Oddbean

What if there was a piece of software, you record a video, run a command, and it created a torrent for the video and then sent a nostr note out with the magnet link? What do you think of that idea? I ask because I'm building it slowly but surely as we speak.

I like it. You definitely need some sort of player application available on the F-Droid store though. Either that or maybe get clients such as Primal to integrate the ability to download torrent files to play the videos. I guess my biggest question would be what happens to the video if the creator decides they don't want to host it anymore. Because videos seem like one of those things that you watch one time and you would not continue seeding.

Yep, any torrent streaming application will do. Popcorntime works on android, but it comes with a pirate movie catalog built in. I might make a bounty for a fork of it that just plays links and has no catalog, I don't know yet. What would be best is of course a utility tthat opens the stream in your media player of choice, popcorntime has a built in media player, but it would work. I don't know if you've ever used Scrambled Exif, it's an application that strips exif data from images before sharing them, no UI, just share to it and then it opens the share dialog again, something that worked like that that just had a dialog open up asking which media player to stream to. I'm not an android developer. For desktop there's peerflix, there's also a popcorntime client that doesn't have the catalog anymore as that's fetched remotely but it can still stream magnet links just fine. What happens to the video... Same thing that happens if a host doesn't want to host anymore. Ultimately hosting costs money. "Free" hosts make their money in other ways. They censor, they delete old content. I would think a person who has a personal interest in their content being available would be more adamant about ensuring that, especially since all it takes is a seedbox. You can rent seedboxes if you want to pay for hosting. The goal isn't to ensure perpetual availability, as that is impossible. The goal is to make it easy for content creators to host and share videos without complex setups, and with nostr that includes a route to monetization which is spectacular, it's a big problem with every other approach to self hosting video content.

Yeah I thought so too. I'm big on composability, and I've never been keen on every social type client needing it's own image viewer, media player built in, I like to click something and have it open in it's own thing, I already have a dedicated media player on my machine. And I'm big on leveraging existing tools to solve problems. I'm also not big on web apps, I loathe them. Actually I was brainstorming with @SimplifiedPrivacy.com Podcast and came up with the idea trying to help him solve a problem and loved the idea so much I started working on it. I haven't talked much about it with anyone outside of that and I wanted to have it done a few months ago, but I've got the software right now to a point where it's doing all the nostr stuff, I've got the options and command line arguments specced out and partially implemented, now I just have to interface with a torrent daemon and do the torrent stuff, creating torrents, seeding, connecting to remote daemons over RPC, publishing to trackers and DHT, that whole part. Once that's done and it is working I'm gonna publish it and begin shilling it here.