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# PeerTube app for YunoHost
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[](https://ci-apps.yunohost.org/jenkins/job/peertube%20%28Community%29/lastBuild/consoleFull)
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[](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube)<br><br>
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Shipped Version: **1.2.1**
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## What is Peertube ?
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PeerTube is a federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser, using <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
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## Why Peertube ?
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We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server.
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So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as [Hubzilla YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/hubzilla_ynh), [Friendica YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh),[Mastodon YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/mastodon_ynh)), [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) ([Diaspora YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/diaspora_ynh)),[Funkwhale](https://funkwhale.audio) ([Funkwhale YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/funkwhale_ynh))).
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But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
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It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
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Thanks to [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
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## Why is that cool ?
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Servers are run independently by different people and organizations. They can apply wildly different moderation policies, so you can find or make one that fits your taste perfectly.
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By watching a video, you help the hosting provider to broadcast it by becoming a broadcaster of the video yourself. Each instance doesn’t need much money to broadcast the videos of its users.
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## Demonstration
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Want to see in action?
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* [Here](http://peertube.cpy.re) are the list of instances ran by people around the world. Be a part of it.
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## Installation
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### Guidelines
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1. Require **dedicated domain** like **peertube.domain.tld**.
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1. **No LDAP** support (blocked until Peertube core upstream implements it)
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1. URL can not be changed once selected. Choose the domain wisely.
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1. You need more then **1GB** of ram. If you don't have it, please create a **swap memory**.
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$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576
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$ mkswap /swapfile
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$ swapon /swapfile
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$ echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
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1. This app is **multi-instance** (you can have more then one Peertube instance running on a YunoHost server)
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### Installing guide
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1. App can be installed by YunoHost **admin web-interface** or by **running following command**:
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$ sudo yunohost app install https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh
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1. Admin username is : **root**.
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1. **Admin password** will be sent to the email address given at the time of the installation.
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1. **TLS** and **starttls** are disabled for the outgoing mails. If you intent to use email address not hosted on your local server,it's advised to have a proper SMTP configured with tls and starttls settings by editing **/var/www/peertube/config/production.yml**.
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### Update Guide
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1. App can be updated by YunoHost **admin web-interface** or with the following command**:
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$ sudo yunohost app upgrade -u https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh peertube
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### Dependencies
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* NodeJS, PostgreSQL.
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* On Debian Jessie,backport is added for the ffmpeg package.
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## LICENSE
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PeerTube is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
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