Hey, I'm a developer of a 3rd party IPFS video uploader, and the goal of this project is to create an alternative way of uploading videos onto DTube without going through the official DTube upload servers at all. Therefore, content creators will have choices of which uploader they find more reliable to use rather than having to rely on a single upload server (it creates decentralization which is good for the entire community).

The uploader works asynchronously, which means there will be no encoding queues at all. Your videos that you upload goes directly into the public IPFS network which makes it easier for other IPFS nodes to pick up your video, therefore your video will always be playable even if DTube's servers go bust as long as it remains in the IPFS network.

I saw that you mentioned about the vague error messages on the official uploader. Our uploader shows more detailed error messages, no matter when the error occurred (upload errors, SteemConnect errors etc).

The @onelovedtube community is one of the DTube communities out there that is hosting my uploader as well as the videos uploaded through the uploader. They charge $10/month for the video hosting service. It comes with access to the uploader available at https://uploader.oneloved.tube, as well as Discord bot commands for pinning your videos uploaded through DTube's upload servers.

If you're interested, the plan is available at https://oneloveipfs.com. If you have any questions feel free to talk to me on the OneLoveDTube discord server.

Here's a review video by one of our customers on the service if you're interested to see: