Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
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+**PeerTube is sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framatube.org/#en), a non-profit that promotes, spreads and develops free-libre software. If you want to support this project, please [consider donating them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**
+
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<strong>Client</strong>
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- <a href="http://peertube.cpy.re">
- <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/vC2loRww" alt="screenshot" />
+ <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
+ <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/9HOUfGK8" alt="screenshot" />
</a>
</p>
Want to see in action?
- * 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)
- * You can find [a video](https://vimeo.com/164881662 "Yes Vimeo, please don't judge me") to see how the "decentralization feature" looks like
+ * [Demo server](http://peertube.cpy.re)
+ * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504) to see how the "decentralization feature" looks like
* Experimental demo servers that share videos (they are in the same network): [peertube2](http://peertube2.cpy.re), [peertube3](http://peertube3.cpy.re). Since I do experiments with them, sometimes they might not work correctly.
## Why
-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.
+We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server.
So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example).
-But it's not enought because one video could become famous and overload the server.
+But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
Thanks to [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.
- [X] Friends list
- [X] Manage users (create/remove)
- [X] OpenGraph tags
+- [X] OEmbed
- [X] Update video
-- [X] Videos view count
+- [X] Videos view counter
- [X] Videos likes/dislikes
-- [ ] Videos comments?
+- [X] Transcoding to different definitions
+- [X] Download file/torrent
+- [X] User video bytes quota
+- [X] User channels
+- [X] NSFW warnings/settings
+- [X] Video description in markdown
+- [X] User roles (administrator, moderator)
- [X] User registration
-- [ ] User playlists
-- [ ] User subscriptions (by tags, author...)
+- [X] Video privacy settings (public, unlisted or private)
- [X] Signaling a video to the admin origin pod
+- [ ] Videos comments
+- [ ] User playlist
+- [ ] User subscriptions (by tags, author...)
## Installation
### Dependencies
- * **NodeJS >= 4.x**
+ * **NodeJS >= 6.x**
* **npm >= 3.x**
+ * yarn
* OpenSSL (cli)
* PostgreSQL
* FFmpeg
#### Debian
- * Install NodeJS 4.x (actual LTS): [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)
+ * Install NodeJS 6.x (actual LTS): [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)
+ * Install yarn: [https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install)
* Add jessie backports to your *source.list*: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
* Run:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install ffmpeg postgresql-9.4 openssl
- # npm install -g npm@3
#### Other distribution... (PR welcome)
$ git clone -b master https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
$ cd PeerTube
- $ npm install # Or npm install --unsafe-perm for root user
+ $ yarn install
$ npm run build
## Usage
The following commands will upgrade the source (according to your current branch), upgrade node modules and rebuild client application:
# systemctl stop peertube
- $ npm run upgrade
+ $ npm run upgrade-peertube
# systemctl start peertube
### Development
-In this mode, the server will run requests between pods more quickly, the videos duration are limited to a few seconds and the client files are automatically compiled when we modify them:
+In this mode, the server will run requests between pods more quickly, the video durations are limited to a few seconds.
+
+To develop on the server-side (server files are automatically compiled when we modify them and the server restarts automatically too):
+
+ $ npm run dev:server
+
+The server (with the client) will listen on `localhost:9000`.
+
+
+To develop on the client side (client files are automatically compiled when we modify them):
+
+ $ npm run dev:client
- $ npm run dev
+The API will listen on `localhost:9000` and the frontend on `localhost:3000` (with hot module replacement, you don't need to refresh the web browser).
**Username**: *root* <br/>
**Password**: *test*
$ npm run clean:server:test
$ npm run play
-Then you will can access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}` with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password. 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 :)
+Then you will get access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}` with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password. 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 :)
### Other commands
* Each server of a network has a list of all other servers of this network
* When a new installed server wants to join a network, it just has to get the servers list through a server that is already in the network and tell "Hi I'm new in the network, communicate with me and share me your servers list please". Then the server will "make friend" with each server of this list
* Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...)
- * If a user upload a video, the server seeds it and sends the video informations (name, short description, torrent URI...) to each server of the network
+ * If a user upload a video, the server seeds it and sends the video information (name, short description, torrent URI...) to each server of the network
* Each server has a RSA key to encrypt and sign communications with other servers
* A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it
- * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (throught [WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the video was uploaded
- * A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtimes for example)
+ * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through [WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the video was uploaded
+ * A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtime for example)
-See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more informations. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :)
+See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more information. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :)
Here are some simple schemes:
<p align="center">
-<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/isWwz8tt" alt="Decentralized" />
+<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />
-<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/VLheltQk" alt="Watch a video" />
+<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />
-<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/worHQwKv" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
+<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
-<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/MyeS4q1g" alt="Join a network" />
+<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/wWVuczBz.png" alt="Join a network" />
-<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/PqpTTzdP" alt="Many networks" />
+<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/AMo3uP0D.png" alt="Many networks" />
</p>
### Frontend
-There already is a frontend (Angular 2) but the backend is a REST API so anybody can build a frontend (Web application, desktop application...).
+There already is a frontend (Angular) but the backend is a REST API so anybody can build a frontend (Web application, desktop application...).
The backend uses BitTorrent protocol, so users could use their favorite BitTorrent client to download/play the video with its torrent URI.
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