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@@ -71,15 +71,13 @@ with a `Content-Range` HTTP header.
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## If a client requests each chunk of a video through HTTP, will the server be overloaded?
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-Not really. Reverse proxies like Nginx handle very well requests of static
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-files. In my tests, it can send chunks at 10MB/s without consuming more than 5%
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-of CPU on a very small VPS.
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+Not really. Reverse proxies like Nginx handle static file requests very well. In my tests, it can send chunks at 10MB/s without consuming more than 5% CPU on a very small VPS.
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## Will an index of all the videos of servers you follow be too large for small servers?
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-In our benchmarks, 1,000,000 videos takes around 2GB of storage on PostgreSQL.
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-We think it is acceptable for a video platform.
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+In our benchmarks, 1,000,000 videos consume around 2GB of PostgreSQL storage.
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+We think that is acceptable for a video platform.
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## Which container formats can I use for the videos I want to upload?
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@@ -94,13 +92,13 @@ and FLV formats when transcoding is enabled on their instance.
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It's not officially supported, but you can try the `update-host` script: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/maintain-tools?id=update-hostjs
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-## Why do we have to put our Twitter username in PeerTube configuration?
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+## Why do we have to put our Twitter username in the PeerTube configuration?
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You don't have to: we set a default value if you don't have a Twitter account.
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We need this information because Twitter requires an account for links share/videos embed on their platform.
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-## How video views are calculated?
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+## How are video views counted?
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Your web browser sends a view to the server after 30 seconds of playback. If a video is less than 30 seconds in length, a view is sent after 75% of the video. After giving a view, that IP address cannot add another view in the next hour.
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Views are buffered, so don't panic if the view counter stays the same after you watched a video.
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@@ -122,12 +120,12 @@ So you would need:
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Yes you can, but you won't be able to send data to users that watch the video in their web browser.
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The reason is they connect to peers through WebRTC whereas your BitTorrent client uses classic TCP/UDP.
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-To check if your BitTorrent client supports WebTorrent you can see this issue: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/369
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+You can check if your BitTorrent client supports WebTorrent in this issue: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/369
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## Why host on GitHub and Framagit?
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-The project has initially been hosted on GitHub by Chocobozzz. A full migration to [Framagit](https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/PeerTube) would be ideal now that Framasoft supports PeerTube, but it would take a lot of time and is an ongoing effort.
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+The project was initially hosted on GitHub by Chocobozzz. A full migration to [Framagit](https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/PeerTube) would be ideal now that Framasoft supports PeerTube, but it would take a lot of time and is an ongoing effort.
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## Are you going to use the Steem blockchain?
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Mark Van den Borre