Earn Steem by Uploading Videos to DTube + Find Solutions to Errors!
How do we start uploading videos to DTube? What works to fix the errors we get when trying to upload and submit to the blockchain? Where can we find a complete video tutorial showing a basic user guide for getting starting with DTube and fixing the errors we receive? I hope this video helps answer all of these questions! If you are having a problem using DTube, would you please post the error message in the comments? If you would like to earn money making a comment, would you please post solutions to any errors you know how to fix in response to comments because we will then upvote your answers to reward you for helping?
Basic process to upload a video to https://dtube.video.
- Register an account on Steemit like https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield.
- Use the private posting key from the wallet permissions tab to sign into DTube with the Steemit account.
- Upload videos to DTube along with a snap file or thumbnail image.
- Write a description, choose up to 4 tags, and submit to the blockchain.
- Edit the post on Steemit for maximum readability. Note that DTube takes 25% of the author rewards received from the Steem Power.
Common DTube troubleshooting errors and solutions.
- The upload fails or the uploading button spins forever or the browser forces a reloading of the page. Solve this problem by using handbrake to make a smaller video size or testing a different browser or trying a different computer or clearing the cookies or using DTube the next day. Under 1 GB video file is best.
- Invalid snap file either with failing to upload or the size is too big. The snap file size maximum is 500 KB currently. Overcome this error by using a smaller snap file image, reducing the video size, trying a different browser, or changing computers. Safari gives me this error frequently on my iMac.
- Unable to submit to blockchain with any kind of error with the submit button not resulting in a post on Steem. Test on a different computer, browser, video file, or wait one day and try again. Make the description shorter or reduce the tags or title if errors come from having these too long.
Have additional errors?
Submit them below to help us answer them together and earn upvotes on both questions and answers! Read the full post on Steem at https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield for more!
► Watch on DTube
► Watch Source (IPFS)
Learn more about DTube using these links!
- Meet the creator of DTube @heimindanger.
- See how DTube is hosted at https://ipfs.io/.
- View DTube earnings from the 25% author rewards fee at https://steemdb.com/app/dtube/earnings.
- Use handbrake to shrink video files at https://handbrake.fr/.
- Read the DTube announcement post at https://steemit.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-decentralized-video-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs.
- Get details about the Dtube 0.2 update at https://steemit.com/dtube/@heimindanger/dtube-0-2-faster-to-serve-videos-stronger-to-resist-censorship.
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Great job and thanks to @heimindanger that we have this tool, looking forward to see the improvements and evolution...keep it up, what a way to adding value!!!
Dtube is biggest evolution in internet history. Nice article jerry.
It is so nice to see that the idea behind DTube really works so far. Though DTube does not have any contend censure, you can usually find only appropriate valuable content. Plus content authors earn by far better than on Youtube.
I think the main priority for DTube creators is to find the way to keep this success in future. How to address the pressure about copyright issues, service abuse by scammers, etc... Not too much of those yet, but they will appear soon, as the service is growing fast!
Yo ,
Thanks for the great content
I came to steemit for Dtube :) if you like check my "Introducemyself or How I found Steemit because of DTube"
I will not spam you with link here...
Issues I found so far:
update:
Regards
It's really heart warming to see that I contributed to growing the STEEM userbase :D
Thanks a lot for the feedback. All of your points are already in my todo list, and will be resolved in the upcoming weeks ;)
Thanks, will you check the update point as well?
And if you are the creator of DTube than I will follow you :)
I am unsure how it works for such little rewards. Steemit only displays 2 decimal points, maybe its because the rewards are unreliable for such small amounts.
Just keep posting, it will surely go up if you keep posting quality content. Just like any other social network, you wouldn't expect to be super-popular on your first uploads, right?
My my answer on this question is that, it can't be done like that .
because the community want transparency over censorship regulations.
censorship even social norms are form of censorship.
Thank you for letting us know you came to Steemit specifically for DTube because this is VERY VALUABLE feedback for our community to see how an app such as DTube can bring new signups!
Thank you Jerry,
2 weeks ago I started to research about steemit in youtube.
The first video I have found was interview with heimindanger about Dtube / Steemit.
The second video was one of yours in your youtube channel. So maybe you are the second reason to be here :)
Good jerry.i am upvote u, have a good day!
Hi all.
I uploaded a file around 60 MB to DTube using Chrome. There was no errors during the process but after the upload completed the video failed to play or played and stopped after a few seconds.
I tested it on different browsers ( Chrome, Opera and Safari ) with the same results.
All I had to do was wait a few hours and it started to play normally. Still don't know what caused it.
Another problem I noticed is when playing the video sometimes it is resized meaning I can see a video playing and another copy of it on the same screen but smaller.
And this doesn't happen every time.
Does anyone had the same problem ?
I think the problem with the vids that aren't playing is for everybody
If i play hot or fresh vids, it always stops after a few seconds.
It helps if u open the vid in another tab, (right click)
Ok i haven't tried that. Thanks for the advice.
@tomaszs77 thank you for sharing with us that you just needed to check back a few hours later and it worked! I have not watched many videos on DTube yet and hope more of us here in the comments have additional feedback about viewer experience errors and solutions!
Great information, I didn't know DTube charge 25% of the pay out.
I haven't really used DTube but thinking about using it instead of YouTube to store my videos for steemit.
Does DTube take a cut as well from your steemit post pay out when you link a video to your DTube account to your post?
This is a great question, I was wondering the same thing
If I remember correctly from the DTube announcement the 25% pays for the storage and it doesn't effect the steemit post.
Great article, as usual @jerrybanfield . I had problems with Safari. I could not upload and kept getting the same error message. It worked fine with Chrome. Thanks.
You're welcome and I hope this post helps users to use Chrome instead of Safari to upload!
Hmm I just complained about the editing feature, and thankfully it has it now :)
I initially had upload problems with google chrome (going off goooooogle anyways) but have had good results using Opera
It would be cool if we could embed the Videos in our articles
we have done it already not we?
no chance DTube sucks
One of the top steemians said Dtube charges a fee for uploading videos there, is it true?
Hi, the developer, @heimindanger, points out in his blog post annoucing the 0.2 updates the following " The 25% fees will cover the development costs, for a couple of months, then once the project is solid and we stop working on it, paying the fees will only remain as a defaulted option."
It goes on to read "The total earnings of @dtube can be seen at https://steemdb.com/app/dtube/earnings (built by @jesta). As you can see, we are averaging 200 SP per day. That is a lot of income and it is enough to find a competent second developer as well as a designer to help this project going faster. I am already in the process of interviewing and will pick wisely."
In his initial blog post revealing DTube, the following is said in relation to the costs of hosting the content "I have recently created the @dtube account. This account will be used to collect 25% of the DTube author rewards. 10% of these fees will be used to pay for long-term storage of the files on IPFS Store. The rate is $0.044 per GB per month. So, for example, let's say you upload a 100MB video, that earns $10 rewards, then $0.25 will go to @nannal and ensure data redundancy for ~57 months. Once this time is passed, users will need to either pay themselves (crypto accepted of course) to keep the files being seeded, or seed it themselves directly on their own PC and connection."
Now in relation to why someone would want to use this platform, I do urge you to read his blog posts: https://steemit.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-decentralized-video-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs. Essentially, you post whatever you want and as long as you are around, that content can't be controlled.
Shenanigans! I'm declaring shenanigans. It might cost bandwidth but it doesn't cost SBD or Steem.
Someone mentioned in his post that it costs 10% of the total earning for that post.
Yes DTube takes 25% of author rewards! Thank you for mentioning this because I will edit it to make that more clear in the post!
25% of the author reward? So that means 25% goes to upvoters as curation reward, 25% goes to DTube and the authors only get paid 50% for their efforts. What's the point of using DTube?
Doesn't work like that. 25% goes to curators. 25% of the 75% remaining goes to @dtube, rest goes to the author.
What's the point of using DTube? You can post videos on the steem blockchain and earn rewards from it.
@heimindanger, Thanks for stopping by and explaining it. However, I'm still confused about the maths. I know curators get paid 25% of any post and rest 75% goes to the author. However, in this scenario, your're saying an extra 18.75% is deducted from the author's rewards and goes to DTube. isn't it a matter of loss for the authors? Am I missing something/the point? Please explain.
Also, if the core point is posting videos on steem blockchain and earning rewards from it, can't we do the same by posting our YouTube videos over here? What's the difference? Please explain, I will appreciate it.
You can use YouTube. And yes, this way you wouldn't lose out on the 18.75%. But let me try to defend DTube here, as I'm clearly biased.
With YouTube, you theorically need to read their 20 000 words terms of service before being able to upload a video.
With YouTube, your video gets sent to a centralised server, and you give more power to people who already have most of it.
With YouTube, if you video contains 6 secs of copyrighted content or more, ads will be added on top of it and money will go to copyright holders.
With YouTube, if your video contains non-standard political views, it will get removed.
With DTube, you will pay a fee, for now. But at least you have no strings attached, and you help me out to improve it to make it better.
Also, as @coldbolt mentioned, I plan to gradually lower the fees and finally turn the fees into an option, that you will be able to disable during the upload. Fees are only here so I can hire competent people (designer, developer) to build it faster, and increase adoption of the STEEM cryptocurrency.
@heimindanger, Very well defended. Thumbs up.
@heimindanger thank you very much for participating in the discussion here with your thoughtful replies!
I need to get on this!