nimbusvid

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by nimbusvid 12y ago
The "right" way to solve it is for everyone to use seekable MP4 (or seekable WebM), especially since things like Chromecast don't natively support anything else. That's hard to do but possible if you provide a highly des
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by nimbusvid 12y ago
Plugins aren't a great solution, people don't want to install them.
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by nimbusvid 12y ago
Can you use magnet links?
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by nimbusvid 12y ago
There are now several forks with different features.
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by nimbusvid 12y ago
I created (and later closed) a similar service using mega.co.nz instead of torrents. The main problem I see with your approach is that you serve video from your server (and presumably do the torrent fetch server side). This opens you up to
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
Dropbox can see your files. If you want more privacy you can try http://www.nimbusvid.com which uses mega.co.nz plays encrypted video in the browser. Content is never sent to nimbusvid.com so you can watch your videos in privacy
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
Here is a higher bandwidth link to the same video http://www.nimbusvid.com/mega/#!xAEGXQiD!ez8HoC-LS4m2k2YYGZP...
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
Although it relies on Mega and Chrome, neither of which is recommended in the article, http://www.nimbusvid.com streams encrypted videos from your private cloud storage in your browser. No other service does this and it allows y
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
Does it support seeking? That was one of the more painful parts to implement when I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006334 Downloading from a cloud service provider is more consistent and will probably provide a
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
Firefox does not yet support the functionality needed to make this work but it is being implemented.
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NimbusVid: Stream encrypted video from the cloud in the browser (Chrome only)(nimbusvid.com)
2 points by nimbusvid 13y ago|1 comments
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by nimbusvid 13y ago
NimbusVid nimbusvid.com - Remote only (Based in Montreal) NimbusVid is a new unfunded site that streams encrypted video from your Mega.co.nz cloud storage. NimbusVid is looking for a full stack web developer in exchange for equity (no salar