DTube has Alzheimer's disease? -> IPFS Links not working and Blockchain errors
Hmm ... how do I start..
After a while @ DTube I noticed some disturbing side effects.
First of all: There seems no way to take a video of your own DTube channel. Why is that so?
Now to the bigger issues:
I uploaded quite some videos, however I noticed that 99% of them did not play anymore after around 9 days. This is not a browser error or bad connection! The videos simply can't be found anymore in the IPFS network.
If you have similar problems try this:
- open a non working video of on you channel
- click on "Edit"
- click on "Advanced"
- copy the string in "IPFS 480p Video Hash"
- open a new tab and type in: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/hash
e.g.: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/ QmQg45UTvEK7duCjnaoaxsRETtd4QLZE1BqnPL3WDsQhdd (this is one of my non working videos - remove the space infront of the "Qm" - it would have auto-linked it)
You will see that nothing happens. If you try this with one of your working videos, it will start playing right away.
My theory:
This means the node the video was uploaded to is gone and there is no other node in IPFS holding the video.
There is a simple solution: Make my own note with "ipfs-go". There I can add my own videos and watch them at dTube. As long this (my) node is running the video will be available. If I have e.g. a root-server I can move the videos there using "ipfs get …". Actually I did this and it works like a charm.
And now there is the next issue. Even if I add the video again to the IPFS network and host them on my own node it's not possible to change the video-id's for the broken videos on dTube. I can try but will always get a "Blockchain Error". Why? Because in the FAQ is written, that I can change it only 7 days after uploading? Again: Why? Since I can't remove videos from my dTube channel, I get more and more "zombie-/ghost-" videos :/ This really sucks...
Thee next issue:
I add a video in 480p and 1080p to my IPFS node. File format is the usual *.mp4 H.264/MPEG-4, so it will play on any PC, even Apple (err sorry for the joke). So I set up the Blockchain entry and add the Block via dTube to get the video visible. To check a click on the video and - nothing?! I click "edit", "advanced", copy the 480p hash and open it via https://ipfs.io/ipfs/... and the video plays right away! Funny fact: It starts also to play in the same moment at dTube?! It looks somehow that it needs a bit kick start by opening it on ipfs.io? I guess it’s a very annoying bug, because I get comments, that my videos don't play. I check with my PC and mobile phone and they play. Sometime right away, sometimes I have to request the hash via ipfs.io.
Please comment – It’s impossible that I’m the only one here struggling with those issues.
sincerely yours,
Martin
PS: sorry for the humble english - it's not my native language
Jupp, gleiches Problem bei mir. Nach x Tagen sind die Videos von IPFS verschwunden. Dabei steht in den offiziellen Posts, dass die Videos beim Anbieter ipfsstore.it für 4,75 Jahre gespeichert werden.
Mein Problem
Hmm .. das ist schon nervig ... vor allem, wenn man (wie ich) die "angesagten" Videos eher nicht schaut...
Hi, Martin.
I've got all the same problems as you. This is a pity! Hope the problems will be fixed in near future..
Hey, im not sure if this will help, but here is the link for Dtube chat on Discord, perhaps you can let them know about this issue, and may be they have a solution...
Go here: https://discord.gg/pturZJ
Oh - I'll check that out.
Need to register @ Discord first - never used that actually ...
yeah, its a great tool to chat with people and get helpful information... let me know if the link i sent you expires, i'll send you a new one :)
yea it already expired ... can you send the invite again please?
https://discord.gg/BtcTCp
thanks a lot! I'm in ;)
It appears videos that don't earn revenue get deleted after so many days. I've had the same issue. I read an article last night where the developer states that videos that end up with zero dollars and zero cents don't get permanently stored and this is the cause of this problem: https://steemit.com/dtube/@heimindanger/dtube-0-2-faster-to-serve-videos-stronger-to-resist-censorship
The only videos I have that wont play anymore are the ones that didn't earn any revenue, so the developer is serious. That's just the way the platform was designed, and likely was done this way to keep from indexing junk or spam videos. Or as the developer seems to assert, videos that many find controversial and might not want on the DTube platform.
I dont do anything controversial, just gaming videos. But the lack of getting paying upvotes killed several of my videos anyway.
The platform isn't perfect either. One of my videos never played at all! It simply did not work. In that particular case I think its exactly what you stated, the node that held the video is gone.
Do you have a link to that article? Thanks.
He states it in the article I linked to above. Videos that don't earn money, don't get indexed it seems. The bigger problem is the fact that DTube deletes the majority of videos within a week of posting them as well. But that I read in a separate article, and dont have the link. I stopped posting to DTube for now, they just delete everything I post within a matter of days, not worth it. They need to find a better way to retain videos.