IPFS Video Streaming

Here we examine how we stream video using IPFS. Let's do some research on how to install IPFS, and it's application to creating a Decentralised Video Workstation.

So first let's look at Howto Install IPFS.

This video is being served by a traditional web server, but using IPFS as the backend storage medium: * Streaming video - ipfs

You can watch the same content locally if you have the IPFS Daemon running, in which case no central servers are involved: * Streaming video - locahost

# File structure What is happening here is that IPFS is loading a javascript based movie streaming / player solution and passing along to this player in the fragment identifier the multihash of a folder that contains the assets the player needs to stream the video.

* Folder structure - localhost

# Embedding HTML5 Video

We can also simply embed and IPFS url and use the HTML5 Video tag.

IPFS Video - ipfs.io