<p>While it is easy to embed a PeerTube video on a website or social media, the same cannot be said for playlists. We want to rework the <strong>embed and display of playlists</strong> on third party websites.</p> <p>We also want to <strong>allow two clips of the same video to be displayed in a playlist</strong>. Combined with the ability to extract a specific piece of video in a playlist, <strong>playlists will thus become very useful remixing tools</strong>, for example for educational purposes.</p> <p>Plugins allow anyone to contribute to new PeerTube features by coding them into PeerTube, and offer them to instance administrators. We want to <strong>improve the plugin system</strong> to offer more interaction possibilities.</p> <p>In order to put ourselves in their contributors' shoes, we are going to create a few plugins of our own, for example one to <strong>display information over a video to annotate it</strong> at a specific point in the viewing process.</p> <p>Finally, we want to work on <strong>selecting a set of plugins to showcase</strong> them on joinpeertube.org.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge of live streaming on PeerTube is to <strong>get the live stream to be peer-to-peer</strong>. After extensive testing, we believe this is possible.</p> <p>By using the HLS technology that has been built into the PeerTube video player since version 1.3, we believe we can <strong>create a live stream with one minute of lag between streamers and viewers</strong>.</p> <p>We want to lay the technological foundation for this live stream feature, so <strong>this first version of PeerTube Live will be minimalist</strong>. There will be no stream captation tools, no built-in chat, no react emojis...</p> <p>However, we want to make sure that <strong>once the live stream is over, the video will be processed and added to the creator's channel</strong>, with every requirement for proper federation checked.</p>
<strong>Framasoft</strong> (that's us!) is a French non-for-profit organization created in 2004, dedicated <strong>to popular education</strong> on digital matters. Our small association (under 40 members, under 10 employees) is known to have made the <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org">"De-google-ify the Internet" project</a>, offering 34 ethical and alternative online tools.
Our association creates digital tools (services, courses and resources, software) to equip the people who participate in a "contribution society". Amongst these, we lead the development of federated software PeerTube and Mobilizon (an upcoming alternative to Facebook events, pages and groups).
Throughout this development period we will be improving the user experience and interface of PeerTube to provide more clarity and power at every level of use.
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