103 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown
103 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown
# PeerTube
|
|
|
|
Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorent) directly in the web browser with [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent).
|
|
|
|
[](https://github.com/feross/standard)
|
|
|
|
## Features
|
|
|
|
- [ ] Join a network
|
|
- [X] Generate a RSA key
|
|
- [X] Ask for the friend list of other pods and make friend with them
|
|
- [ ] Get the list of the videos owned by a pod when making friend with it
|
|
- [ ] Post the list of its own videos when making friend with another pod
|
|
- [X] Upload a video
|
|
- [X] Seed the video
|
|
- [X] Send the meta data to all other friends
|
|
- [X] Remove the video
|
|
- [X] List the videos
|
|
- [X] Search a video name (local index)
|
|
- [X] View the video in an HTML5 page with webtorrent
|
|
- [ ] Manage user accounts
|
|
- [ ] Inscription
|
|
- [ ] Connection
|
|
- [ ] Account rights (upload...)
|
|
- [ ] 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
|
|
|
|
### Dependencies
|
|
|
|
* NodeJS >= 0.12
|
|
* Grunt-cli (npm install -g grunt-cli)
|
|
* OpenSSL (cli)
|
|
* MongoDB
|
|
* xvfb-run (for electron)
|
|
|
|
### Test It!
|
|
|
|
$ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
|
|
$ 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
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
## 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
|
|
* Servers would communicate with each others with it
|
|
* Each server of a network has a list of all other servers of the network
|
|
* 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"
|
|
* Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...)
|
|
* 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
|
|
* 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 where the video was uploaded
|
|
* A server would run webtorrent-hybrid to be a bridge with webrtc/standard bittorrent protocol
|
|
* A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtimes for example)
|
|
|
|
See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more informations. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :)
|
|
|
|
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.
|