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30 lines
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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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* Any known limitations, constrains or stuff not working, such as (but not limited to):
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* Require **dedicated domain** like **peertube.domain.tld**.
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* Admin username is: **root**.
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* **Admin password and LDAP configuration** will be sent to the email address given at the time of the installation.
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* URL can not be changed once selected. Choose the domain wisely.
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* You need more then **1 GB** 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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* This app is **multi-instance** (you can have more then one PeerTube instance running on a YunoHost server)
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* **If you are hosted on OVH virtual machine or experiencing `gyp ERR! configure error`, please switch to [ovh_fix](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh/tree/ovh_fix)**
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* LDAP auth is supported, LDAP configuration will be sent to the email address given at the time of the installation.
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* HTTP auth is not supported
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