01-30-2022, 12:00 PM
DEMO - No, streaming heavy 4k media from an L1 isn't impossible!
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Why is there this narrative that streaming media, movies, etc from an L1 is impossible? It's simply not true.</p> <p>Now sure, storing multi-GB movies etc on your L1 and having to deal with the economics of state bloat, data rent etc is probably senseless under all use-cases, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.</p> <p>I've heard that statement quite a few times over the years, most recently by SBF on a twitter spaces session. So I thought it was time I showed that it's not only possible, but can provide a decent experience too!</p> <p>This morning I implemented a streaming protocol into my research network where I test out "blockchain stuff". This isn't any old blockchain, it's designed to be completely agnostic to the content it's processing with an extremely tight and lightweight state/execution-model. Not only that it is sharded, both at the state level and the data level.</p> <p>The demo shows me uploading various media content to the L1, then streaming it back to my browser. The content ranges from MP3, 360p movie trailers & 4K films.</p> <p>At the same time the network is also processing a bunch of other #dapps so it is under a moderate but constant load.</p> <p>Network configuration is a geo-distributed, 64 replica, 8 shard-group instance. Each replica is an 8 core, 16GB, 1TB SSD specification.</p> <p>Here is the twitch stream of the demo earlier this evening</p> <p><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280362879">https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280362879</a></p> <p>Here is the same twitch stream (1.5GB of it) uploaded and hosted by the network I'm demonstrating ?</p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=radflix-twitch.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=radflix-twitch.mp4</a></p> <p>And the various content from the demo</p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=matrix.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=matrix.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=v4v.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=v4v.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1-4k.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1-4k.mp4</a> </p> <p>Edit: The DAPP that is providing the constant load is a Twitter clone which is importing a real twitter feed. It's also importing media from tweets and users. You can get to that at </p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/twitter/index.html">https://flexathon.net/twitter/index.html</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fuserleer"> /u/fuserleer </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sfutm1/demo_no_streaming_heavy_4k_media_from_an_l1_isnt/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sfutm1/demo_no_streaming_heavy_4k_media_from_an_l1_isnt/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Why is there this narrative that streaming media, movies, etc from an L1 is impossible? It's simply not true.</p> <p>Now sure, storing multi-GB movies etc on your L1 and having to deal with the economics of state bloat, data rent etc is probably senseless under all use-cases, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.</p> <p>I've heard that statement quite a few times over the years, most recently by SBF on a twitter spaces session. So I thought it was time I showed that it's not only possible, but can provide a decent experience too!</p> <p>This morning I implemented a streaming protocol into my research network where I test out "blockchain stuff". This isn't any old blockchain, it's designed to be completely agnostic to the content it's processing with an extremely tight and lightweight state/execution-model. Not only that it is sharded, both at the state level and the data level.</p> <p>The demo shows me uploading various media content to the L1, then streaming it back to my browser. The content ranges from MP3, 360p movie trailers & 4K films.</p> <p>At the same time the network is also processing a bunch of other #dapps so it is under a moderate but constant load.</p> <p>Network configuration is a geo-distributed, 64 replica, 8 shard-group instance. Each replica is an 8 core, 16GB, 1TB SSD specification.</p> <p>Here is the twitch stream of the demo earlier this evening</p> <p><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280362879">https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280362879</a></p> <p>Here is the same twitch stream (1.5GB of it) uploaded and hosted by the network I'm demonstrating ?</p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=radflix-twitch.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=radflix-twitch.mp4</a></p> <p>And the various content from the demo</p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=matrix.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=matrix.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=v4v.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=v4v.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1.mp4</a></p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1-4k.mp4">https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1-4k.mp4</a> </p> <p>Edit: The DAPP that is providing the constant load is a Twitter clone which is importing a real twitter feed. It's also importing media from tweets and users. You can get to that at </p> <p><a href="https://flexathon.net/twitter/index.html">https://flexathon.net/twitter/index.html</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fuserleer"> /u/fuserleer </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sfutm1/demo_no_streaming_heavy_4k_media_from_an_l1_isnt/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sfutm1/demo_no_streaming_heavy_4k_media_from_an_l1_isnt/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R