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What's the state of IPFS?

I remember a few years ago there was excitement about using it to back video distribution but that seems to have fizzeled out.

Is there any video streaming service using IPFS?

Is the IPFS network growing? What is the best way to see the health of IPFS?

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[–] pexavc 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have been mapping out a possible way to do this. Pickling and scattering frames across the network, coupled with a client that stitches and buffers into a video. Whereas the manifest for each frame hash is compiled and stored separately.

I feel such a service is definitely possible. As for consumer/product worthiness I feel the other comments kind of covers the variables as to why you probably haven’t found a strong solution yet to streaming.

I definitely feel it is growing or at least it’s still in active development. I feel a lot of people either haven’t grasped it yet (aside from the NFT craze) or are not fond of the process of deleting content stored onto the network. Also a true real-time experience would require some more research on latency.