X-Git-Url: https://git.immae.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=1e1b1db560d2144072f83a0be9b45549054a0550;hb=refs%2Fpull%2F1%2Fhead;hp=35466aa5404230cb1a5df85d5b7b465386a8fa7c;hpb=9e0e8506e0ba19ac1c2350af466a21a5bd4ea06d;p=github%2FChocobozzz%2FPeerTube.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 35466aa54..1e1b1db56 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,26 @@ -# PeTube +# PeerTube -Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorent) directly in the web browser with [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent). +[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) +[![Dependencies Status](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg)](https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) + +Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorrent) directly in the web browser with [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent). [![js-standard-style](https://cdn.rawgit.com/feross/standard/master/badge.svg)](https://github.com/feross/standard) +## 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. + +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. +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. + ## Features +- [ ] Frontend + - [X] Simple frontend (All elements are generated by jQuery) + - [ ] AngularJS frontend - [ ] Join a network - [X] Generate a RSA key - [X] Ask for the friend list of other pods and make friend with them @@ -22,51 +37,49 @@ Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorent) dire - [ ] Inscription - [ ] Connection - [ ] Account rights (upload...) -- [ ] Make the network auto sufficient (eject bad pods etc) +- [X] Make the network auto sufficient (eject bad pods etc) - [ ] Manage API breaks - [ ] Add "DDOS" security (check if a pod don't send too many requests for example) -## Front compatibility - * Chromium - * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support) +## Usage +### Front compatibility -## Usage + * Chromium + * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support) ### Dependencies - * NodeJS >= 0.12 + * NodeJS == 0.12 * Grunt-cli (npm install -g grunt-cli) * OpenSSL (cli) * MongoDB - * xvfb-run (for electron) + * xvfb-run libgtk2.0-0 libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libasound2 libxtst6 libxss1 (for electron) ### Test It! $ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube - $ cd PeopleTube + $ cd PeerTube # npm install -g electron-prebuilt $ npm install $ npm start ### Test with 3 fresh nodes + $ scripts/clean_test.sh $ scripts/run_servers.sh 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 :) -## Why +### Dockerfile -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. -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. -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. +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. ## Architecture +See [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explication. + ### Backend * The backend whould be a REST API @@ -98,4 +111,4 @@ Here are some simple schemes: ### Frontend 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...). -The backend uses bittorent protocol, so users could use their favorite bittorent client to download/play the video after having its torrent URI. +The backend uses bittorrent protocol, so users could use their favorite bittorrent client to download/play the video after having its torrent URI.