Blender Foundation YouTube Update: Video.blender.org
While the YouTube situation is still unresolved, the Blender Foundation has started experimenting with the Peer to Peer video hosting platform PeerTube (hint: they're doing a crowdfunding campaign right now!)
We are doing a PeerTube test on video.blender.org. It is running on one of our own servers, in a European datacenter. Just click around and have some fun. We’re curious to see how it holds!
Here’s an embedded video from PeerTube – leave it open to help others watch it too!
Took me 10 min to watch this 1 min animation….. The animation was good so it was worth it…. but unnecessary…
What do you mean? For me, it plays instantly.
For me it also plays instantly but every lets say 10 to 15 sec it stops and it loads? but guess its only me with this problem so dont worry about it.
Nevermind, it seems I’m not the only one receiving a problem with the player…. Funny how people treat you like your crazy until someone else also has the same problem….. You know, like its impossible for the player not to work for everyone….
Of course it’s impossible ;) No actually, I experienced the same problem (video stopping and loading), but only when playing the video embedded here. When visiting video.blender.org and watching the video there, it plays smoothly.
Streamable peering has a lot of latency issues in current year, mostly due to ISPs throttling uplink speeds. Workaround:
sudo youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205
-t. Burgerlander
Thanks for you effort.
works fine, and nice video, btw :D
I’m not well versed with this current situation with the Blender Foundation but I’ve grown very weary of YT ads. It’s so ridiculous . . . with pretty much anything you try to watch there now. Entirely out of hand in my opinion. Really angers me to see YT try and bully content creators out because it doesn’t meet their ‘standards’ or can’t generate enough revenue to sustain the Google ideals. That type of mentality ultimately flies in the face of ‘open source’ anyway. Ugh!! The new hosting location appears to work correctly for me. Blender 3D always finds a way to succeed!! :)
There is only one quality/resolution to select (PeerTube supports multi bitrate).
And based on this adaptive bitrate of course. I think this is a very important for modern streaming. But I don’t know I PeerTube already supports this.
It does support it, but it is not (yet) activated on the server (maybe they didn’t know the option).
Someone gave the solution on Twitter, they should correct that :)
So there is 720p now, too. And it switches automatically. But it isn’t flawless. There is a hard cut an pause while switching from 720p to 1080p.
Youtube really becoming something strange these days ! But that’s great to see peertube in action, i only saw some test from the team for now, but video worked perfectly for me (with only 1 pairs) and player seems really responsive ! for these kind of “users” (meaning the blender fundation/cloud…) seems to me that is a really great solution (open source, not big company depended, on its own server…)
Anyway good luck with the problem !
The player worked perfectly for me !
P2P has bad publicity, like Bit Torrent etc. Hope there won’t be any legal issues.
i’m in england, plays instantly here too
If you believe in opensource and in freedom it is worth mentionning that Peertube launched a Crowdfunding campaign here:
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
Remember when blender’s early adopters liberated its code by basically doing a crowdfunding 16 years ago?
Is this still operational? 11:44 pm Amsterdam time – 9:44am NZ time. All I am seeing is a black box. IE11
Lots of stuttering and buffering for me, beautiful animation but presentation format is essentially unwatchable. My connection is not the best, however.
I believe that the more people that sign up for the hub, and therefore distribute the load, the better playback will get. Just like a Torrent that only has a few sources. I was only getting max 4 at a time so it wasn’t seamless. However I’m super glad that Blender is making this move:) I’m willing to deal with some growing pains. Don’t forget this is Beta software.
Nice animation, video stutters a lot tho, never more than 4 peers….
Go for dailymotion !!!
Works just fine for me! and awesome video!
I would recommend using youtube-dl at this point for Peertube videos.
Step 1: install youtube-dl
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
Step 2: Update it regularly (it changes often in response to youtube, etc, interface changes)
sudo youtube-dl -U (Linux)
youtube-dl -U (Windows)
Step 3: Place practically any video URL at the end of the youtube-dl command
youtube-dl https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205
Pre-downloading Peertube videos to your drive will entirely eliminate any p2p network latency issues.
Even easier, you click teh menu (the “3 dots”) you donwload the torrent and that’s it.
Perhaps (I admit I never noticed ellipsis) but youtube-dl is a powerful tool in one’s arsenal if your managing video from the Internet. For example, what if no 3-dots are to be found?
Very true, but it means the provider never wanted you to save the content. That’s another reason to support Peertube in this case.