Video transcoding: can be mitigated using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/remote-runners">remote transcoding</a> by remote workers
Making it easier to access content, sharing power and responsibilities, opening up to contributions, generalizing live broadcasting thanks to peer-to-peer... PeerTube’s v3 aims to consolidate it as an alternative to Google-Youtube and Facebook-Live that is more and more convivial.
The success of this fundraising depends only on you: <strong>we need you</strong> to raise awareness about this roadmap, so we can share our enthousiasm about Peertube's v3.
The advantage of YouTube (and other platforms) is its video catalog: from knitting tutorials to Minecraft constructions through videos of kittens or holidays... you can find everything!
Setting up a new livestream is like uploading a new video. The default setting will get you one PeerTube URL, one video container (with description and thumbnail and tags...), and one RTMP Key for each of your livestreams. This setting is useful if you want to host multiple lives simultaneously on you channel. When your live is finished, it will be replaced by the replay (if both the instance admin and the content creator have activated this setting).
The more the video catalogue is varied, the more people are interested, the more videos are uploaded... but hosting videos from all over the world is (very, very) expensive!
With PeerTube, <strong>you can choose the hoster of your videos according to his terms of services</strong>, his moderation policy, his federation choices... As you don't have a tech giant facing you, you might be able to talk with you hoster if you ever have a problem, a need, or something you want.