Brave-browser: Peertube playback (torrent issue)

[ChameleonScales]

Description

When attempting to watch a video on any Peertube instance, I get this message:
"Sorry, but this video is not available because the remote instance is not responding.
Please try again later."

Example:

https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/f507dfdc-e73e-45a4-9778-d758cbe1ce96

Brave version:

Brave: 0.58.21 Chromium: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision: 15234034d19b85dcd9a03b164ae89d04145d8368-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#897}
OS: Linux

Reproducible on current release:

Yes:
Brave: 0.61.2 Chromium: 72.0.3626.71 (Official Build) dev(64-bit)
Revision: f52ccad2a6a3c65fc9e0c591a517ceab1198dac0-refs/branch-heads/3626@{#763}
OS: Linux

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
  No

Additional Information

Related issue: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10672

[blakeearth]

This is currently an issue on Version 0.63.9 Chromium: 73.0.3683.75 (Official Build) dev (64-bit). I love Brave's philosophy, and I hope it will be increasingly useful in escaping centralized and privacy-unfriendly services like YouTube (in addition to making sites like YouTube safer and more private to use). I think this is an important issue for that reason, as PeerTube has different (and significantly less centralized) privacy concerns than YouTube and other popular streaming websites.

[blakeearth]

For now, Brave users should be able to disable the WebTorrent extension as a workaround, and PeerTube should work as normal. Go to brave://settings, search for WebTorrent, and disable it. This is a problem with Brave's WebTorrent extension.

[pookito]

For now, Brave users should be able to disable the WebTorrent extension as a workaround, and PeerTube should work as normal. Go to brave://settings, search for WebTorrent, and disable it. This is a problem with Brave's WebTorrent extension.

Thanks for the advise. I was having the same problem as you stated and solved it. I just thought about dropping a line of thanks. :+1:

[feross]

Related: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5361

[feross]

Confirmed that this is the same issue as #5361 and it is fixed by this PR: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3035

[kjozwiak]

Verification PASSED on macOS 10.14.6 x64 using the following build:

Brave | 0.69.126 Chromium: 77.0.3865.65 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 87a331a3169cab563505fb44011058b904011ba1-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#726}
OS | macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)

• ensured that the following videos which are hosted on a PeerTube instance work when WebTorrent is enabled & disabled
  
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/f507dfdc-e73e-45a4-9778-d758cbe1ce96
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/3d95fb3d-c866-42c8-9db1-fe82f48ccb95
  
  
  • https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d
  
  

Verification passed on

Brave | 0.69.127 Chromium: 77.0.3865.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 201e747d032611c5f2785cae06e894cf85be7f8a-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#776}
OS | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• ensured that the following videos which are hosted on a PeerTube instance work when WebTorrent is enabled & disabled
  
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/f507dfdc-e73e-45a4-9778-d758cbe1ce96
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/3d95fb3d-c866-42c8-9db1-fe82f48ccb95
  
  
  • https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d
  
  

Verification passed on

Brave | 0.69.128 Chromium: 77.0.3865.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 201e747d032611c5f2785cae06e894cf85be7f8a-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#776}
OS | Windows 10 OS Version 1803 (Build 17134.1006)

• ensured that the following videos which are hosted on a PeerTube instance work when WebTorrent is enabled & disabled
  
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/f507dfdc-e73e-45a4-9778-d758cbe1ce96
  
  
  • https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/3d95fb3d-c866-42c8-9db1-fe82f48ccb95
  
  
  • https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d
  
  

[kjozwiak]

@feross please let me know if the above test cases are sufficient enough for verification ☝️

[feross]

@kjozwiak That should be sufficient validation!

[pookito]

Thank you, it works for me.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:48 AM Feross Aboukhadijeh [e-mail]
wrote:

@kjozwiak https://github.com/kjozwiak That should be sufficient
validation!

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