@requiem when i tried it years ago it was a bloated electron app that took like an hour to start up. not an exaggeration. it was doing some kinda indexing i think.
i think a video distribution platform should look something like PeerTube + SecSB. efficient distribution with no regard to IP law, because IP law sucks and does not deserve the electricity and computational power wasted on it, but backed by something more decentralized than DNS for identifying content.
would be cool to see this done with NDN too.
but also, i never dug very deeply into LBRY and it's been a few years since i tried it, so hopefully they have improved since then.