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1# PeTube
2
3Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorent) directly in the web browser with [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent).
4
5[![js-standard-style](https://cdn.rawgit.com/feross/standard/master/badge.svg)](https://github.com/feross/standard)
6
7## Features
8
9- [ ] Join a network
10 - [X] Generate a RSA key
11 - [X] Ask for the friend list of other pods and make friend with them
12 - [ ] Get the list of the videos owned by a pod when making friend with it
13 - [ ] Post the list of its own videos when making friend with another pod
14- [X] Upload a video
15 - [X] Seed the video
16 - [X] Send the meta data to all other friends
17- [X] Remove the video
18- [X] List the videos
19- [X] Search a video name (local index)
20- [X] View the video in an HTML5 page with webtorrent
21- [ ] Manage user accounts
22 - [ ] Inscription
23 - [ ] Connection
24 - [ ] Account rights (upload...)
25- [ ] Make the network auto sufficient (eject bad pods etc)
26- [ ] Manage API breaks
27- [ ] Add "DDOS" security (check if a pod don't send too many requests for example)
28
29## Front compatibility
30
31 * Chromium
32 * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support)
33
34
35## Usage
36
37### Dependencies
38
39 * NodeJS >= 0.12
40 * Grunt-cli (npm install -g grunt-cli)
41 * OpenSSL (cli)
42 * MongoDB
43 * xvfb-run (for electron)
44
45### Test It!
46
47 $ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
48 $ cd PeopleTube
49 # npm install -g electron-prebuilt
50 $ npm install
51 $ npm start
52
53### Test with many 3 fresh nodes
54 $ scripts/clean_test.sh
55 $ scripts/run_servers.sh
56
57Then 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 :)
58
59## Why
60
61We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software.
62One organization alone cannot have enought money to pay bandwith and video storage of its server.
63So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example).
64But it's not enought because one video could become famous and overload the server.
65It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
66Thanks to [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.
67
68## Architecture
69
70### Backend
71
72 * The backend whould be a REST API
73 * Servers would communicate with each others with it
74 * Each server of a network has a list of all other servers of the network
75 * 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"
76 * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...)
77 * 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
78 * Each server has a RSA key to encrypt and sign communications with other servers
79 * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it
80 * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server where the video was uploaded
81 * A server would run webtorrent-hybrid to be a bridge with webrtc/standard bittorrent protocol
82 * A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtimes for example)
83
84See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more informations. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :)
85
86Here are some simple schemes:
87
88![Decentralized](http://lutim.cpy.re/aV2pawRz)
89
90![Watch a video](http://lutim.cpy.re/AlOeoVPi)
91
92![Watch a video P2P](http://lutim.cpy.re/fb0JH6C3)
93
94![Join a network](http://lutim.cpy.re/ijuCgmpI)
95
96![Many networks](http://lutim.cpy.re/iz8mXHug)
97
98### Frontend
99
100There would be a simple frontend (Bootstrap, AngularJS) but since the backend is a REST API anybody could build a frontend (Web application, desktop application...).
101The backend uses bittorent protocol, so users could use their favorite bittorent client to download/play the video after having its torrent URI.