Re: 🎥 PureVidz.net: Decentralized Streaming WebTorrents 🎥 VIDZ

can I run ipfs on my home computer if I wanted to host a node?

Yes, as long as it isn't an ancient computer it should be good.

I'm actually not that happy about the transition. The setup for ipfs is going to lose some people. Not only that but you are switching from a beta interface in webtorrent to an alpha interface with ipfs.

I'm not sure about it. Maybe after I get over the initial headache of having to use the terminal again for something, ill begrudgingly go along with it. Maybe it will be good. Undecided

I'm not sure if there was a misunderstanding but let me try to reword some of what I said again so everyone is on the same page...

We're not abandoning WebTorrent support. Tomorrow, we are adding support for IPFS which will require some downtime to to transition and test things. We've contacted those who've been heavy uploaders of our platform and are working with them to have their content pulled off the site in the WebTorrent format and reuploaded in IPFS format. We expect most the content to be removed and replaced in the secondary format hence why we said there will be essentially a purge... the reason we're doing this is to test the scalability of IPFS in our infrastructure.

Suppose you were one of those people we contacted, you can simply refuse us and say "Sorry Pure_Vidz, I don't want to take this particular video down" or even "Sorry, too lazy" and that's fine, we're not forcing anyone to comply! After these changes content will uploadable in both WebTorrent and IPFS format.

For people who simply want to use the site rather than actually upload things these changes will greatly improve your over all experience.

I was basically saying I was part of the "sorry, too lazy" category. But I'm just tired right now. Tomorrow I'll probably do the whole setup and be ready to reupload.

I had edited this into my previous post but saw you replied before I submitted it so... here it is again:

I think you previously asked us about support for AVI/MKV/etc. while doing this with WebTorrents is currently beyond our scope as it will likely require much research, testing and very likely developing entirely new code on our end since IPFS allows us to have a direct link to the video this may be possible with using a combination of IPFS and Videojs although we haven't had time to test this yet.

Thanks for being on board with our plans Tongue