Te Aratohu Katoa ki Livepeer

A clear guide to the decentralized video infrastructure protocol: staking LPT, choosing an orchestrator, building with Livepeer Studio and AI video.

He aha te Livepeer?

He kaupapa hereiwhanga kairoro mō te whakakōrero ataata ora me te tono, i hangaia i runga i te Ethereum, ā, ka hikoia e tētahi whatunga ao o ngā kaiwhakahaere GPU.

Livepeer is a decentralized video infrastructure network built to lower the cost of video transcoding. Transcoding is the compute-heavy process of converting a video from one format, bitrate or resolution to another. Every time a video on YouTube, Twitch or Netflix adjusts to your connection speed, transcoding is happening behind the scenes.

Ko te nuinga o ngā pūhara ataata e whakawhirinaki ana ki ngā ratonga kapua pēnei i te AWS MediaConvert, i te Mux rānei mō te whakawhitiwhiti. Ka whakakapihia ēnei e Livepeer ki tētahi whatunga kore-pokapū o ngā kaiwhakahaere kōpuku e tuku ana i te kaha GPU me te whakataetae i runga i te utu. Ka whakarite te kawa i te tohatoha mahi, te manatoko kounga me te whakatau utu i runga i a Ethereum.

Livepeer was founded in 2017 by Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang. The network publishes its usage figures (minutes transcoded, fees paid) on livepeer.org and in the Livepeer Explorer. Its native token, LPT, is used for staking, work coordination and governance.

GPU
Transcoding and AI Compute
DPoS
Delegated Proof of Stake
Ethereum
Whatunga Kua Tiakina
2017
I whakatūria

Me pēhea te mahi a Livepeer

He whatunga whakaaetanga pūtohi i raro i te whakaaetanga, e mahi ana ngā kaiwhakahaere i te mahi ataata, ā, e whakarato ana ngā kaiwhakaaetanga i te haumaru ōhanga.

Ngā Kaiwhakahaere

Ngā kaiwhakahaere node e whakatakoto ana i te LPT, ka whakahaere i te taputapu GPU hei mahi whakakōrero ataata. Ka whiwhi rātou i ngā wāhanga ataata i ngā kaipāho, ka whakakōrero i aua wāhanga ki ngā momo hōputu me ngā whakatau rerekē, ā, ka whakahoki i ngā hua. Ka whiwhi ngā kaiwhakahaere rārangi utu ETH mō ā rātou mahi me ngā utu pikinga LPT.

Kaiwhakakōrero

Ngā kaimahi GPU tūturu e tukatuka ana i ngā wāhanga ataata. I te mahi, ka whakahaerehia e ngā kaiwhakahaere i ō rātou ake kaiwhāwhā, engari ka taea hoki te tuku mahi ki tētahi pūkete o ngā kaiwhāwhā. Ka āhei tēnei hoahoa rua-rau ki ngā kaiwhakahaere te whakawhānui i te kaha i runga i te hiahia.

Kaitono

Ngā kaipupuri LPT e whakatakoto ana i ā rātou tohu ki ngā kaiwhakahaere hei whakarato haumaru ōhanga. Hei utu, ka whiwhi rātou he wāhanga o ngā utu ETH a te kaiwhakahaere me ngā utu LPT. Ka whai wāhi nui ngā kaiwhakawhiwhi ki te whakatū i ngā kaiwhakahaere e pono ana mā te ārahi i te whakatakoto ki ngā kaiwhakamahi kounga tiketike.

Te Paipana Whakawhānui

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Tāurunga Ataata

Ka tuku tētahi kaipāho (taupānga, papamahi rānei) i tētahi aho ataata, kōnae rānei ki te kuaha Livepeer.

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Mahi Tautuhi

Ka whiriwhiri te tikanga i ngā kaiwhakahaere i runga i te taumaha o te whakatakoto me te utu, ka tohatohato i ngā wāhanga ataata mō te whakawhānui.

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Whakawhānui GPU

Ka whakakōrero ngā kaiwhakahaere i ngā wāhanga ki ngā putanga maha (ngā whakatau, ngā tere) mā te whakamahi i ngā GPU NVIDIA.

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Manatokonga & Utu

Ka whakatau ngā utu-iti ā-ture i runga i te Ethereum. Ka whakarite ngā tirotiro manatokonga i te kounga o te whakakōrero.

Ngā āhuatanga matua o Livepeer

He aha te mea e kawea ana a Livepeer hei papanga hanganga kīrehe rangatōpū rangatira.

Lower Cost

Mā te whakamahi i te kaha GPU e toe ana puta noa i te ao me te tuku i ngā kaiwhakarite ki te whakataetae i runga i te utu, ka tukuna e Livepeer te whakawhitiwhiti reo ataata i raro i ngā reiti kapua pokapū noa. Ka nui ake te utu māmā o te hanganga ataata mō ngā kamupene hou me ngā kaihanga motuhake.

Kua tiakina e Ethereum

Livepeer's staking and payment contracts run on Ethereum through the Arbitrum One Layer 2 (L2), which keeps gas costs low. Staked LPT gives orchestrators an economic reason to perform work honestly.

Korere-ā-wā Tūturu

Livepeer supports low-latency live streaming alongside on-demand video transcoding. Work is spread across a distributed pool of orchestrators, so capacity grows as more operators join.

Motu Tuwhera

Ko te pūmanawa kaupapa here a Livepeer katoa he pūtake tuwhera. Ko te kiritaki go-livepeer, Livepeer Studio, me ngā kirimana atamai o te kaupapa here e wātea ana ki te arotake a te marea, ā, ka tiakihia e te hapori.

Utu-iti ā-tureto

Ka whakamahi a Livepeer i tētahi pūnaha utu moroiti tūponotanga hei whakatau utu pai me te kore e utu penehi i ia wāhanga ataata. Mā tēnei e iti rawa ai ngā utu whakawhiti me te pupuri tonu i ngā taurangi whakamuna.

Tautoko Maha‑Whakatau

Ka tautoko i ngā H.264, H.265 (HEVC), VP8, VP9, me te tukanga waea tere whakarerekē (HLS, DASH). Ka whakahaere ngā kaiwhakahaere i te whakakē rahi, ngā whakarerekē tere, me te hurihanga whakatau.

Te Tohu LPT

He tohu mahi a LPT e whakakotahi ana i te kaha whakakōrero, e tiaki ana i te whatunga, ā, e whakakotahi ana i ngā whakatenatena ōhanga.

Whakapūmu

Me whakatūpato LPT kia uru ki te whatunga. Ka whakatūpato ngā kaiwhakahaere i te LPT hei taura, ā, ko te nui o te whakatūpato e whakatau ana i te ōrau o te mahi whakakōrero ka riro e rātou. Ka whakatūpato ngā kaiwhiwhi ki ngā kaiwhakahaere hei whakapiki i tā rātou tohatoha kaha.

  • Kāore he iti rawa mō te tuku
  • Unbonding period of 7 rounds (about a week), set by governance
  • Whakatūpato i Arbitrum mō ngā utu hinu iti

Pikinga & Ngā utu

LPT has an inflationary model designed to incentivize participation. New LPT is minted each round (about one day) and distributed to active stakers. The inflation rate adjusts automatically based on the participation rate.

  • Ka heke te pikinga i te nui ake o te LPT ka whakatōpū
  • Ka roa ngā raupapa tata ki te 1 rā
  • Ka whakaitia ngā kāore e whakatōpū i te roanga o te wā

Te Whānaungatanga Utu

Ka utu ngā kaituku pāho i te ETH mō te whakawhiti reo, ka mau ngā kaiwhakahaere i tētahi wāhanga, ka tohua te toenga ki ō rātou kaiwhiwhi mana. Ka tautuhi ia kaiwhakahaere i tōna ake wāhanga utu (toha LPT) me te wāhanga utu (toha ETH).

  • Utu ETH i te tono tūturu mō te whakawhiti reo
  • Ka tautuhi ngā kaiwhakahaere i ō rātou ake wāhanga utu/utu hua
  • Ka whakakotahi aunoa ngā utu i ia huringa

Me pēhea te whakatakoto LPT

He aratohu hāere-ā-hāere ki te tuku mana ki ō tohu LPT me te whiwhi utu i te whatunga Livepeer.

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Whiwhi Tohu LPT

Hokona LPT i ngā whakawhiti kāri pēnei i Coinbase, Binance, rānei Kraken. Ka taea hoki te whakawhiti LPT i Uniswap (Ethereum) rānei i ngā whakawhiti kāri korekore i Arbitrum.

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Whakawhiti ki Arbitrum (Mēnā Ka Hiahiatia)

Ka whakahaere te whakatūpato Livepeer i Arbitrum One mō ngā utu huka iti. Mēnā kei runga i te pūnaha matua Ethereum tō LPT, whakawhiti ki Arbitrum mā te whakamahi i te piriti Arbitrum o te kāwanatanga, rānei i tētahi piriti tuarua.

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Tīpakohia tētahi Kaiwhakahaere

Torotoro ki te Livepeer Explorer (explorer.livepeer.org) ki te tirotiro i ngā kaiwhakarite kaha. Whakatauritehia te tapahi utu (he pai ake te iti mō ngā kaituku), te tapahi utu whakahaere, te tapeke tāke, te hītori wā mahi, me te mea ka karanga te kaiwhakarite i te utu ia rauna.

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Whakawhiwhia Tō LPT

Connect your wallet (MetaMask or another Ethereum wallet) to the Livepeer Explorer on Arbitrum. Select your chosen orchestrator and enter the amount of LPT to delegate. Confirm the transaction; gas fees on Arbitrum are a small fraction of Ethereum mainnet fees.

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Whiwhi me te Aroturuki i ngā Utu

Ka kohia aunoatia ngā utu i ia rauna (tata ki te rā kotahi). Ka whakaurua ngā utu pikinga LPT ki tō punga. Ka kohia ngā utu ETH, ā, ka taea te tango i ngā wā katoa. Aroturukitia tō tūnga i te papatohu Explorer.

Ngā tohutohu mō te whiriwhiri Kaiwhakahaere

  • Auau Karanga Utu: Me karanga ngā kaiwhakahaere i te utu i ia rauna kia whiwhi ai ngā kaituku. Tirohia ka karanga rātou i ia wā.
  • Tapahi Utu & Utu Whakahaere: Ko ngā tapahi iti ake he nui ake ngā whiwhinga mō ngā kaituku. Whakatauritea puta noa i ngā kaiwhakahaere matua.
  • Tapeke Tūranga: Whakawhānuitia puta noa i ngā kaiwhakarite kaua e aro noa ki te mea whai tūranga teitei rawa.

Livepeer mō ngā Kaiwhakawhanaketanga

Whakauru i te ataata korekore ki tō taupānga me ngā API e pai ana ki ngā kaiwhakawhanaketanga a Livepeer Studio's.

Ko Livepeer Studio te tomokanga matua mō ngā kaiwhakawhanake ki te uru atu ki te whatunga Livepeer. Ka whakarato i tētahi paparanga API whakahaere e tango ana i te uauatanga o te pāhekoheko tika ki te kawa whakawhirinaki-kore, e tuku ana i tētahi wheako kaiwhakawhanake e rite ana ki ngā API ataata pokapū.

With Livepeer Studio, developers can add live streaming and on-demand video to their applications with just a few API calls. The platform handles stream creation, transcoding orchestration, content delivery and analytics, all powered by the decentralized Livepeer network under the hood.

Ka tuku hoki a Livepeer i ngā SDK puna-tuwhera me ngā wāhanga React e tere ake ai te whakaurunga. Ko te whare pukapuka livepeer.js me te kete wāhanga Livepeer React e whakarato ana i ngā kaitākaro kua oti te hanga, ngā taputapu tukuake, me ngā mataono whakahaere roma.

REST API

Waihangatia ngā aho, tukuake ngā ataata, whakahaere ngā taonga, me tiki ngā tātaritanga. Ngā pito REST standard me te whakamana kī API.

Ngā wāhanga React

Kaitākaro ataata tāuru, wāhanga kaipāho, me te taputapu tukuake. Ka taea te whakarite katoa me Tailwind/CSS, ā, i hangaia i runga i ngā pūtake radix‑ui.

Ngā hononga tukutuku

Real-time notifications for stream events (go live, idle, recording ready), asset processing status, and multistream connectivity.

Mahi maha-aho

Broadcast at the same time to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and custom RTMP endpoints alongside your own platform, from a single ingest point.

Livepeer AI Ataata

Te whakawhānui i te whatunga GPU korekore ki tua i te whakakōrero ki te AI hanga me te mātauranga ataata.

Livepeer AI marks the protocol's move from a pure transcoding network to a decentralized GPU compute layer for video-related AI tasks. The Livepeer documentation now presents the network as a marketplace for AI video compute. Orchestrators with compatible GPUs can opt in to handle generative and analytical video workloads.

The AI pipelines cover text-to-image, image-to-video, video upscaling, style transfer and object detection. As demand for AI-generated video grows, Livepeer is pointing its existing GPU infrastructure at this market with bid-based pricing.

For orchestrators, AI jobs add a second revenue stream. Their GPUs can serve transcoding during peak video hours and switch to AI inference during quieter periods, which raises hardware utilization and earnings.

Kuputuhi-ki-Whakaahua & Whakaahua-ki-Video

Waihangatia ngā whakaahua i ngā tono kuputuhi, ka whakakīia ki ngā pokapū ataata mā te whakamahi i te Stable Diffusion me ētahi atu tauira pūwhera e rere ana i te whatunga motuhake.

Whakanuinga Ataata

Whakapai ake i te ataata pūkōrero iti ki te HD, 4K mā te whakamahi i ngā tauira AI mō te whakakāhore. He pai mō te whakahou i ngā ihirangi kōnae, me te whakapai ake i te kounga o ngā ataata i hangaia e ngā kaiwhakamahi.

Kitea Whakaaturanga & Tātari

He wehewehenga aunoa o ngā whakaaturanga, te kite ahanoa, me te whakahaere ihirangi i whakakahaia e ngā tauira AI. Tukatuka pukapuka ataata nui me te kore utu i ngā ratonga kapua ML utu nui.

Livepeer vs. Hanganga Ataata Tūmatanui

Me pēhea te whakataurite o te whakawhitiataata matihiko motuhake ki ngā kaiwhakarato kapua pūmau.

Āhuatanga Livepeer AWS MediaConvert Mux
Utu Whakawhitiataata Orchestrator prices, per minute (see Explorer) Per-minute list price (AWS pricing page) Utu rārangi mō ia meneti (whārangi utu Mux)
Korere Tūturu Yes (low latency) Mā MediaLive (tōtahi) Āe
Whakawhitiataata i te tono Āe Āe Āe
Mahi Ata AI Āe (AI Subnet) Mā Rekognition (tōtahi) Kati
Māia ki te Whakaputa Āe Kāo Kāo
Kāti Kaihoko Kore (kaupapa tuwhera) Āhuwhenua AWS Papamahi Mux
Pricing Model Competitive, set by orchestrators Utu rārangi pūmau Utu rārangi pūmau

Note: Livepeer handles transcoding (format conversion). Content delivery (CDN) is a separate layer: Livepeer can be paired with any CDN (Cloudflare, Fastly and others) or with Livepeer Studio's built-in delivery for end-to-end video. Prices are not fixed on Livepeer; compare live orchestrator prices with the current AWS and Mux pricing pages.

Ngā Pātai Auau

He aha a Livepeer?
Livepeer is a decentralized video infrastructure protocol built on Ethereum. It runs a marketplace for video transcoding and, more recently, AI video compute. Developers who need video processing pay a network of node operators (orchestrators) who supply GPU capacity. The protocol coordinates work, verification and payment on-chain.
Me pēhea te mahi o te whakatūpato a Livepeer?
Livepeer uses delegated proof of stake. LPT holders delegate (bond) their tokens to an orchestrator that performs video work. In return, delegators earn a share of that orchestrator's ETH fees and of newly minted LPT rewards. There is no minimum stake. Unbonding takes a fixed number of rounds set by governance (historically 7 rounds, about a week); check the current value in the Livepeer Explorer.
He aha te whakamahinga o te tohu LPT?
Ko te LPT te tohu mahi o te kawa Livepeer. Ka whakapaua e ngā kaiwhakarite hei tohu i te kaha me te pono, ā, ka whakapaua e ngā kaituku hei whiwhi utu. Ka whakatau hoki te whakapau i te tohatoha mahi: ka whiwhi ngā kaiwhakarite e nui ake tā rātou whakapau i te nuinga o ngā mahi. Ka utua ngā utu mō te mahi ake ki te ETH.
E hia te iti ake o te utu a Livepeer i te AWS mō te whakakōrero ataata?
Livepeer is usually cheaper than centralized transcoding services because orchestrators compete on price and use spare GPU capacity. The exact gap depends on the orchestrator prices at the time and on the centralized provider's current list price. Livepeer publishes its own comparisons on livepeer.org; compare them with the AWS MediaConvert or Mux pricing pages before deciding.
He aha te Livepeer AI?
Livepeer AI extends the orchestrator network from transcoding to AI video tasks. Orchestrators with compatible GPUs can run generative workloads such as text-to-image, image-to-video, video upscaling and style transfer. The Livepeer documentation now describes the network as a decentralized marketplace for AI video compute.

Ngā puna me ngā pānuitanga atu anō

Ka whakawhirinaki ngā tatauranga me ngā kerēme o tēnei whārangi ki ngā tuhinga kei raro nei. Ka neke ngā tatauranga pā ki te wā (reiti, hua, utu, raraunga mākete): tirohia te uara ora i te puna i mua i te mahi.

  1. Livepeer, official websitelivepeer.org

    Tirohanga kaupapa, rōpū whakapūmau me ngā whakatauritenga utu e whakaputa ana a Livepeer ki ngā ratonga ataata pokapū.

  2. Livepeer network documentationdocs.livepeer.org

    Orchestrator and delegator guides, governance-controlled network parameters such as the unbonding period, and the AI video compute framing.

  3. Livepeer whitepaper (GitHub wiki)github.com

    Protocol design: rounds, bonding and unbonding, work allocation by stake, probabilistic micropayments.

  4. Kaiwhakatere Livepeerexplorer.livepeer.org

    Live list of orchestrators, reward and fee cuts, total stake and current protocol parameters.

  5. livepeer/go-livepeer on GitHubgithub.com

    Kiritaki kōpuku puna tuwhera e whakamahia ana e ngā kaiwhakarite me ngā kuwaha.

  6. Taiwhanga Livepeerlivepeer.studio

    Ko te paparanga API whakahaere, ngā SDK me ngā āhuatanga rerenga maha kua whakaahuatia i te wāhanga kaiwhakawhanake.

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