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1 | <h1 align="center"> | |
2 | PeerTube | |
3 | </h1> | |
4 | ||
5 | <h4 align="center"> | |
6 | Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) | |
7 | directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>. | |
8 | </h4> | |
9 | ||
10 | **PeerTube is developed by [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/?l=en), a non-profit | |
11 | that promotes and spreads free culture in general, and free-libre software in | |
12 | particular. If you want to support this project, please [consider | |
13 | donating to them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).** | |
14 | ||
15 | <p align="center"> | |
16 | <strong>Client</strong> | |
17 | ||
18 | <br /> | |
19 | ||
20 | <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client"> | |
21 | <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" /> | |
22 | </a> | |
23 | ||
24 | <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client&type=dev"> | |
25 | <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" /> | |
26 | </a> | |
27 | ||
28 | <a href="https://www.browserstack.com/automate/public-build/VXBPc0szNjUvRUNsREJQRFF6RkEvSjJBclZ4VUJBUm1hcS9RZGpUbitRST0tLWFWbjNEdVN6eEZpYTk4dGVpMkVlQWc9PQ==--644e755052bf7fe2346eb6e868be8e706718a17c%"> | |
29 | <img src='https://www.browserstack.com/automate/badge.svg?badge_key=VXBPc0szNjUvRUNsREJQRFF6RkEvSjJBclZ4VUJBUm1hcS9RZGpUbitRST0tLWFWbjNEdVN6eEZpYTk4dGVpMkVlQWc9PQ==--644e755052bf7fe2346eb6e868be8e706718a17c%'/> | |
30 | </a> | |
31 | </p> | |
32 | ||
33 | <p align="center"> | |
34 | <strong>Server</strong> | |
35 | ||
36 | <br /> | |
37 | ||
38 | <a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube"> | |
39 | <img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" /> | |
40 | </a> | |
41 | ||
42 | <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube"> | |
43 | <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" /> | |
44 | </a> | |
45 | ||
46 | <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?type=dev"> | |
47 | <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" /> | |
48 | </a> | |
49 | ||
50 | <a href="http://standardjs.com/"> | |
51 | <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" /> | |
52 | </a> | |
53 | ||
54 | <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube"> | |
55 | <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" /> | |
56 | </a> | |
57 | </p> | |
58 | ||
59 | <br /> | |
60 | ||
61 | <p align="center"> | |
62 | <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re"> | |
63 | <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" /> | |
64 | </a> | |
65 | </p> | |
66 | ||
67 | <p align="center"> | |
68 | <strong><a title="Website" target="_blank" href="https://joinpeertube.org">Website</a> | | |
69 | <a title="Instances list" target="_blank" href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org">Instances list</a> | |
70 | </strong> | |
71 | </p> | |
72 | ||
73 | ## Demonstration | |
74 | ||
75 | Want to see it in action? | |
76 | ||
77 | * Demonstration servers: | |
78 | * [peertube.cpy.re](http://peertube.cpy.re) | |
79 | * [peertube2.cpy.re](http://peertube2.cpy.re) | |
80 | * [peertube3.cpy.re](http://peertube3.cpy.re) | |
81 | * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504) | |
82 | to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like | |
83 | * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) to see | |
84 | the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon) | |
85 | ||
86 | ## Why | |
87 | ||
88 | We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, | |
89 | Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have | |
90 | enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers. | |
91 | ||
92 | So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as | |
93 | [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not | |
94 | enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the | |
95 | reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to | |
96 | [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus | |
97 | BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today. | |
98 | ||
99 | ## Dependencies | |
100 | ||
101 | * nginx | |
102 | * PostgreSQL | |
103 | * Redis | |
104 | * **NodeJS >= 8.x** | |
105 | * yarn | |
106 | * OpenSSL (cli) | |
107 | * **FFmpeg >= 3.x** | |
108 | ||
109 | ## Run using Docker | |
110 | ||
111 | See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md) | |
112 | ||
113 | ## Production | |
114 | ||
115 | See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md). | |
116 | ||
117 | ## Contributing/Test | |
118 | ||
119 | See the [contributing | |
120 | guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) | |
121 | to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube. Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a | |
122 | coder to help! | |
123 | ||
124 | ## API REST documentation | |
125 | ||
126 | Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md) | |
127 | ||
128 | Endpoints documentation: | |
129 | ||
130 | * HTML version: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/api/html/index.html) | |
131 | * Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml) | |
132 | ||
133 | ## Tools | |
134 | ||
135 | * [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md) | |
136 | * [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md) | |
137 | ||
138 | ## FAQ | |
139 | ||
140 | If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first. | |
141 | ||
142 | ## Architecture | |
143 | ||
144 | See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation. | |
145 | ||
146 | ### Backend | |
147 | ||
148 | * The backend is a REST API. | |
149 | * Servers communicate with each others with [Activity | |
150 | Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/). | |
151 | * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the | |
152 | torrent URI of this specific video is...). | |
153 | * If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some | |
154 | metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...). | |
155 | * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it. | |
156 | * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through | |
157 | [WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the | |
158 | video was uploaded. | |
159 | ||
160 | Here are some simple schemes: | |
161 | ||
162 | <p align="center"> | |
163 | ||
164 | <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" /> | |
165 | ||
166 | <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" /> | |
167 | ||
168 | <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" /> | |
169 | ||
170 | </p> | |
171 | ||
172 | ## License | |
173 | ||
174 | Copyright (C) 2018 PeerTube Contributors | |
175 | ||
176 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
177 | it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published | |
178 | by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
179 | (at your option) any later version. | |
180 | ||
181 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
182 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
183 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
184 | GNU Affero General Public License for more details. | |
185 | ||
186 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License | |
187 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |