DTube Is Broken Now Too?

ura-soul (75) in dtube • 7 years ago

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Is DTube working for anyone else at the moment? I am not able to watch any of the videos I have attempted to watch there today.
I have just uploaded a powerful documentary about child abuse in Hollywood - that is censored on Youtube, but it won't play in DTube.

Anyone know of anything that can be done to improve the situation?

Thanks,
Ura Soul

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7 years ago by ura-soul (75)

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surfyogi (65) · 7 years ago

You can ask @heimindanger about what kind of hosting he's got going, with the 25% of rewards pool he is collecting on dtube videos ;-)

I chatted him up on the steemit chat; he'll talk to people directly I think.
I have same experience, and I've had to abandon it for time being.

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ura-soul (75) · 7 years ago

I did manage to get my video to play earlier, so it is at least not totally broken - but there are clearly serious issues to be resolved. I left him a message in chat, we shall see.

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titusfrost (73) · 7 years ago

I have not been able to upload there lately at all.

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ura-soul (75) · 7 years ago

I'll try another video shortly to test it, the last one I tried was quite big and did eventually work - it just took a couple of hours after I uploaded it before it played back correctly.

btw, i notice that you are only voting for a small number of steemit witnesses, it would be really helpful if you would add me to your list there - witness votes are weighted like normal votes are, since you have some Steem Power built up, a vote from you would make a good difference to my campaign and once I am 'voted in' I can start to help fix up Steemit to some extent - maybe eventually doing things that help services like Dtube (witness powers are somewhat limited in that regard, but they do get heard more than average users). cheers for your support here anyway! My witness application post is here.

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titusfrost (73) · 7 years ago

I just voted for you as witness. I wish you luck with that and thank you for explaining what a "witness" is in your post so clearly as I barely had any idea. Now I get it.

Cheers, and keep up the good work.

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truth-be-told (58) · 7 years ago

One thing I'm having some issues with is simply adding comments to any blog. It seems to just "hang" there processing. Not sure what was up with that.

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skytrex (59) · 7 years ago

I tried to watch a vid yesterday, but it wouldnt play...

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jyarf (30) · 7 years ago

So sad that this site is completely broken. I think newer videos work but all of my old videos will not play. I personally have abandoned using it. I wish this had not been such an epic fail. It had so much potential.

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ura-soul (75) · 7 years ago

I have since learned that Dtube only holds videos in storage for 14 days (afaik). After that they are deleted, apparently due to the cost of storing them. Youtube didn't actually make a profit for most of it's life - probably for the same reason. DTube's operator did state that videos would be stored for longer at some point - but obviously that hasn't happened yet. Dlive does at least play the videos back reliably right after they are uploaded, which DTube is having problems doing.

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truthforce (66) · 7 years ago

Half of the videos I upload to dtube don't load for anyone or myself. I even started making them smaller. There must be some issues on their end for receiving the upload or something with their server.

Weeks later I still can't get some of my videos to play.

Another alternative you may want to check out if you already weren't using it, BitChute and vid.me. I seem to be getting about the same amount of views on BitChute vs Youtube. I made both brand new accounts for it so was surprised to see that.

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ura-soul (75) · 7 years ago

Ok, thanks - yes I am aware of both of those sites. I haven't had time to really use them much.

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sift666 (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

To tell the truth nothing on D-tube has ever worked for me so I never click on D-tube links - here in NZ it just seems to buffer...

But having said that I just clicked on your Open Secret link on D-tube to see what happened and to my astonishment it seems to be playing fine - I don't have time to watch it all, but tried it out in three places and all worked fine. First D-vid I've ever had play, so I'd say D-tube is working!

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truth-be-told (58) · 7 years ago

Just went there (https://dtube.video) now...seems to be working for me.

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neo-wiza (51) · 7 years ago

Oh great, another reason for Steemit price downfall

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wakeupnd (68) · 7 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they are running into bandwidth problems and their ISP is throttling them down.

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ura-soul (75) · 7 years ago

DTube runs using a distributed network of P2P type servers, as I understand, so in theory if some of them fail then the rest can pick up the slack.

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wakeupnd (68) · 7 years ago

Ah ok, then I would assume there's some bottlenecks in the system like not enough servers in the high demand regions or the video your watching is only on a server in China and you're in the States. Stuff like that is common problems with distributed networks.

Or heck they could just be getting DDOS like Steemit has been going through lately.

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alidanish786 (51) · 7 years ago

yes I was also facing the same problem friend..now I am relaxed that others are also facing same issue after reading your post..thanks to share..

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