Webtorrent HLS

[LoveIsGrief]

Describe the problem to be solved

CLI seeds for HLS streams. I wrote a reseeder for peertube that uses webtorrent. However, I found out that it doesn't work with HLS streams because p2p-media-loader is being used that only uses the webtorrent trackers, but doesn't actually use webtorrents (I might be wrong though).

Describe the solution you would like:

A single torrent for the chunks. It should then be possible to instruct webtorrent to download sequentially or a certain file in the torrent.

Describe alternatives you have considered

• An option for viewers to fallback to using webtorrent files (.files[] in the result from /videos/{id} endpoint)
• A torrent per chunk

[Chocobozzz]

Hello,

I'm sorry but it's out of the scope of PeerTube. If you want to create a CLI script to seed HLS streams, you can try to use p2p-media-loader directly in your library.

[LoveIsGrief]

The script already exists, but had to be written in Python because webtorrent didn't work. It seeds the torrents just find, but the HLS videos just don't work. Webtorrent uses WebRTC and the npm package uses a headless chromium instance which fails (feross/simple-peer#866).

I'd like to contribute bandwidth to peertube without running a full instance of peertube. Is there a way to do that?

[Chocobozzz]

I'd like to contribute bandwidth to peertube without running a full instance of peertube. Is there a way to do that?

Unfortunately no