All EEVblog Videos now available on LBRY - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 12:21:36 am
content: It's a new distributed block chain based content system, check it out:https://lbry.io/lbry://@EEVblogThe developers pulled over all my content from Youtube which took several weeks.

author: hermit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 12:46:37 am
content: "This software is in beta. It may crash, work unreliably, or inadvertently put a curse on your family for generations (a common programming error). "FAIL. WTF? What's the point. I am reluctant to download software that isn't in the official Debian repositories.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 01:47:30 am
content: Quote from: hermit on September 21, 2017, 12:46:37 amNot a FAIL, just unusual honesty. The same is true of much (most?) software you pay for.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 01:49:48 am
content: I hope this is more than just "Must jump on the buzzword-du-jour cart, and today that cart is labelled 'block-chain'".

author: hermit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 02:11:45 am
content: I think most things need to go 'pay for actual usage'. Here in the US the telcos love to sell unlimited plans but cut you off if you actually 'use too much'. Like they are giving Grandma who only checks her email once a week refunds.

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 02:47:19 am
content: I waited for minutes for any video to load. Doesn't seem to work here in Chile.Never mind. I closed the program and restarted it, Seems to work now.

author: hermit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 03:43:36 am
content: I think what bothers me most is that they allude to using your network connection and computer to serve up content but don't state it explicitly. If it is 'block chain' I'd expect to receive credit of some sort in exchange. Again, this isn't spelled out. It said you can charge for content? Can I offset that by uploading more than I download? I have no problem with that, but again, too much that isn't said here. Google doesn't turn up enough to give me an informed opinion either. I'll wait.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 02:27:19 pm
content: Quote from: hermit on September 21, 2017, 03:43:36 amIt took me literally less than 5 seconds to find the FAQ item that answers most of those questions:Quote from:https://lbry.io/faq/host-content

author: hermit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 03:20:14 pm
content: Quote from: Cerebus on September 21, 2017, 02:27:19 pm

author: b_force
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 04:11:39 pm
content: The biggest thing that bothers me.Why do I need to download another program (again) to just see videos?This could be very easily implemented in a web-based environmentIt's even 50MB?

author: kalel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 04:18:19 pm
content: Quote from: b_force on September 21, 2017, 04:11:39 pmI can't say anything about the website at all, but perhaps downloading/uploading the videos (especially uploading) would take too much space for HTML 5 storage? I'm not really sure about the actual necessity.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2017, 04:33:30 pm
content: Quote from: b_force on September 21, 2017, 04:11:39 pmYou've missed the point entirely. It's adistributedsystem - there are no servers as there would be with a "web-based environment" which presupposes web 'servers' and 'clients'. You need another program because none of the ones you currently have understand how to implement the distribution protocol, even if you have zillions that understand how to play the video that is distributed.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 24, 2017, 02:53:02 am
content: What would work great is if it could run over P2P Wifi. Set up a bunch of hotspots in densely populated areas where fast, unlimited Internet is expensive and/or hard to get and it would probably become quite popular.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2017, 02:28:49 am
content: Quote from: Cerebus on September 21, 2017, 04:33:30 pmDoing it browser based shouldn't be impossible, though I'm not sure whether you'd actually want to.

author: Mike04082015
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 27, 2019, 04:36:03 pm
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on September 24, 2017, 02:53:02 amWorse, I think. After I closed the app I looked at task manager and it was still running and doing (stuff?) I found that if I close the app while running a video the video continues. So I worry what this thing is doing when I'm not watching it.Another point ... the warning that my post might not be relevant because it was more than 120 days since the last one was interesting. I see that this thread goes back to 2017! Given that the EEVBlog is one of the very few bits of content on this service and that most of the other stuff is, to say the least, of much lower quality ... what is the point? I'm right up there with most people who have a problem with Google and it's demonstrably evil orientation, but if there is nothing to watch here, what's the point?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 02:39:09 am
content: Quote from: Mike04082015 on June 27, 2019, 04:36:03 pmIt's the old critical mass problem.LBRY isn't sexy enough to get any of the big Youtubers over. Bitchute has been far more successful at that.

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 03, 2020, 06:47:33 pm
content: Quote from: Mr. Scram on November 05, 2017, 02:28:49 amIt is now browser based, too. You can do (most) things with the websitehttp://lbry.tv, with some exceptions, like watching videos which need to be paid. But might be still a good idea to install the app, to support the Bittorent network, which I don't think will the website do on the client side.BTW, if I understand it correctly, anyone can claim a name, if he pays enough LBC. So for @eevblog, which currently has a support of 23,496 LBC, about $723, someone could "steal" the channel, if he pays more, right? I don't know if I like this concept.

author: ebclr
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2020, 09:51:24 pm
content: https://lbry.io/is missing one very important feature, to stream (or rather cast) media from your existing computer or mobile device through your home WiFi network and onto your TV screen. This is very key to the modern mobile world. I hope At some time they will be able to implement this

author: vwestlife
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 09, 2020, 07:07:23 pm
content: lbry.tv has problems with older/lesser-known browsers. In IE11 it comes up totally blank, and in Pale Moon 27.x I can see the site, but when I click on a video I can only hear the audio until I click away from the video to something else, then suddenly the video appears in a floating window.And until they buy the library.tv domain and redirect it to their site, every time someone mentions this site, theymustspell out "L-B-R-Y" in order for people to get to the right place.

author: alxpo
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2020, 12:59:00 pm
content: I played with LBRY several times since the blockchain was created and each time I ended up deleting the wallet, because it was sketchy as frig, and it became more and more sketchy.The main claim of LBRY Inc that the use of the blockchain makes LBRY independent of LBRY Inc is completely destroyed if you look at the mining statistics.Having pessimistic assumptions that:1) "Unknown"="The Evil"2) "The Evil"="LBRY Inc"3) The sentence "Support the LBRY community with this pool!" for the luxor.tech pool athttps://lbry.com/faq/mining-poolsmeans "Luxor.tech belongs to us", we can conclude that ~ 90 percent of mining is controlled by LBRY Inc and they can manipulate the blockchain as they want. No one cared for power over the blockchain and therefore they seized power.This was helped by 2 facts - LBC can be effectively mined by ASIC and this is a specialized algorithm, that is, you need to buy (or develop) an ASIC that can mine LBC and only LBC to compete with LBRY Inc.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 16, 2020, 10:36:25 am
content: Dave, congrats! 4180+ subscribers on LBRY as of now. A huge increase in just a month or so!

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2020, 01:38:52 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on January 16, 2020, 10:36:25 amI wonder if this is being driven by the fact that hardly a week goes by recently without some story of YouBoob's shenanigans hitting the web. Perhaps people (read media consumers) are beginning to think that it's time to reduce their dependency on YouBoob?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2020, 12:17:30 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on January 16, 2020, 10:36:25 amThanks, 9th biggest channel now.I have now redirected eevblog.tv to my LBRY channel.

author: vwestlife
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2020, 06:48:15 pm
content: Keep in mind that as of yet, LBRY does not transcode videos -- what you upload is exactly what your viewers will be watching. That allows higher quality than YouTube, but has several major drawbacks. First, you have to upload in a streaming-compatible format, like H.264 -- so near-lossless professional codecs like ProRes cannot be used. And more importantly, you have to be mindful of what kind of resolutions and bitrates your viewer's devices and Internet connections will be able to handle. So if you upload 4K 60fps video at a mega-high bitrate, it may look beautiful on your end, but a lot of your viewers won't be able to watch it -- and not everyone has unlimited data allowance on their service plan.Also, the lbry.tv site is currently buggy in legacy Firefox and Firefox-based browsers like Pale Moon, and doesn't work at all in IE.I've created a LBRY channel and uploaded a few test videos to it (https://lbry.tv/@VWestlife:b), but I won't be using it on a regular basis until they work on resolving these issues.I'm also keeping an eye on FloatPlane (created by LinusTechTips) and StoryFire (created by McJuggerNuggets) to see how those platforms develop. For example, Boogie2988 already has 100,000+ subscribers on StoryFire -- that's impressive.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2020, 11:40:37 pm
content: Quote from: vwestlife on January 21, 2020, 06:48:15 pmSuch quality is rarely a requirement content creators. If you are that fusses over quality you aren't going to be using Youtube to begin with.QuoteNeither of those seem to be a Youtube competitor. FloatPlane is definitely not, in their own words.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2020, 04:45:07 am
content: Quote from: vwestlife on January 21, 2020, 06:48:15 pmThe "master quality" sounds great for videophiles, even if only a small percentage of content would actually make good use of it.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 23, 2020, 10:35:25 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 23, 2020, 04:45:07 amMost (all?) of the top channels on LBRY at the moment are using the Youtube sync features which gets the video from Youtube, so these won't be master upload quality.Vimeo has long been the platform for filmmakers to showcase their videos in full resolution, and all of my videos on there are direct uploads of my master files. Again, not master quality on Vimeo either, but the compression is much less aggressive than Youtube.

author: jancelot
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2020, 12:37:00 am
content: @EEVblog are you posting new content to LBRY.tv or it's just a backup? Why did you do that?About processing quality, Marques Brownlee made a video about it:

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 22, 2020, 10:42:25 am
content: Quote from: jancelot on March 22, 2020, 12:37:00 amLike all Youtubers on LBRY I let LBRY automatically pull my videos over from Youtube. Quality is still 1080p but a reduced bitrate.Why? becuase it's vastly easier. It's completely hands off and it does it all automatically including the video, description, title and thumbnail.