Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.

Here are the stats

Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB

I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.

Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I’ve never seen any stats while watching on a browser or the iOS app. Where did you get those numbers?

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      2 months ago

      On a browser the stats are hidden behind the text “1 peer” on the bottom right of the player, next to the volume icon. When you hover over “1 peer” the stats will appear.

      Haven’t seen this in the android app either.

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        1 month ago

        Oh that’s true. When I watch something from the featured channels (i.e. something everyone else cares about, but I have zero interest in), there’s an upload download counter etc. However, when I watch something that I actually want to click, I see none of that.

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      2 months ago

      Considering how often people try to retort “BuT WhAt aBoUt tHe bAnDwIdTh cOsTs” whenever it’s mentioned as a YouTube alternative, it seems like almost nobody realizes that.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah. Because if it was hosted the same way lemmy is (with storage of posts across all servers once they federate) it would be a storage and bandwidth nightmare.