I know libtorrent added webtorrent support a while back, how does it work? I tried it in qBittorrent and Transmission, and it downloads from the webseed only

  • down daemon@lemmy.mlOP
    4·
    3 years ago

    A major limitation I’ve always noticed is you have to keep the window open to seed it, who’s realistically going to do that for any reasonable amount of time?

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
      5·
      3 years ago

      It’s not supposed to work like that. Imagine a video gets 2 views. Both viewers can mostly get the vid from the server without much being shared. If there ever should be 100s of people watching a video simultaneously, in the time one of them watches the video a typical internet connection can upload the video 1-10 times. That’s a huge weight lifted off from the server if many people upload a bunch. So with peertube I guess servers can scale better than they should be able to with their upload bandwidth.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.de
        4·
        3 years ago

        What I am trying to say is that the sharing only works if there is a sufficient amount of other people wanting to watch the video at this time. That’s where the magic should happen.

        I guess it would be cool if someone with a large peertube server did have stats which show performance and how much people shared between each other! Does something like this exist?