We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] RiQuY@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

You can use an already hosted instance, there is no need to selfhost every service.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think they were maybe speaking to the peer-to-peer "hosting" part of peertube. If not enough people are contributing to bandwidth, then more falls back to the server, increasing the cost to run it.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 15 hours ago

Mainly storage. The only reason these free hosted sites can stand up is because they have low traffic. If 0.01% of YouTubers started dumping all their video over there, they'd quickly run the free services out of town.

Realistically, If it were easy enough for everyone to host locally (torrent style) and people paired up with hosting partners for backups, peertube could be an amazing Youtube alternative.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Paying for bandwidth and cloud storage rates for video hosting is pretty much worst case. I'd argue that if you were going to self host anything video would be the most important