I first noticed D-tube promoting itself as a block chain alternative to YouTube. It would have been better simply promoted as a block chain video hosting site. Naming YouTube as its alternative, is somehow suggestive of a like comparison, and this is where it fails. D-tube is not an alternative to YouTube, as it is in no way comparable to YouTube's sophisticated marketing, editing and connectivity platform. So, if you intend using D-tube, and there's no good reason why you shouldn't - don't expect an alternative YouTube site.
What you do get with D-tube, seems to me to be a little buggy just now, as well as lacking some basic features, although I'm prepared to accept it might be me as a new user.
The first thing I noticed after uploading a video, which was in itself quite painless, after entering all the necessary info, I was prompted to upload a snapshot. I waited a while to see which thumbnail it had decided on first before I did that, and there was non, so you have to upload a snapshot, or there is no thumbnail. Second thing I noticed, on pressing the publish button, was a big red error message in the corner of the screen saying "error, unable to connect to the block chain" or something similar to that, it flashed up once then disappeared and that was that, my video was published. I couldn't find an error history, or any block chain info, or indeed any notice that the transaction had taken place, so I really don't know what to think of that, or indeed if it has actually linked to the block chain. Its published and that's all I know. There is no video editor that I can find, and no undo process, unless I'm missing something, then perhaps someone else can educate me.
The most lacking feature as far as I can tell as of writing, is its inability to embed the video in the link to steemit, but instead places the thumbnail or chosen 'snapshot' on the blog, with a link back to D-tube. Bearing in mind that D-tube is powered by and linked to steemit, I think this is a bit shortsighted. If I embed the video URL itself, it doesn't allow the playing of the video locally, you have to visit the site. YouTube on the other hand can be embedded, it will also allow you to embed on all popular social media sites. I have to say, I'm not a big YouTube fan out of principle, but it does work, its very slick like it or not.
OK that's it really, this is just my personal experience so far. D-tube seems to be a good idea, the first I'm sure of many block chain related products, but I'm not sure its ready for market just yet. I'll update you if I have a better experience in the future.
D-tube is an excellent enterprise, and I wish it every success. I have an account there and I will use it and hopefully enjoy its development.
I really hope Dtube keeps improving, because I really like the idea, but most of the time I can't play the videos. Until it actually works, there's truly no reason for me to use it.
Also, I really don't like that it automatically makes a steemit post and that post is automatically tagged with dtube.
Yes, I agree @tarotbyfergus , I like that its a decentralised block chain platform, but just now that's about it, so I hope it does improve, but I think for my blogs at the moment, I'll continue to use YouTube, or self hosted, just because they work. Steemit went to some trouble to make sure YouTube links could be embedded, which wasn't always the case, so maybe someone will do the same for D-Tube.
Of course you can embed videos from D.Tube, enter http://go.tube, create your own channel and embed videos from both YouTube and D.Tube. After you've created your channel, send me an e-mail at [email protected] and get a free .TUBE domain name. Can YouTube do this??????
Check http://roxane.tube as an example.
OK, yes I see now, go.tube is independent of steemit. My blog was about the D-Tube platform. I could decode the stream myself and botch it that way, but its something that D-Tube should do by default. D-Tube is a block chain product, Go.Tube is just another google add type site, like YouTube, it looks quite good, but the whole idea is to move away from that sort of thing, that's what block chain products are all about.
So once again, the answer I think would be, no you can't :)
OK Ty @livedottube , but does that mean I need to open another account on another site, to redirect D-Tube's video stream to a Steemit blog post - and am I correct in saying that you cannot do this directly from D-Tube. Yes, YouTube does embed direct, also in Steemit blogs.
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