Peertube

About Peertube

PeerTube is video-sharing software developed by Framasoft, a French non-profit. Its homepage describes it as a tool for building your own video hosting website on a web server, and for connecting independently run sites into a shared network. Each site is built, managed, and moderated by its owner, so moderation policies vary from one platform to another. The homepage also says PeerTube does not depend on advertising and does not track users, and that the project is free and created for non-commercial purposes.

The mobile apps let users browse channels and videos from across the connected network in one interface, watch with quality settings and subtitles, download videos to watch offline, and publish or edit videos from a smartphone. Peer-to-peer broadcasting is described as a way to reduce server bandwidth overload when a video becomes popular.

Key features

• Install on a web server to run your own video hosting website
• Connect independent platforms into a federated network using ActivityPub
• Mobile apps for browsing channels and videos across the network
• Download videos to watch offline, without a connection
• Publish, edit metadata, and view statistics from a smartphone
• Player with quality settings, subtitles, chapters, and full-screen mode
• Peer-to-peer broadcasting intended to reduce load when videos go viral

Peertube at a glance