Why no open source community project alternative to twitch?

Why no open source community project alternative to twitch?

I call on Sup Forums to come together and build a foss alternative to twitch. Together we'll bully amazon and twitch out of the market and make twitch great again!

Whos in?

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github.com/eientei/videostreamer
github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui
cheekyvideos.net/
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I'll make the logo.

Step 1 complete.

Someone name it

gonk

Get that gonk logo into production

bump

Cool I think gonk is a nice name. Who's gonna make the website?

good luck making it secure and dealing with all that fucking TRAFFIC

Just make a shitcoin and use BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY to both fund and power it

Problem solved, people will subscribe using shitcoins wow now it has a currency with 'value'

The software is trivial; providing servers/bandwidth is the problem.

the positive part of this is that you don't have to deal with YouTube's problem of storing every video ever uploaded

this project would still need significant upfront capital, though, which FOSS software projects decidedly do not have, usually

I'll start up the electron based project on GitHub

make it a p2p service

> Shitcoin bchain with sia type p2p storage
> Good exercise for my projects
I am interested.... Go on?
How do you want to distribute tasks.
Make a github and throw it here.
How many people do we need ?

>implying gonk will have more than 5 users

Isn't chaturbate open soars

It doesn't matter how many people use it, just how cool the website looks so people invest and we all become billionaires

Make it more male centeric and less whores who do not play games. Stop putting popular people on the front page who accomplish nothing in games but scream on cam all day.

I am going to sleep now. There better be a gonk thread in the morning.

If no one makes a github by 9PM est, I'll post it here.

You could probably build it out of open source components already, OBS to record, a couple HTTP APIs done with to receive and dispense the video, some kind of frontend to display it (video.js probably). Might need some kind of load balancing infrastructure in there but I imagine that exists as an open source library as well.

The problem is that Twitch is a bandwidth/processing power problem. It's called free software, not free computers.

Already, gonk is off to a great start. One day we are going to look back with tears in our eyes and nostalgia in our hearts at how our trillion dollar streaming platform started

gonk forever

Team /gonk/ let's make this a reality!

Gonk, I fucking like the name. If this goes anywhere it'll be fucking awesome.

We've fixed that problem with GonkCoin the latest 10 billion dollar shitcoin!

Nigga who /gonk/ here?

>Willingly click on IRL
>WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GIRL STREAMERS SHOWING BOOOOOBS

You are a weird person user.

Also, nobody watches twitch for the gameplay you psychopath.

Any gonk tech support here? Can you check on my partnership application for me?

Nah, there needs to be entire titty-streamer category which is the mirror of Twitch; ban for not showing boobs during stream.

Can I be tech support before any pajeet takes the job?

I do?

Back to the good old days of 2001

Make sure to ban all white women, or possibly all women (maybe allow Korean qts)

There will be a NSFW section for them. They'll be able to get naked and shit if they have a premium account, easy money, better than Twitch.
In the normal section attention whores will get banned.

Just write a program which pipes small pieces (like 2M or something) of video from OBS or something into IPFS and broadcast the hashes of these pieces with IPFS' pubsub. Then write a client which listens to one of these feeds and plays the video snippets sequentially.
There, Video distribution is done.

I'll leave the rest of the community shit to someone else. Don't even bother if it^s not distributed.

>implying anyone on Sup Forums knows how to program this

>open source
>promoting narcissism
Oxymoron

How do we make all the big boy streamers join Gonk guys?

How do you even convince a millionaire like Dr DisrespectWomen to join?

Literally a buffered reader and a few calls to the local IPFS API.

I have a working proof of concept for a webtorrent based streaming service.

It already has a name, a logo and a host so i guess Sup Forums has nothing to offer.

Who's gonna pay for it nerd

I know Java Servlets, when can I start?

the cia and mossad

Our GronkCoin investors of course!!

>amazon paid 15 billions for it

Yeah go ahead host it in your rpi

Because you can't monetize something that's open sourced.

github.com/thegonky/gonk

Submit your logos Sup Forumsentoomen!

and No, I don't have anything else to do.

Just use livestreamer, avoid the garbage twitch website.

>doc
who gives a shit about this pussy in 2018 not like he can ever show is cucked face in font of a cam ever again

Didn't Sup Forums already make one a few years ago? Or was that something else? What did Sup Forums make around 2013-14? It was some kind of program

Oh never mind I was thinking of Tox. fuckin idiot

Yes they do?

Thanks.

Happy to help.

Because nobody likes to host themselves. This basically was the death of XMPP. Well, this and the ridiculous standard.

Like all P2P, it's extremely difficult to scale without servers, due to the asymmetry of home connections, but if you have some servers which can make up the difference it can scale passably well. Universities have been experimenting with so-called peercasting for ages - look up the original Peercast extension to Icecast, and later developments like Alluvium.

What really helps with it is having a codec which is trivially peelable which allows for easy adaptive quality when combined carefully with UDP transports. This is why early experiments used Vorbis (although peeling Vorbis does not yield optimal results). Unfortunately, there are no trivially peelable video codecs. H.264 and H.265 can be made scalable with extra work, however these are covered by extra patents (SVC) and require special work on the encoder side. We did experiments during early development of I2P and results weren't really any better or worse than TCP.

There is no reason you can't hack something together out of a swarming protocol like Bittorrent (don't actually use Bittorrent, it sucks for this), Javascript and WebRTC, however, and a few people have tried to do this. It doesn't yield great results but you could do it ad-free and you wouldn't be able to prevent people streaming porn, etc.

beautiful

you can contribute with your logos.

This

Here, have a logo.

Github page is kind of dead but the site is working.
video.eientei.org/
github.com/eientei/videostreamer

Why not provide it as federated service? People would set up their servers amd each of them would have the catalog of streams from all of the servers, and clicking on one would redirect you or something.

You don't even know the half of it.

Retards have you ever programmed anything in your life? This place is for dumb losers, better not get hopes up.

github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui

I made an hello word program python.

Ok i take it back.

Good. What have you done user? Any progress on tech world than me?

>there are no trivially peelable video codecs
does AV1 have anything on the roadmap in this direction?

interested in why this isn't a realistic idea

OBS is free software

I once typed 'dir' into the wndows prompt.

wow. What happened? Did you hack your neighbour's wifi?

bandwidth and server load

this is my shitty website traffic, live streaming would be this x100 minimum

Yes, that's one of the main points of AV1.

Also, user was a little pessimistic, you can also make decent streaming with vp8/webm , not as trivially as with x264, but still.

The only two current problems are
1. People would need to install and run IPFS to access the streams
2. IPFS pubsub is experimental and easily saturated by a bad actor with enough bandwidth

And that's pretty much it.

What site? Also you forgot to censor cheekyvidya from putty's window title.

would this be it?
cheekyvideos.net/
archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/152089709/#152091358

cheekyvideos.net

Do you have root ssh access allowed? If so, you shouldn't.

>implying I know how to manage a server

I have keys setup, i dont ssh in often.

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While that would work, it's a lot of overhead.
We should consider basing it off of GNUnet instead of IPFS.

Like how GNUSocial works?

We don't need IPFS meme, we can do everything with WebRTC

js-IPFS can run IPFS in the browser with WebRTC. Webtorrents too.

Are you the cheekyforums nigger that gets ad revenue by copying Sup Forums threads as a forum? kys

been using it since years and it's basically the only way of watching Twitch in a non-retarded way

Please add CoC, I want gonk to be a safe space free from shitlords.

I for one welcome Gonk as our new overlord of online streaming. Any news on that logo?

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I really want to make this, been learning a lot about p2p lately..

also, how about having each streamer have a unique p2p network for it's viewers

You don't know shit, ideaguy.

Whats the difference between twitch and just making a video tag in html that links to an http stream?

branding

video eats a lot more bandwidth than you imagine

You do realize that if this did happen and it became successful it would most likely end up like twitch, it would just get bought by one of the big players, Google, Facebook, Amazon ect....

The only way you keep it open source and very community driven is by it not getting too big.

Or make it distributed.

Bandwidth is not that bad. I run a porn video site and bandwidth costs me 150 dollars a month @ 30TB per month.