IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects

[Mathias]

So it is a shitcoin after all. Dammit.

To be honest, if it works well, decentralized, reliable and efficient storage is a concept I'd adopt a shitcoin for.

Chia was/is a shitcoin that wasted storage for nothing. Filecoin is IMO a good idea, if they manage to get it efficient enough. My tests with IPFS don't make me hopeful though.

[Mathias]

My focus (i made the IPFS in ffmpeg support) is to get external tooling to support IPFS too. Right now cURL is far and likely the next one with support. VLC and KODI are on the list but further down. If anyone wants to help (you can even get paid for that) then patches are definitely welcome!

Do all these tools ship with a complete IPFS stack? Do they all have to connect to IPFS and pull the files themselves? Do they have a private IPFS storage?

Or is there a daemon running that connects to IPFS and the curl IPFS support is "merely" redirecting ipfs://QMxxx to localhost:12345/ipfs/QMxxx

[archkde]

My guess is Filecoin. Not the software itself, the protocol, but hardware for local use, various forms of support, and various forms of storage as a service.

So it is a shitcoin after all. Dammit.

[skeevy420]

This article inspired me to read about IPFS a bit more. From a purely technical point of view, this seems like one of the few "decentralized web" projects I could get behind: no shitcoins, no Proof Of anything, just pure crypto hashes to make sure the content has not been tampered with. Is there a catch, given that it's mainly developed by a company, that surely has to have a business model to make money? (To be clear, I don't have a problem with companies making money with reasonable business models, but them not being clear about it makes me suspicious.)

My guess is Filecoin. Not the software itself, the protocol, but hardware for local use, various forms of support, and various forms of storage as a service.

[archkde]

This article inspired me to read about IPFS a bit more. From a purely technical point of view, this seems like one of the few "decentralized web" projects I could get behind: no shitcoins, no Proof Of anything, just pure crypto hashes to make sure the content has not been tampered with. Is there a catch, given that it's mainly developed by a company, that surely has to have a business model to make money? (To be clear, I don't have a problem with companies making money with reasonable business models, but them not being clear about it makes me suspicious.)

[markg85]

To those wanting IPFS support in your browser. You have a couple options for that today!
1. Use brave, you get IPFS support out of the box
2. Use IPFS Companion (for chrome, brave, firefox, opera and edge)

My focus (i made the IPFS in ffmpeg support) is to get external tooling to support IPFS too. Right now cURL is far and likely the next one with support. VLC and KODI are on the list but further down. If anyone wants to help (you can even get paid for that) then patches are definitely welcome!

[Danny3]

Really nice!
Waiting to see the support in Kodi and VLC.
And of course in Firefox too if possible.

[timofonic]

Firefox, Chrome, etc.

Even proprietary software ok too, please.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects

IPFS as the "InterPlanetary File-System" protocol for peer-to-peer network support in decentralized file sharing as a distributed file-system is now supported with FFmpeg 5.1. IPFS developers at Protocol Labs are also looking at expanding support for this protocol to other open-source projects...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/IPFS-FFmpeg-Open-Source-More