Isn't it the simplest solution to put everything on a torrent and then have a highly compressed thumbnail version of the video so you can review videos in really low resolution and decide whether to download the full torrent, funding it with crypto micropayments or lightning payments? What's wrong with the video hosting or NOSTR? Because the video hosting on NOSTR seems very good. Can you try to explain the problem a little better?
Who cares about decentralized video?
The open source community has tried several times to develop decentralized video streaming networks, but none of them have taken off yet.
This video compares the current state of YouTube against various decentralized options like nostr, BitTorrent, and Odysee.
Mirrored at the internet archive:
archive.org/details/nostr-video
No money was paid for the software involved in this video, including neural-network-based image, video, and audio generators. It's a demo of what can be done using today's tools with no budget.
Tools used include: Kdenlive; Whisk/Veo; MusicFX; pollo.ai; pixverse.ai; footage.com; klingai.com; the rogue digital assistant that lives in my tablet; several nostr clients and other things.
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License:
All the newly-created parts of this video are free to redistribute or modify, including: music; main voiceovers; any part of the video which wasn't available online before its release (July, 55 years after UNIX epoch).
Other parts of this video use pre-existing content found on the internet, under the principle of fair use. I'm not authorized to grant direct permission to use any of that pre-existing material, but you should be able to apply the same fair use principles if you use this video (or a meme found in it) as material for something else.
https://blossom.primal.net/a1fdcb44c935f545bd0ebc21f8bc1aa164d7af1b1622dc93a94fc52ce9bde4de.webm
Discussion
Yeah.
I feel like this is the solution.
Some kind of torrenting system.
There is no video hosting on nostr.
There's a bunch of different media hosting platforms and services but none of them are actually on Nostr they are their own servers.