Compatibility

The server version must be >= 4.0

Why ?

Instances are often hosted by people without the funds of a large company and bandwidth isn't free. Even if WebTorrents are used, it only has an impact on bandwidth if multiple people are watching the file together.

This tool will act as another seed for the video.

Start

This script uses libtorrent which (at the time of writing) only has webtorrent support on the master branch. I can't be bothered writing a script to install libtorrent requirements and build it --> docker to the rescue. The docker image builds upon libtorrent-docker.

$ docker pull registry.gitlab.com/namingthingsishard/media_tools/peertube-reseed
$ alias peertube-reseed='docker run --rm registry.gitlab.com/namingthingsishard/media_tools/peertube-reseed'
# Install command globally
$ peertube-reseed --help
usage: peertube-reseed [-h] [--version] [-s SORTS]
                       [--active-downloads ACTIVE_DOWNLOADS] [-c COUNT]
                       [-o OUTPUT] [-d DOWNLOAD_PATH]
                       target_server

positional arguments:
  target_server         Which server to help reseed trending videos

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             Print the version number
  -s SORTS, --sorts SORTS
                        Which sort of video to reseed, in descending priority.
                        Allowed options hot,trending,likes,views,createdAt,pub
                        lishedAt,name,duration (default: ['hot', 'trending',
                        'likes', 'views', 'createdAt', 'publishedAt', 'name',
                        'duration'])
  --active-downloads ACTIVE_DOWNLOADS
                        Number torrents to download at the same time. Each
                        torrent has one video file in a specific resolution. A
                        video can thus have individual torrents for 360p,480p,
                        1080p (default: 3)
  -c COUNT, --count COUNT
                        Number of videos to reseed. Keep in mind that videos
                        have multiple files for each resolution they are
                        encoded in (default: 10)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Provide a file path to where the progress will be
                        output. (default: /dev/stderr)
  -d DOWNLOAD_PATH, --download-path DOWNLOAD_PATH
                        Download dir of all videos (default: /tmp/peertube-
                        reseed)

Example

peertube-reseed --count 15 https://tilvids.com

Development

I'm not going to bother with non-docker stuff, since I haven't tested it. If someone wants to contribute a default.nix, feel free to.

You can make modifications to peertube_reseed/__main__.py and run docker-compose up --no-log-prefix. You can pass other commands to the script e.g docker-compose run --rm reseed https://tilvids.com

vitlav/peertube-reseed

Compatibility

Why ?

Start

Development