We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Peertube is f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn't going to be able to manage the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.

It's not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Everyone doesn't have to host their own instance.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Everyone doesn’t have to host their own instance.

They don't, but how long do you think a free instance is going to last when it starts seeing serious volume. Video storage in the cloud is expensive AF.

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, video storage is what prevents corporations from creating YouTube competitors, and it also prevents decentralized users from competing

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

and it also prevents decentralized users from competing

It doesn't have to. PT is just using webtorrent. Make a desktop client that links into existing PT instances for discovery and indexing, but have the DHT pull the files right off the person's home box. Every content creator makes a buddy, they pin each other's content. Every content creator stores their own stuff + 1 person.

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