peertube instance and get the main copy and listing taken down.

  • down daemonOP
    4•2 years ago

    A major limitation I’ve always noticed is you have to keep the window open to seed it, who’s realistically going to do that for any reasonable amount of time?

    • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
      5•2 years ago

      It’s not supposed to work like that. Imagine a video gets 2 views. Both viewers can mostly get the vid from the server without much being shared. If there ever should be 100s of people watching a video simultaneously, in the time one of them watches the video a typical internet connection can upload the video 1-10 times. That’s a huge weight lifted off from the server if many people upload a bunch. So with peertube I guess servers can scale better than they should be able to with their upload bandwidth.

      • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
        4•2 years ago

        What I am trying to say is that the sharing only works if there is a sufficient amount of other people wanting to watch the video at this time. That’s where the magic should happen.

        I guess it would be cool if someone with a large peertube server did have stats which show performance and how much people shared between each other! Does something like this exist?

  • @the_tech_beast
    2•2 years ago

    So downloading a video as a torrent will reduce the load on the peertueb instance?