Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.
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Can’t say Jellyfin sucks
Oh, but I will. For it to be a fork of enby, it’s fucking amazing how bad the androidTV app is in comparison. The media player has improved,but its still way slower then using an external one,which is weird. It also freezes for a solid 5 seconds minimum every time I swap subtitles (while the vlc external player does it on the fly), and it makes me change subtitles every single time I load a chapter. Envy’s player lets the user set a preferred subtitle language and it makes an effort to preselect one. Not only that,but you can seal that on a series basis and you can select the subtitle before starting the video on the user interface.
It has improved since I last tried it and at least it doesn’t die while transcoding or whatever, but the difference in performance of the android app/web version to the androifTV app is crazy. It would be better to adapt the android/web version of the app the manage a TV input than make the androidTV app actually useable…
Besides that its amazing :)
I rescind most of what I said because I just checked that the android app has TV casting (it didnt last time I checked) and the android app does have the preselecting and the player is waaaay smoother. Its comical that casting is a better user experience then using the native app but whatever.
Tell that the mpv player that is unable to playback non-srt subtitles.
My issues with playback are very limited and it’s usually just the playback device that sucks, can’t play the codec or not/bad configured HWA.
For example don’t encode files to x265 4K if you can’t decode or transcode x265 at 4K. My (device) experience is Chromecast w/ GoogleTV (AndroidTV), Android and WebPlay.When you say Chromecast, do you mean that you cast the android app to the TV? Because that experience is fine, its the native androidtv app I’m complaining about. And it’s not only the player, the android app is able to select the subtitles on the menu before launching the MPV player. In any case yeah, I’ll test the performance of the android app casting and just do that.
No no. The HDMI-dongle with the remote with AndroidTV
I torrent on my media PC and stream from there.
The only place I’ll stream from is the archive.
I’m old but i still think popcorn time was the best solution. P2P streaming.
Popcorn time and the Torrent plugin for stremio are nice but are leech-central and not sustainable if everyone did that without seeding
if you use streamio then you can choose whatever quality you want
downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off
You can untick every episode except the first few when you download.
You can also download a torrent sequentially and play it while it’s downlading but it’s fiddly.
I exclusively stream torrents. It’s almost flawless for me. The trick is you need a paid service like real debrid to get access to the good links. If you are only searching free ones, it’s going to be low quality, and selection sucks. I use RD and Kodi personally, it also allows you to torrent traditionally, too, and without the need of a VPN if your isp is nosey.
Yep, this is my setup. I did the whole *arr apps, Plex and Usenet setup for years, but hated dealing with storing the files. It also didn’t help when my 8TB drive decided to act up and make files inaccessible.
Now I stream everything through Stremio with RD+. Works on every device flawlessly.
fmhy and trying a couple options always worked out for me
Streaming sites are great to share the spirit of piracy with your friends that do not want to get into any other piracy option. Literally just sending them a link so they dont buy the movie on amazon is always worth it
After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.
Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.
I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.
is there a good guide you followed?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26287096
Gotchu fam’
about what
how to set up *arr stack
I used this guide https://trash-guides.info/
This is the way.
oh you mean how I pirate? download qbittorrent (best torrent client), get yourself some VPN if you are in 1st country (not a problem if you are in 3rd), go 1337x.to or rutracker.org (these are best I mainly use 1337x tho), search something find what you want to pirate, copy magnet link from there and paste to qbittorent add magnet link thing, it will downloaded.
They weren’t asking you. They replied to my comment about a proper setup
A user in this community wrote a guide. If you need any help feel free to ask here or dm me - I set up the full stack on a home server and would love to help share the knowledge.
You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.
The most talked about thing on Usenet? That’s right: Usenet.
You need something like nova player for android
Nah, torrenting 8 seasons of a show I want to watch is the way to go.
I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.
Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.
Check out stremio
This is what I use. Stremio, Torrentio add-on for Torrent sources, and a bit of tinkering so I don’t see the paid options. Works pretty well for single episodes of some shows (for others I download the box set).
Edit: I mean it works for full shows, but when I really like a show enough I’ll have a hard drive copy.
Sign up for some debrid service -> profit.
Yeah Debrid + Stremio and you’re set.
what’s the advantage of debird vs just watching the torrentio links on streamio?
In addition to what @kek@discuss.tchncs.de said;
You don’t need to worry about a VPN, and I find the connection much more stable and less prone to flakiness due to seeders being on shitty ISPs.
It isn’t as robust as Usenet, or a Plex/Jellyfin server, but it’s a lot more convenient in my experience.
Loads instantly as it’s direct from a server, essentially it’s a cached torrent
This has been working for me for a whilst however if one of the links in the chain goes down at some point then you have nothing to watch. I might even have to talk to my family!
I’m gonna start considering local server. I remember the good old days of getting up in the middle of the night to check limewire.
I used to run a Plex server locally, with content provided by Usenet. It was by far the most stable/robust experience I’ve had, but I like being able to watch whatever I want on a whim.
Probs my next move. Waiting to move house and will likely do this…maybe with jellyfish. I am trying to degoogle and amazon and currently stremio is on firestick. Stremio has been great but as I said it’s not totally immune to outside factors. Thanks for the note. It helps that others have success and share so, it makes the leap seem smaller.
OG Megaupload was end of an era when it came to streaming shit for free
