This demo app lets you publish videos on Steem
Today we are releasing our prototype app, that lets anyone upload raw videos, as well as cross upload from YouTube.
If you don't feel like uploading anything, here a video by @rerez.
How it works
Videos are being distributed to our small cluster (just 2 nodes in Europe at the moment). We are using IPFS to sync the underlying files between the nodes, and the Steem blockchain for immutable storage of root hashes and video metadata.
What is missing?
For the system to be able to scale, there are two critical components that need to be implemented:
1.) An efficient, server-less mechanism for video encoding.
2.) Fair and cost effective incentive system for node providers to store and stream content.
We are currently preparing proposals for addressing both challenges.
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Great stuff... will we be able to embed video into Steemit posts eventually?
We will ship the embeddable player in the next few weeks. Any app (Steemit, Busy, chainbb) or website could then integrate these videos.
Good to hear - really looking forward to see where this goes. Demo app works well. Very clean, simple and easy-to-use.
It's very exciting to see this project coming to life.
I bet a lot of us had this idea of using IPFS and matching it with blockchain tech while not lot of us had the competences to make it happen. Steem is particularly well suited for this match.
I'm eager to see how efficient, server-less mechanism for video encoding and fair and cost effective incentive system for node providers to store and stream content can be implemented.
I'm also glad to help support this project.
Congrats to you @furion!
@furion This is soooo exciting and incredible wow!! Some next level stuff taking place!
this sounds great!
And don't forget bitchute, although I don't know the benefits webtorrent vs IPFS!
it going to be a boost. would love to see a user friendly interface
holy hell this is big news!!
holy ship, ur SHIPPPING it?? That makes it sound so official! dude embeddable player!?!?!
so wait so we can now embed non youtube non vimeo ? once your embeddable player is available?
what form does it come in? Like...isnt this going to have to be embedded into steemit.com code? isnt a hard form needed for that? Or no? teemit.com can just be upgraded at anytime by the people who run steemit right? steem BOCKCHAInis the underlying decentrallized system...chainbb and busy.org will be able to allow people to embedd videos now? and steemit.com too? I think people need a visual graphic to explain how steemit.com works and how steem blockchain works and how steem blockchainand steemit.com are different (most people think steemit.com is everything)
Anyway you could explain how the embeddable player exists? wwhat foorm does it come in ? An you refer to steemit an busy.org or chainBB as "apps" and maybe we all need to view this all like you do? viewing steemit.com not as a website but as an application ?
What good they are going to put to publish videos is a fable way to express ourselves better thanks :-)
Awesome dude i will try in next post i have a video that i just want to post on steemit
and by you gave me a news Thanks alot bro
Wow! Looking forward for the updates on this player.
Such awesome!
great work @furion, and perhaps you may find a few additional ideas in my latest post to help deal with some of the "monetization" issues...!
Link: Ultimate STEEMIT: Post Vote Slider and Past Payout Monetizer... and next, here comes SteemTUBE!!! 😲
So is SteemQ now Viewly or are these two different things, or one is the player and Viewly is the service?
This is amazing! Somebody just dropped the link of this article in my blog, I'm glad he did and like that I found your project. It will be groundbreaking!
Great. Im from aceh
That is really cool man! Can't wait to use the app when it starts shipping. I am assuming it will be available for both main platforms?
Hi @Furion, Though lots and lots of people are joining steemit.com on regular basis and this social media is turning into something big. Still, there are some points that used to make me think something was missing in it. That something was absence/little presence of visual content that we see in all other major social media channels. @Viewly changed my views and now I am think steemit has more chances to stay in the industry and compete with mainstream social media sites.
Great job done and I'm definitely going to try it for my future posts.
looking forward to upload!! ;-)
haha
server is overloaded :( I hope they will fix it soon, I like to post video and I like the idea, it's just amazing ☺
isn't this already possible with youtube ?
Another steem browser site can support this feature first. If it gets popular and works well Steemit will want to support it so it will be easier to see the video in those post. They will have the chance to investigate their own video player for security and features etc.
hehe it works, uploaded 2560x1440 60fps webm :-)
https://upload.view.ly/view/useruploads/my-first-viewly-video-0021f594e7
Woah, it looks fantastic.
Will need to spin up a few more nodes to increase streaming speed :)
Well yeah but what about initiatives like BitChute, is IPFS better than webtorrent?
Wow that looks amazing! How did you shoot that? And is there something about this platform that streams better quality than I'm used to from Youtube?
It was shot with a Yi4k+ on a M5 Fotopro mini tripod. Recorded in 4K60fps in Medium quality.
Then uploaded to Youtube. Then downloaded the 2560x1440@60fps webm version from Youtube with winx ytd. And then uploaded this YT webm file from my computer to Viewly (4K webm was over 100MB limit)
Fantastic quality and the scene made my day...thank you, @pagandance. Is it possible to upload raw videos captured on an iPhone ?
I think it accepts everything, but you should ask @furion
I am a novist in shooting a video for online usage, so I will not even ask how it's done to confuse myself, but commendation is in order to the Steemian who did that video. Very good - woot, woot.
wow!! Nice job, awesome quality!!
Nice one Furion! My faith in you is somewhat restored; I knew you were one of the good guys :-)
Cg
why ?
Such awesome!
Lol
My favorite comment on the thread.....Unfortunately no response. That means something....
I got an error; so I thought i'd show it to you, it's UHD video, 3840x2160p, 30fps. 95mb file
Chrome, MacOS Sierra, and straight out of my camera, no compression, just cut a 95mb file from it.
Uploading...Done. Generating thumbnails...Done. Syncing...FAILED.
Looked good, right up to when I got this error.
I figure it's the huge resolution, if you have other HD stuff that works, maybe this is past it's capabilities?
Lot's of PCs will not play this video without dropping frames, so it could be pushing the capabilities of your system..
I would suggest uploading to YT first. Then let them do the conversion ;-) Wait for 4K version to appear.
Then with winx ytd, you download the webm version that fits in 100MB - the higher resolution the better.
Then upload this file to the blockchain. The webm file is really small and the quality is amazing.
What was the size of the original? Could you dropbox the original for me for encoding permutations study?
Yes, here is a link; I'm pretty sure it's under 100Mb, I made a few edits to be sure it was inside your file limit size.
I'd like to see it working, so here is a link to gdrive, shared file, straight out of camera, cut down to 97mb:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeK-hsKLfPSUVBXbmk1blJ2Qlk/view?usp=sharing
I'll check this out asap :-)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeK-hsKLfPSUVBXbmk1blJ2Qlk/view?usp=sharing
My UFO video got put up there.. that worked great. It's a small 9MB file.
https://upload.view.ly/view/useruploads/grey-alien-filmed-by-kgb-b99ea291b3
Works good!
Such awesome!
Great news! i'm so excited and can't wait.
Good job.
i have been struggling to embed videos in my new blog but i couldn't .i dont have a youtube channel to upload from . i hope this will be the solution as to just copy and paste. thank you for trying to make it happen. i am new to steem and still learning about it.
Upvoted and followed. I just created a YouTube channel for LibertyTeeth and it was surprisingly easy. I think this is a great development as I won't need to maintain two separate accounts in order to host videos here.
Here's how I did it:
WOW
I waited for this! Hope you'll succeed scaling this. Good luck!