StreamEzy

A Decentralized Live Video Streaming Platform

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Inspiration

The project utilises the advantages of blockchain shuc as privacy and datasecurity and offers a next generation solution for video streaming bottlenect issue. 80% of internet is used for streaming videos and with time this is going to increase only and this presents a huge problem of infrasture required to meet the growing needs. Here comes the decentraised file storage system which makes the requirement of infrastrure for the same quality video steaming less.

What it does

The Platform enables users to upload videos on IPFS, do live video streaming using Livepeer protocol and also featatures such as like, comment, superchat, share also available.

How we built it

We used Web3 for connecting to blockchain, IPFS is being used to store videos and photos, Smart contracts are being used to store information of videos and also for User Authentication, we are also using Livepeer protocol for live video streaming on the platform.Livepeer is a Ethereum based protocol that distributes video transcoding work throughout its decentralized network

Challenges we ran into

There were many challenges we faced during the development of the platform. As the technology we used is new so we ran into problems which we found difficult to debug. Also we started with a idea of making a fully decentralise platform using IPFS for databse also using Orbit Db but we ran out of time so we are using IPFS only for storing videos and photos. In future updates we plan to use OrbitDb for decentralise database on IPFS

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Succesfully deployed three smart contracts on Rinkeby testnet, Implemented Livepeer API for live streaming, and used IPFS

What we learned

We learned many different technologies and also drawbacks of present technologies and how bloackchain and decentralised internet can help to overcome those drawbacks. Tech we learned - IPFS, Smart Contracts, Solidity, Livepeer, OrbitDb, Web3

What's next for StreamEzy

We started with a idea of making a fully decentralise platform using IPFS for databse also using Orbit Db but we ran out of time so we are using IPFS only for storing videos and photos. In future updates we plan to use OrbitDb for decentralise database on IPFS.

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