Tribler roadmap - becoming an open Youtube streaming service ?

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Dear Community,

Should we work towards a Youtube-type of streaming experience?
A Bittorrent-based, self-hosted, less toxic alternative of Youtube?

OR keep close to traditional file sharing experience from July 2001?

Tribler started in April 2005. We had at one point a mix of content: any Youtube video, any Liveleak, and any Bittorrent swarm. All with one unified search algorithm. So we could mix the best of classic Tribler: no website, no DNS dependancy, all Bittorrent swarm. Plus Youtube experience, streaming all their Creative Commons content. Basically, do you want the integrated player back? Youtube content support would bloat the Tribler installer with full Web3 browser, web codecs and Javascript support.

Existing Youtube-focussed projects:
https://invidious.io/screenshots/
https://freetubeapp.io/
https://joinpeertube.org/
https://mediacms.io/

These project do great work. Yet, they are not attack-resilient (e.g. classic web servers, DNS hijacking vunerabilities) and fail to offer our Tor-level privacy.

Please let us know where to go with Tribler!
We got fresh millions in funding till 2033. Let the swarm grow !

[egbertbouman]

We created a experimental version of Tribler featuring integrated MPV video playback for improved streaming. Our initial experiments with an embedded Qt WebView used too many resources, so we instead chose to launch MPV as a lightweight standalone popup window.

You can view our progress here. Please test the early builds using the Windows or Linux binaries and share your feedback here.