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https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/streameth-decentralized-video-cms/
Streameth is an open source video CMS that allows event organizers to distribute decentralized, censorship resistant video content.
This project comes out of a collaboration between Livepeer and Ethereum foundation to help web3 communities decouple themselves from centralized video platforms.
In this talk, we will explore why streameth was created, its early usage in various community events and how we plan to evolve the tool.
Speaker(s): Pablo Voorvaart
Skill level: Beginner
Track: Opportunity & Global Impact
Keywords: content distribution,opensource,
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Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers.
Devcon 6 was held in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct 11 - 14, 2022.
Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation, with the support of our sponsors. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
A
A
And
today,
I'm
going
to
speak
about
streamies,
a
project
I've
been
working
on
with
the
ethereum
foundation
and
the
guys
from
life
here
it's
a
project
that
we're
using
right
now
to
stream
Defcon.
So
if
you
go
to
live.defcon.org,
you
can
actually
follow
all
the
sessions
there,
so
yeah
I'll
be
speaking
about
what
treatment
is,
how
it
works
and
why
we
need
stream.
A
A
So
streaming
is
a
self-hosted
application
that
event
organizers
can
use
to
host
their
virtual
events.
Like
I
said
streaming
was
born
out
of
a
collaboration
between
ethereum
Foundation
life
here
and
myself,
and
it
all
started
with
ethereum
Foundation
wanting
to
decouple
this
term
from
YouTube,
and
they
wanted
to
do
three
simple
things
at
first,
so
our
current
version
of
Streamys
those
these
three
simple
things
fairly
good,
I,
think
so
stream.
A
So
when
we
started
designing
the
the
application,
we
decided
that
we
wanted
to
mimic
kind
of
how
the
application
looked
like.
We
wanted
to
mimic
it
to
what
a
real
event
is.
So
we
designed
everything
around
rooms
and
sessions
right,
so
one
event
has
multiple
rooms
and
one
room
has
multiple
sessions,
and
so
then
from
then
on,
we
started
building
streamies.
A
The
first
thing
we
focused
on
was
was
on
live
streaming,
so
each
room
can
have
one
live
stream
through
through
the
whole
application.
You
can
concurrently
stream
on
multiple
rooms.
So
today,
at
inline
in
Defcon
we're
concurrently
live
streaming.
Nine,
multiple
rooms,
which
I
think
is
pretty
cool.
We
also
focus
on
uptime
and
we're
building
a
failover
mechanism
into
our
playback
systems
that
allows
a
single
room
to
ingest
two
sources
that
have
the
same
content
to
fail
over
to
one
or
the
other.
A
You
might
be
wondering
what
we
use
instead
of
YouTube,
and
that
is
of
course
very
interesting
and
that's
where
life
here
life
here
comes
in
stream.
It
is
actually
provider
agnostic,
which
means
that
we
don't
do
any
of
the
broadcasting
ourselves
right.
We
just
we
are
just
a
front-end
that
hooks
into
Whatever
video
provider
we
want.
In
our
case
we
build
a
solution
by
default
on
top
of
life
here,
which
is
an
awesome
protocol
that
some
of
you
may
know.
A
A
So
yeah,
it's
pretty
cool
I'll
go
more
in
depth
on
why
we
chose
live
here
later,
but
you
can
imagine
it's
a
protocol
built
on
ethereum,
so
decentralization
censorship
assistant
and
all
the
nice
things
about
decentralization
right
and
so,
like
I
said,
the
application
is
provided
agnostic,
but
there's
already
a
out
of
the
box
solution
that
integrates
with
life
here.
So
you
can
start
up
Streamys
a
set
up
your
lifer
account
and
start
streaming
decentralized.
Then
we
also
put
a
lot
of
focus
into
the
schedule.
A
This
is
because
stream,
it
is
not
only
something
you
can
use
to
live
stream,
but
it's
actually
something
that
we
wanna
that
event
organizers
want
to
use
to,
like
I,
said,
replicate
the
the
event
experience
experience,
but
virtually
right.
So
the
schedule,
as
always,
is
a
very
important
part
of
any
event,
especially
events
like
Defcon,
where
you
have
a
lot
of
sessions
in
another
rooms.
You
kind
of
want
to
automate
the
process
of
scheduling
everything
and
showing
the
information
in
nice
in
a
nice
accessible
way.
A
So
we
built
a
schedule
by
the
way
I'm
talking
about
the
features,
then
I
will
do
a
live.
Demo
and
showcase
the
application,
because
I
know
it
might
be
a
bit
difficult
to
imagine
what
I'm
saying
right
now
so
yeah.
This
guyo
is
a
very
central
part
of
of
streamies.
We
build
multiple
Integrations
with
different
schedule.
Providers
Defcon
is
using
pre-talks
as
a
schedule
manager
which
is,
and
a
pre-talk
is
an
open
source
tool
for
for
management
that
the
Devcon
team
is
using
to
organize
all
the
sessions
and
and
all
the
rooms.
A
A
Then,
of
course,
like
we
said
On
Demand
with
the
playback.
That
is
also
crucial
for
the
for
the
event
organizers.
Actually,
most
of
the
views
for
events
happen
during
on
demand
playback,
so
a
live.
Video
don't
usually
get
too
many
views,
but
then,
when
you,
when
you
saw
the
video
and
you
show
it
on
demand
because
of
the
content,
we're
showing
here
in
the
stocks,
is
very
interesting,
you
know
people
go
and
watch
it
so
yeah.
A
This
is
also
currently
all
the
on-demand
video
that
we
are
hosting
on
different
stream
with
instances
it's
also
living
on
their
life.
Your
network,
they
recently
developed
their
video
on
demand
features.
So
it's
working
very
nicely
and
I'll
also
Show
an
example
of
a
streaming
instance
where
we
used
video
on
demand.
A
It
was
at
East
Berlin
last
month,
it
worked
very
very
nicely,
so
I'll
show
a
demo
of
that
as
well
and
finally,
plugins
and
I
think
this
is
the
most
interesting
feature,
and
so
the
software
architecture
that
we
built
was
taught
to
contain
this
plug-in
feature
right.
So
essentially
we
in
the
long
term.
Of
course,
we
want
different
protocols
to
build
plugins
into
streaming
so
that
they
can
integrate
their
features
into
the
application
right.
So,
for
instance,
we
are
working
with
radical
to
integrate
radical
drips
and
that
will
allow
to
I.
A
Don't
know
if
you
guys
know
radical
drips,
but
it's
basically
a
a
product
that
allows
to
have
tipping
on
web
interfaces.
So
you
could
have
a
streaming
stream
instance
where
you're
live
streaming
an
event,
and
then
you
have
the
radical
drips,
plugin
and
so
users
of
that
viewers
of
that
event
could
donate
directly
to
the
speakers,
which
I
think
is
pretty
cool
right,
so
the
plugin
architecture
is
there.
Now
we
need
to
develop
the
ecosystem
and
you
know
bring
people
in
to
develop
this
plugins.
A
For
us,
oh-
and
this
is
the
slide
where
I
show
the
live
demo,
so
I'm
gonna
yeah,
yes,
so
this
is
the
stream
instance
that
we
use
for
a
Defcon,
and
we
can
see
there
that
the
biggest
buffering,
because
the
Wi-Fi
isn't
the
best
in
the
world
but
yeah.
So,
like
I,
said
we
are
live
streaming
through
life
here.
This
is
the
main
stage,
as
you
guys
can
see.
So,
even
though
network
connections
are
pretty
it's
working,
fine
right
so
Props
to
the
live
routine.
A
In
this
case,
we
also
added
a
YouTube
link,
so
the
good
thing
was
about
streaming.
Is
that
because
it's
an
open
source
application,
each
instance
can
be
adjusted
to
the
needs
of
the
event
right.
So
for
this,
in
this
case
for
Defcon
a,
we
also
wanted
to
include
a
YouTube
stream
for
a
you
know
to
to
have
the
maximum
reach,
and
so
we
have
we're
streaming
both
on
library
and
YouTube
and
with
other
with
other
added
this
nice
switcher
in
the
bottom.
A
So
you
can
switch
between
like
I
said
then
the
schedule
for
this
instance.
We
build
the
schedule
into
a
nice
navigation
bar
on
the
right
panel
of
the
page.
You
can
kind
of
look
through
all
the
talks
so
yeah
when
I
refresh
you
guys
can
see
that
the
schedule
kind
of
synced
to
the
latest
hour,
and
so
this
should
be
me.
Oh
no
I'm!
This
is
talk
five.
A
And,
let's
see
if
the
VOD
video
like
go
check
it
out,
watch
the
etherlin.org
and
it's
very
good
content.
So
yeah
like
I,
said
at
the
beginning,
three
basic
features
but
very
powerful
and
you
know
very
effective
as
well,
because
the
main
goal
was
to
decouple
Eve
events
and
community
events
of
centralized
platforms
like
YouTube
right
so
I.
Think,
even
though
it's
nothing
fancy
we're
not
tweets,
we
don't
do
VR,
we
don't
do
3d
nothing.
A
A
No,
why
we
built
this
and
why
we
think
it's
important
I
think
that's
it
yeah
yeah
most
of
the
web
3
events
are
being
broadcasted
using
centralized
providers,
and
this
sucks
a
lot
and
it's
not
just
because
I
say
that
it
actually
sucks
like
we
all
know,
YouTube
and
twitch,
don't
realign
with
a
core
values
of
decentralization
that
we
you
know
that
we're
all
here
for
and
that
we
believe
in
so
stream.
It
is,
you
know,
should
be
a
good
first
step
to
help
these
communities
decouple
from
from
these
Services
right.
A
So
yeah
here,
I
I
put
two
tweets
and
the
first
one
was
at
East
Barcelona
and
the
live
stream
was
taken
down
because
they
had
some
copyright
issues,
which
is
usually
I,
mean
if
event
production
is
pretty
hard
and
you
have
all
kinds
of
audio.
You
have
all
kinds
of
music,
and
sometimes
some
music
segments
with
copyright
can
slip
into
the
production
and
then
your
whole
stream
gets
taken
down.
So
that's
not
good.
A
So
if
Barcelona
had
one
day
without
streaming
and
then
a
there's
another
tweet
about
a
YouTube
account
that
went
got
taken
down
because
they
were
talking
about
web
free
content
on
YouTube,
so
yeah
there
were
some
disputes
and
YouTube
kind
of
banned
their
their
account
right.
So
what
is
the
solution?
A
B
A
We're
going
to
take
after
Defcon
is
to
make
sure
the
application
is
lightweight
and
we
can
use
it
and
and
deploy
it
in
in
one
of
these
two
layers
and
the
second
solution
to
the
problem
is
using
decentralized
and
with
the
providers
like
life
here
since
life
here
is
a
decentralized
layer
of
note
and
the
content
cannot
be
really
stopped,
even
if
the
government
or
the
platform
any
platform
says
so
right.
The
next
problem
that
arises
from
using
centralized
providers
is
the
intellectual
property.
A
This
is
kind
of
tied
to
the
censorship
prone
issue,
and
so,
like
we
said,
copyright
Claims
can
result
in
streams
being
taken
down,
tennis
being
banned
and
users
being
demonetized
within
Wonder,
and
also
it's
not
only
that
they're
taking
down
the
streams,
but
is
the
lack
of
transparency
in
their
process
to
decide
which
streams
get
taken
down
and
which
content
is
being
shown
or
not
right.
So
there's
really
an
ethical
discussion
around
what
content
are.
We
being
allowed
to
see
right
so
using
decentralized
Services.
A
We
then
really
solve
this
content,
because
there's
no
moderation
right
but
I
think
we're
heading
in
the
right
direction
in
regards
to
not
allowing
this
one
Central
entity
to
decide
what
we
can
see
or
what
we
can't
see
right
next
will
be
the
high
fee
to
connect
creators,
and
this
is
also
very
interesting,
especially
recently.
A
twitch
I
think
increased
their
this
year,
they're
taking
from
from
content
creators
from
I
think
it
was
15
to
30
percent
or
something
like
this,
because
these
centralized
providers
actually
super
expensive
to
run
right.
A
So
tweet
is
even
though
the
free
is
the
content
is
free.
It's
Mega,
expensive,
to
run
an
operation
like
twitch,
so
in
the
long
term
they
are,
they
have
two
solutions
and
one
solution
is
to
increase
the
share.
They
take
him
from
the
creators.
The
other
solution
is
to
display
ads
right,
so
yeah,
moving
on
to
a
decentralized
solution
like
streamies
and
also
live
here,
will
basically
allow
us
to
give
back.
A
The
monetization
is
a
power
to
the
content
creator
and
because
then,
if
according
to
create,
is
using
live
here
to
distribute
the
content,
the
content
is
actually
theirs
right.
So
he
is
then
able
to
decide
how
he
monetizes
the
content,
also
building
on
top
of
the
plugin
system
that
we
that
I
was
talking
about
earlier.
A
A
A
Yes,
then,
we
have
Wesley
efer
he's
in
there.
Oh
I,
don't
know
if
Akio
is
here,
I,
don't
think
so.
He's
watching
me
on
the
stream
Akio.
What's
up
he's
the
designer
and
then
I'm
there
with
the
pen
that
I
set
for
the
merch,
it's
my
pfp
for
the
Emergency
I
didn't
change
it
so
yeah
the
panda
and
that's
me
and
you
don't
have
to
clap
yeah
so
yeah.
It
was
awesome
working
with
these
guys,
really
great
things.
We
used
it
at
devconnect.
That
was
the
first
demo
that
we
used.
A
It
was
awesome,
lots
of
traction.
We
hacked
a
demo
in
like
a
week,
and
so
that's
why
I'm
saying
it's
a
great
team,
because
we
didn't
really
plan
the
development
it
was
just.
It
was
really
a
decentralized
development
effort
because
everyone
was
doing
its
own
thing
right
so,
but
we
go
to
devconnect.
It
was
awesome.
We
got
great
numbers
on
viewership
and
no
box,
I.
Think
so
great.
Then
we
went
to
Ether
Lane
and
you
know
we
redid
the
design
and
we
call
this
stream
stream
is
2.0.
A
We
added
dark
mode,
which
is
actually
the
best
feature
in
the
whole
application:
the
schedule
and
super
good
there.
Really.
We
had
no
bugs
and
I
I
know
this
for
sure
and
and
overall
we're
super
happy
with
it
and
then
yeah
Defcon,
which
is
a
great,
so
yeah,
and
how
this
feature
look
like
we're:
gonna
focus
on
usability,
we're
going
to
focus
on
plugins
and
we're
going
to
focus
on
embracing
the
web
3
ecosystem,
like
we
said
and
yeah,
and
this
is
kind
of
like
our
vision.
A
A
A
So
this
library
is
pretty
good,
so
I
was
a
pretty
early
Community
member
and
I've
been
using
it
in
the
early
days.
It
had
some
issues.
So
since
the
beginning
I
come
from
the
web
to
world
like
production
world
and
you
always
have
failovers
and
when
I
started
using
knife
period,
I
was
like
hey.
We
need
to
build
a
failover
here.
So
that's
why
we
have
built
in
a
failover
mechanism
into
all
of
our
players
right.
So,
on
the
one
hand,
life
here
got
really
good
already.
B
A
Yeah
lifer:
oh
there's
a
bit
of
a
more
complex
question
because
you
have
the
life
of
the
protocol
and
then
you
have
live
for
your
studio,
but
basically
live
here
studio
and
that's.
What
we
are
using
has
its
own
CDN
and
agency
is
pretty
good,
so
you
shouldn't
be
have
an
issue.
If
you
have
people
from
around
the
world
trying
to
watch
your
stream
like
I
said
performance
is
really
good.
East
Berlin
we
had
a
bunch
of
people
watching
that's
kind
of
bunch
of
people
watching
here
you
know
it's
Defcon.