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1 | # PeerTube | |
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3 | **Server** | |
4 | [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) | |
5 | [![Dependencies Status](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg)](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) | |
6 | [![devDependency Status](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg)](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube#info=devDependencies) | |
7 | [![Code climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/badges/gpa.svg)](https://codeclimate.com/github/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) | |
8 | ||
9 | **Client** | |
10 | [![Dependency Status](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client)](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client) | |
11 | [![devDependency Status](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client)](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client#info=devDependencies) | |
12 | ||
13 | [![js-standard-style](https://cdn.rawgit.com/feross/standard/master/badge.svg)](https://github.com/feross/standard) | |
14 | ||
15 | Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorrent) directly in the web browser with [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent). | |
16 | ||
17 | ![screenshot](https://lutim.cpy.re/vC2loRww) | |
18 | ||
19 | ## Demonstration | |
20 | ||
21 | Want to see in action? | |
22 | ||
23 | * You can directly test in your browser with this [demo server](http://peertube.cpy.re). Don't forget to use the latest version of Firefox/Chromium/(Opera?) and check your firewall configuration (for WebRTC) | |
24 | * You can find [a video](https://vimeo.com/164881662 "Yes Vimeo, please don't judge me") to see how the "decentralization feature" looks like | |
25 | ||
26 | ## Why | |
27 | ||
28 | We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enought money to pay bandwith and video storage of its server. | |
29 | ||
30 | So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). | |
31 | But it's not enought because one video could become famous and overload the server. | |
32 | It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. | |
33 | Thanks to [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now. | |
34 | ||
35 | ## Features | |
36 | ||
37 | - [X] Frontend | |
38 | - [X] ~~Simple frontend (All elements are generated by jQuery)~~ | |
39 | - [X] Angular 2 frontend | |
40 | - [X] Join a network | |
41 | - [X] Generate a RSA key | |
42 | - [X] Ask for the friend list of other pods and make friend with them | |
43 | - [X] Get the list of the videos owned by a pod when making friend with it | |
44 | - [X] Post the list of its own videos when making friend with another pod | |
45 | - [X] Quit a network | |
46 | - [X] Upload a video | |
47 | - [X] Seed the video | |
48 | - [X] Send the meta data to all other friends | |
49 | - [X] Remove the video | |
50 | - [X] List the videos | |
51 | - [X] Search a video name (local index) | |
52 | - [X] View the video in an HTML5 page with WebTorrent | |
53 | - [ ] Manage user accounts | |
54 | - [ ] Inscription | |
55 | - [X] Connection | |
56 | - [X] Account rights (upload...) | |
57 | - [X] Make the network auto sufficient (eject bad pods etc) | |
58 | - [ ] Manage API breaks | |
59 | - [ ] Add "DDOS" security (check if a pod don't send too many requests for example) | |
60 | ||
61 | ||
62 | ## Installation | |
63 | ||
64 | ### Front compatibility | |
65 | ||
66 | * Chromium | |
67 | * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support) | |
68 | ||
69 | ### Dependencies | |
70 | ||
71 | * **NodeJS >= 4.2** | |
72 | * OpenSSL (cli) | |
73 | * MongoDB | |
74 | * ffmpeg xvfb-run libgtk2.0-0 libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libasound2 libxtst6 libxss1 libnotify-bin (for electron) | |
75 | ||
76 | #### Debian | |
77 | ||
78 | * Install NodeJS 4.2: [https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions) | |
79 | * Add jessie backports to your *source.list*: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ | |
80 | * Run: | |
81 | ||
82 | # apt-get update | |
83 | # apt-get install ffmpeg mongodb openssl xvfb curl sudo git build-essential libgtk2.0-0 libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libasound2 libxtst6 libxss1 libnotify-bin | |
84 | # npm install -g electron-prebuilt | |
85 | ||
86 | #### Other distribution... (PR welcome) | |
87 | ||
88 | ||
89 | ### Sources | |
90 | ||
91 | $ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube | |
92 | $ cd PeerTube | |
93 | $ npm install | |
94 | $ npm run build | |
95 | ||
96 | ## Usage | |
97 | ||
98 | ### Development | |
99 | ||
100 | $ npm start | |
101 | ||
102 | ### Test with 3 fresh nodes | |
103 | ||
104 | $ npm run clean:server:test | |
105 | $ npm run play | |
106 | ||
107 | Then you will can access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}`. If you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9002`, the pod 2 and 3 will become friends. Then if you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9001` it will become friend with the pod 2 and 3 (check the configuration files). Then the pod will communicate with each others. If you add a video on the pod 3 you'll can see it on the pod 1 and 2 :) | |
108 | ||
109 | ### Production | |
110 | ||
111 | If you want to run PeerTube for production (bad idea for now :) ): | |
112 | ||
113 | $ cp config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml | |
114 | ||
115 | Then edit the `config/production.yaml` file according to your webserver configuration. | |
116 | ||
117 | Finally, run the server with the `production` `NODE_ENV` variable set. | |
118 | ||
119 | $ NODE_ENV=production npm start | |
120 | ||
121 | ### Other commands | |
122 | ||
123 | To print all available command run: | |
124 | ||
125 | $ npm run help | |
126 | ||
127 | ## Dockerfile | |
128 | ||
129 | You can test it inside Docker with the [PeerTube-Docker repository](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube-Docker). Moreover it can help you to check how to create an environment with the required dependencies for PeerTube on a GNU/Linux distribution. | |
130 | ||
131 | ## Architecture | |
132 | ||
133 | See [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explication. | |
134 | ||
135 | ### Backend | |
136 | ||
137 | * The backend whould be a REST API | |
138 | * Servers would communicate with each others with it | |
139 | * Each server of a network has a list of all other servers of the network | |
140 | * When a new installed server wants to join a network, it just has to get the list of the servers via one server and tell them "Hi I'm new in the network, communicate with me too please" | |
141 | * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...) | |
142 | * Server begins to seed and sends to the other servers of the network the video information (name, short description, torrent URI) of a new uploaded video | |
143 | * Each server has a RSA key to encrypt and sign communications with other servers | |
144 | * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it | |
145 | * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server where the video was uploaded | |
146 | * A server would run webtorrent-hybrid to be a bridge with webrtc/standard bittorrent protocol | |
147 | * A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtimes for example) | |
148 | ||
149 | See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more informations. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :) | |
150 | ||
151 | Here are some simple schemes: | |
152 | ||
153 | ![Decentralized](https://lutim.cpy.re/Q7mnNdJP) | |
154 | ||
155 | ![Watch a video](https://lutim.cpy.re/0riSzAp1) | |
156 | ||
157 | ![Watch a video P2P](https://lutim.cpy.re/OzMSOtxG) | |
158 | ||
159 | ![Join a network](https://lutim.cpy.re/uVjNNRa9) | |
160 | ||
161 | ![Many networks](https://lutim.cpy.re/udTMqcb0) | |
162 | ||
163 | ### Frontend | |
164 | ||
165 | There would be a simple frontend (Bootstrap, AngularJS) but since the backend is a REST API anybody could build a frontend (Web application, desktop application...). | |
166 | The backend uses bittorrent protocol, so users could use their favorite bittorrent client to download/play the video after having its torrent URI. |