I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.
If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.
But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it's really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.
Yeah, I am too lazy to set up something like Jellyfin. It only makes sense for me with music, for which I use Navidrome. But again, my setup is mostly directory/filename based, so it's really being carried with m3u playlists as opposed to proper metadata.
I mean, maybe I'll use Jellyfin if I'll do something in a proper way, but currently I don't see the point of it. And anyway, I can always copy the URLs to VLC, which will even accept DVD ISO files.
e.g.:
The biggest issue with that is it requires all of your media to be in a flat folder for search to work right.
Auto index has a mode to return results in json. With a touch of html and js you can make a page that will crawl the directory tree and build a simple searchable cache of name to path, and then you can play it from there. It ends up making a request per folder, but in realistic terms it's not gonna be enough to actually be noticable.
You can then use something like this on a cron to convert anything your browser can't play and you're pretty close to a minimalist media server with only static files.
The one I used to use was just a bash script so I didn't have to wrangle python modules, but I can't seem to find it.
I ended up dropping it when I bought a nas with all that stuff built in and it generally made my life easier. Worth the money if you can afford it.
Do you just remember where you are in every show (or movie that you only partway watched)? That's the biggest appeal of jellyfin/plex to me, so I can go in and continue from where I left off without keeping track.
When you're torrenting and you're planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you're watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can't find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren't going to be in the same room, you'll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that's low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you'd block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.
Mate, don't be weird. Torrent the movie you wanna watch before your girl gets there. Put it in your plex library and boot up Plex on your xbox. Easy peasy. You don't have to be weird about it.
do you know of any good guides that explain how to set up a full stack like this? I've been meaning to level up my movie watching game but don't know how these services interact with each other
What fantasy world do you live in? Any man who can pull out a simple apple machine and make everything work must be a normie and will win the hearts of many
What's with the "ooga booga woman scared by tech" meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it's not like it's underground.
And just have it downloaded? "Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then." Then start the download. If it's popular, you'll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she's that "confused" by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can't imagine setting something up would make them leave? "Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a... A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???"
I don't know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya'll.
"What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?" Boy, bye
Although that may be true the 'normies' I've spoken with about this aren't necessarily stupid. They may just not have it on the radar because it's not their interest, some show interest in how it works and at worst I've found they say oh that's interesting it's pirating right? And that's it.
My coworker is super non tech savvy and has no interest and even she just says 'it flies over my head but I trust you to get it done'.
4channers now a days aren't even good at making up lies/making shit posts. All they can do is low level rage bait. Pathetic.
In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I'd argue they aren't presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say "Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don't know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie."
It's Usenet babe. Get this... it's been around since 1980! Isn't that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn't broke, don't fix it.
Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn't I do this switch years ago???
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn't come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you'd need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it's just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldn't know firsthand, because I'm a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it's not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven't had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*
Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn't and you'll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can't get. Don't have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.
Torrents persist until all seeders disappear for good, which is rare on private trackers. On usenet generally content is uploaded ASAP upon release and then only lasts as long as rentention. Maybe you'll get rereleases on usenet but it didn't seem to be a common occurance
Yeah there was a lot of googling duckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good
My family has learned not to ask questions, just tell me the name of the movie or TV show in signal, and Ill let you know when its on plex.
I know they dont understand. I see their glassy eyes staring past me if the compel me to explain. 'But who puts it there, and what motivates them?' they ask. They do not see the irrationally of their line of inquiry.
But they have learned now. No questions, no complaints, just leave me a muffin when I've done a good job.
I set up ombi for requests, linked it into all the *arr's and automated it to hell.
I log in, click a button to approve it, let the system work for a bit and the system updates me by web hook to say it's done, as it's publishing the content on Plex.
It all sits behind a pfsense system running a VPN service. So everything is automatic.
Girl is super geeky, she's just mad at him for running his laptop on the TV instead of using Plex to watch torrents from his xbox like a normal person.
Once I was with a girl and taking too long to get a torrent going so she whips out her phone and does it herself. Safe enough to say that we are together now.
It might have actually been a streaming site now remembering. She used a vpn to connect to Mainland China, typed some Chinese into a Chinese search engine and found it on a Chinese website.
On Android, Flud has been good to me over the years even though the ads can get annoying at times. Hopefully it helps you get Linux ISOs on your phone with ease :)
Oh, I'm old and wasn't sure why a person was in their house who wasn't aware that they watched pirated stuff. Being annoyed that everything wasn't set up ahead of time makes sense, but anyone who cares about things being pirated isn't worth dating anyway.
Sonarr and radarr aren't going to do what you claim without a Usenet client to do the actual downloading. So on top of your *arrs you also have to pick a quality indexer, find and pay for a Usenet provider, and set up your download client. And preferably use a nicer frontend for finding the content a la Overseerr or Ombi. And probably Bazarr to get subtitles for all the anime/foreign language content. Also good luck getting good, consistent releases automatically without some serious dedication to setting up your quality profiles.
It definitely depends on your trackers and how smart sonarr/radarr are with picking a useable torrent. I think 80-90% of the time I don't have to think about it, but there are some shows I've had to really dig for. Private trackers make it way easier
Doesn't sound to me like they actually understand what they're talking about. Sonarr and Radarr both use trackers to download files from either torrents or usenet. Emby is a media server that displays the downloaded files (like netflix). You don't typically have to reencode what you download.
Right but you still wait for however long the file needs to download. Normally quite a bit more than 1 minute. That's what got me confused about this almost streaming like experience that I'm missing out on.
Yeah that part of their comment was also misleading. Basically they're saying Radarr/Sonarr are better than torrents but really they're just a fancy front end. If something downloads fast on them it will go just as fast in whatever torrent client you use.
I didn't say anything about Usenet in the comment you are replying to. The point is Radarr/Sonarr are not Usenet. They are just front ends regardless of which service you are getting content from. Whatever download speed you get on that service is what you get, they have nothing to do with it.
I've had plenty of torrents download at high speed, is it less reliable than Usenet? Yes, but It's also free. I'll wait a day or two if I have to if it saves me money.
There is a provider with Usenet which serves the same purpose (and costs money so there's a trade off). Radarr and Sonarr are not finding the content for you. It's coming from whatever service you are using.
Ok? Why are you bringing Netflix into it? No one suggested that. You can do whatever you want the point of my responses are that Sonarr/Radarr are not as simple as you implied.
Switch to streaming and use ad blockers. It will be 720/ 1080p max, though. Most people won't notice. There's a guide/ wiki on a specific lemmy community.
Also, be honest. Your partner might be tech savvy and not be able to afford entertainment as well. Go for it. That's how I found my partner.
Then I'd still not buy because typical services won't fool me a third time. Reasonably priced ad free were called cable TV and Netflix. Then, each put ads in and hiked prices. The enshitification of Netflix is now common example of the commodification of an IT product or service.
We created atypical services for reasonably priced ad free content. It now costs me about $120/yr for whatever typical domestic or foreign programming, without ads. For $60/yr it's domestic programming and few hours instead of a few minutes to grab a program. I also donate directly for some streaming content I enjoy, such as agadmator chess, then watch with an ad blocker. Both are reasonably priced and ad free.
Ha, I mean, it's not like there is a huge buy-in. If there was a good convenient service again, I'd start using it. When it invariably it goes to shit, I'll stop paying and go back to downloading. Just like I did with Netflix.
If enough people stopped paying because of their bullshit, maybe that would pave the way for a a platform where you actually feel like you own the shit you paid for.
If one does the math for an average single income US household, a modest broadband connection is 15-20% of their disposable income. They survive on metered cellular.
If there was a good convenient service again, I'd start using it.
I'll stay right where I'm at, paying less for more and giving more to content creators of substance, and with the convenience of a stable system.
I'll either watch pirated content or nothing at all. Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility. Deal with it.
You do realize there's a middleground there, right?
I buy the content I want and rip it to my NAS to stream to my TV. My total cost is less than streaming services (I don't watch a lot), but I do pay for the content. So the only complication on my network is if my NAS turns off, in which case I'll just walk over and powercycle it and we're good. One great part is that if my internet dies (it seems to go out like once/month), I can still stream whatever, so my setup is better IMO than streaming services.
Subscriptions are for suckers, but that doesn't mean piracy is the only alternative. I only pirate stuff I can't get legally at a reasonable price (e.g. old movies/shows, streaming service exclusives, etc).
Exactly. Couple years ago when everything was on netflix I gladly gave them money but now it feels like every season of every somewhat good show is on a different platform.
Yup. That's why I cancelled my Disney+ sub (just bought the 3-4 shows my kids watch) and I'm pushing my wife to cancel Netflix. We'd rather not pirate, but I'm not going to keep paying for a sub that either has ads (screw that) or isn't worth the price of content.
I've been a Netflix sub for ~10 years, and now I'm trying to cancel because their value prop has fallen off a cliff.
Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility
I don't have a problem with people paying for things. I just don't know why people pay for things when they don't actually get freedom from that service in return. It's all DRM-encumbered crap
I've had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all "what's a computer?" level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they've never complained since.
Torrents tend to be more reliable quality; around here, they're both equal in legality/illegality, and you don't have to think about your Internet connection.
The actual trick is having done it earlier, not trying on the couch right beforehand.
Torrent is more reliable than paid a services like Prime Video. My wife got pissed watching one of her shows on Prime. It kept on buffering and quality was trash. I torrented the entire season, put up a JellyFin server. She was so happy.
Meet woman, don't be weird.
Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.
She has to get surgery and she'll be bed-bound while she recovers.
"Will you take care of me, Anon?"
Lord of the Rings marathon. The director's cuts. She can't run.
The long setup. "Babe, you agreed to stay in sickness and in health. This is my sickness."
Narrator: But she didn't stay.
She died during the Battle of Helm's Deep
But inside she was already dead
Just do old school style and read her the Silmarillion.
Make sure to get the annotated version.
Return of the King was the first and only movie I've seen that had an intermission. Keep in mind this was only the theatrical version!
Then go see 2001 A Space Odyssey. Wait until the IMAX release comes around.
That movie is like taking 500 quaaluds
But what an intermission!
Anon needs Jellyfin.
I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.
If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.
But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it's really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.
Sorry, your favorite media server is just files you play on a browser?
I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.
Kinda based tho tbh
"If it works, it ain't stupid" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It can definitely work and be stupid
Yeah, I am too lazy to set up something like Jellyfin. It only makes sense for me with music, for which I use Navidrome. But again, my setup is mostly directory/filename based, so it's really being carried with m3u playlists as opposed to proper metadata.
I mean, maybe I'll use Jellyfin if I'll do something in a proper way, but currently I don't see the point of it. And anyway, I can always copy the URLs to VLC, which will even accept DVD ISO files.
e.g.:
let's me play entire copy of a DVD, properly with menus and bonus features, just as if I used the DVD directly.
Although I don't do this anymore because of storage limitations, but I'll likely return back to it once I'll have a proper media server and LAN.
That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm into it.
The biggest issue with that is it requires all of your media to be in a flat folder for search to work right.
Auto index has a mode to return results in json. With a touch of html and js you can make a page that will crawl the directory tree and build a simple searchable cache of name to path, and then you can play it from there. It ends up making a request per folder, but in realistic terms it's not gonna be enough to actually be noticable.
You can then use something like this on a cron to convert anything your browser can't play and you're pretty close to a minimalist media server with only static files.
The one I used to use was just a bash script so I didn't have to wrangle python modules, but I can't seem to find it.
I ended up dropping it when I bought a nas with all that stuff built in and it generally made my life easier. Worth the money if you can afford it.
Do you just remember where you are in every show (or movie that you only partway watched)? That's the biggest appeal of jellyfin/plex to me, so I can go in and continue from where I left off without keeping track.
I always finish them.
You always finish an entire TV series?
Not a series, but then yes, I remember where I ended. Or I can just write it on a note if the series is still being made and it will take some time.
Amateur. You set this up ahead of time.
When you're torrenting and you're planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you're watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can't find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren't going to be in the same room, you'll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that's low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you'd block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.
I have none of these issues, but I use Usenet soo...
Honestly though if push comes to shove Stremio and RealDebrid can work wonders provided your internet is actually fast enough.
Another vote for usenet. Somewhat less accessible than torrents but worth the effort and money.
Or just have a VPN on and go to fmovies or whatever to stream it for free since you're already on a laptop with connection anyways.
Most popular movies have enough seeders to finish in 20 minutes where I live.
But if I were in OP's shoes, I would just turn to streaming and forego the slightly better quality.
The movie isn't the most important thing at that point.
OP doesn't pay for streaming on the hypothetical (because we all know this isn't a real story lol).
This is a great example of why Netflix is still so profitable.
Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on it...
Guess what she wanted after our divorce? That's right Plex.
If she scoffs at your media setup she's wrong for you.
My ex told me she never ever wanted to talk to me ever again, ever!
Next week she texted me asking access my plex server.
torrent ahead of time?
anon is a dumbfuck.
You can also press one button to configure a torrent to download first and last, allowing you to play a video while it streams in.
Anon can’t even torrent right, she just got scared that he’d be too stupid to put on the condom right.
Mate, don't be weird. Torrent the movie you wanna watch before your girl gets there. Put it in your plex library and boot up Plex on your xbox. Easy peasy. You don't have to be weird about it.
If she's not excited to see the download bar move, she's not getting invited back.
This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.
Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.
do you know of any good guides that explain how to set up a full stack like this? I've been meaning to level up my movie watching game but don't know how these services interact with each other
No sorry, I did it all manually with my own custom docker setup. I'm sure there are guides out there though.
The servarr wiki has guides for seeing up each of the services
The iPad with VLC works great for portability too.
But that means you use a Apple device so you are a noob and deserve the walkout.
Yeah I was SSHing the movies to it directly from my server but I doubt you know what that is.
Oh I guess I have to quit my job then :(
:(
I know this isn't a shitpost, but this reads like fake hacker speech lol
I am an aspiring technical writer so I will take that as a compliment.
What fantasy world do you live in? Any man who can pull out a simple apple machine and make everything work must be a normie and will win the hearts of many
If she doesn’t like my slavish devotion to foss alongside my extensive collection of katanas then she’s simply not the one for me
But is the sword design open hardware?
Jellyfin > plex?
FOSS always > everything else.
Idk, i just run kodi and the crew. It has never failed me.
What's with the "ooga booga woman scared by tech" meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it's not like it's underground.
And just have it downloaded? "Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then." Then start the download. If it's popular, you'll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she's that "confused" by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can't imagine setting something up would make them leave? "Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a... A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???"
I don't know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya'll.
"What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?" Boy, bye
I thought it was supposed to be an old person confused
I like that. Anon just likes hanging with cougars, even if they're not always tech savvy.
A person would have to be very old indeed to be out of range for knowing about HDMI cables.
I'm choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.
>not downloading the movie in advance
>not knowing about the "download in sequential order" option on the client that lets you start watching quickly
That makes more sense 🤔 Guess jokes on me for assuming it was the other way lmao
no, that was the point of the original post. I just decided to imagine a better version in my head D:
Tech literacy has peaked hard with millenials.
Don't think it is about women being scared by tech, but "normies" only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.
Although that may be true the 'normies' I've spoken with about this aren't necessarily stupid. They may just not have it on the radar because it's not their interest, some show interest in how it works and at worst I've found they say oh that's interesting it's pirating right? And that's it.
My coworker is super non tech savvy and has no interest and even she just says 'it flies over my head but I trust you to get it done'.
4channers now a days aren't even good at making up lies/making shit posts. All they can do is low level rage bait. Pathetic.
In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I'd argue they aren't presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say "Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don't know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie."
It's Usenet babe. Get this... it's been around since 1980! Isn't that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn't broke, don't fix it.
Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn't I do this switch years ago???
Because they usually cost money
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn't come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you'd need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it's just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldn't know firsthand, because I'm a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
Comparing to torrents
With usenet you're not a distributor.
You say that as if it was a plus...
I mean you can be if you want
Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn't log, over torrents any day. The anonymity level, speed, and retention is all worth it.
But they still are more expensive than torrents
So use torrents and get ridiculed by your date.
Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I've been so excited with the results :)
Shit goes missing after like a year
IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it's not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven't had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*
"Who is it?"
What goes missing?
YouI don’t know how Usenet works.Edit: edited to say I don’t know instead of you.
The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider
Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn't and you'll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can't get. Don't have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.
So movies from 2011 and before can not be found?
That's cool, retention a lot better now than like 10 or 20 years ago
Thanks! And sorry, I meant to say that I don’t know how Usenet works, not you.
Follow-up question. Why is retention so important? Wouldn’t they get reuploaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.
Torrents persist until all seeders disappear for good, which is rare on private trackers. On usenet generally content is uploaded ASAP upon release and then only lasts as long as rentention. Maybe you'll get rereleases on usenet but it didn't seem to be a common occurance
How do you get a provider though?
Yeah there was a lot of
googlingduckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so goodMy family has learned not to ask questions, just tell me the name of the movie or TV show in signal, and Ill let you know when its on plex.
I know they dont understand. I see their glassy eyes staring past me if the compel me to explain. 'But who puts it there, and what motivates them?' they ask. They do not see the irrationally of their line of inquiry.
But they have learned now. No questions, no complaints, just leave me a muffin when I've done a good job.
Muffins for the showfinder!
https://overseerr.dev/
I set up ombi for requests, linked it into all the *arr's and automated it to hell.
I log in, click a button to approve it, let the system work for a bit and the system updates me by web hook to say it's done, as it's publishing the content on Plex.
It all sits behind a pfsense system running a VPN service. So everything is automatic.
It's barely an inconvenience.
She just got filtered. Another successful test by anon.
This test is gonna filter out any girl who's smart enough to use Plex with her xbox
Girl is super geeky, she's just mad at him for running his laptop on the TV instead of using Plex to watch torrents from his xbox like a normal person.
A normal person would install the client on the TV, Xbox is not needed in this chain.
This requires having a smart TV.
Finding a dumb TV is challenging.
Just buy a smart one but leave the brain disconnected from the internet
I used to just glue a cheap android box on the back of my tv. Now i glued an expensive nvidia shield on the back of my tv
Once I was with a girl and taking too long to get a torrent going so she whips out her phone and does it herself. Safe enough to say that we are together now.
Wow torrenting on a phone. I know it's possible but I always thought it was slow or difficult.
It might have actually been a streaming site now remembering. She used a vpn to connect to Mainland China, typed some Chinese into a Chinese search engine and found it on a Chinese website.
What the actual fuck? Never thought of learning Chinese just to pirate something. Unless she already knew Chinese?
On Android, Flud has been good to me over the years even though the ads can get annoying at times. Hopefully it helps you get Linux ISOs on your phone with ease :)
Man, I used that app in 2014... Still remember torrenting music on my phone one the way to Melbourne for a concert 😅
I'd suggest alternatives from fdroid over the play store.
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.proninyaroslav.libretorrent/ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.ap.transmission.btc
Hot
Mostly what i see is a lack of preparedness. If i had a date over the movie would be downloaded and the TV plugged in a week in advance.
Oh, I'm old and wasn't sure why a person was in their house who wasn't aware that they watched pirated stuff. Being annoyed that everything wasn't set up ahead of time makes sense, but anyone who cares about things being pirated isn't worth dating anyway.
Yarr matey, we be sailin the high seas alone this fine evenin.
Stremio + Torrentio makes this sooo much easier
dude! Thanks, finally I can watch Ed, Edd & Eddy
I went from Plex + the arrs to this because I moved and couldn't be bothered to set it up again.
That was a close save! I wouldn’t fuck a blind consumer with your dick…
But how about someone else's?
If she doesn't know what a hdmi cable is I'm boiling her into a stew.
Sonarr and radarr aren't going to do what you claim without a Usenet client to do the actual downloading. So on top of your *arrs you also have to pick a quality indexer, find and pay for a Usenet provider, and set up your download client. And preferably use a nicer frontend for finding the content a la Overseerr or Ombi. And probably Bazarr to get subtitles for all the anime/foreign language content. Also good luck getting good, consistent releases automatically without some serious dedication to setting up your quality profiles.
I wish? That's not my experience, anything that's not superpopular is hard to find. Are you using private trackers?
It definitely depends on your trackers and how smart sonarr/radarr are with picking a useable torrent. I think 80-90% of the time I don't have to think about it, but there are some shows I've had to really dig for. Private trackers make it way easier
Doesn't this solution require downloading the file, reencoding and then it's available to watch? How do you only need one minute to start watching?
Doesn't sound to me like they actually understand what they're talking about. Sonarr and Radarr both use trackers to download files from either torrents or usenet. Emby is a media server that displays the downloaded files (like netflix). You don't typically have to reencode what you download.
Right but you still wait for however long the file needs to download. Normally quite a bit more than 1 minute. That's what got me confused about this almost streaming like experience that I'm missing out on.
Yeah that part of their comment was also misleading. Basically they're saying Radarr/Sonarr are better than torrents but really they're just a fancy front end. If something downloads fast on them it will go just as fast in whatever torrent client you use.
I didn't say anything about Usenet in the comment you are replying to. The point is Radarr/Sonarr are not Usenet. They are just front ends regardless of which service you are getting content from. Whatever download speed you get on that service is what you get, they have nothing to do with it.
I've had plenty of torrents download at high speed, is it less reliable than Usenet? Yes, but It's also free. I'll wait a day or two if I have to if it saves me money.
There is a provider with Usenet which serves the same purpose (and costs money so there's a trade off). Radarr and Sonarr are not finding the content for you. It's coming from whatever service you are using.
Ok? Why are you bringing Netflix into it? No one suggested that. You can do whatever you want the point of my responses are that Sonarr/Radarr are not as simple as you implied.
reencoding is not required in advance, it happens on the fly if needed.
download still needs to be completed first usually, but you can save a lot of time if you compromise in quality.
Switch to streaming and use ad blockers. It will be 720/ 1080p max, though. Most people won't notice. There's a guide/ wiki on a specific lemmy community.
Also, be honest. Your partner might be tech savvy and not be able to afford entertainment as well. Go for it. That's how I found my partner.
Not able to afford?
If there was a reasonably-priced ad-free service you could pay for to get complete shows, many would do it.
But this is a joke: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
Then I'd still not buy because typical services won't fool me a third time. Reasonably priced ad free were called cable TV and Netflix. Then, each put ads in and hiked prices. The enshitification of Netflix is now common example of the commodification of an IT product or service.
We created atypical services for reasonably priced ad free content. It now costs me about $120/yr for whatever typical domestic or foreign programming, without ads. For $60/yr it's domestic programming and few hours instead of a few minutes to grab a program. I also donate directly for some streaming content I enjoy, such as agadmator chess, then watch with an ad blocker. Both are reasonably priced and ad free.
Ha, I mean, it's not like there is a huge buy-in. If there was a good convenient service again, I'd start using it. When it invariably it goes to shit, I'll stop paying and go back to downloading. Just like I did with Netflix.
If enough people stopped paying because of their bullshit, maybe that would pave the way for a a platform where you actually feel like you own the shit you paid for.
If one does the math for an average single income US household, a modest broadband connection is 15-20% of their disposable income. They survive on metered cellular.
I'll stay right where I'm at, paying less for more and giving more to content creators of substance, and with the convenience of a stable system.
I'll either watch pirated content or nothing at all. Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility. Deal with it.
You do realize there's a middleground there, right?
I buy the content I want and rip it to my NAS to stream to my TV. My total cost is less than streaming services (I don't watch a lot), but I do pay for the content. So the only complication on my network is if my NAS turns off, in which case I'll just walk over and powercycle it and we're good. One great part is that if my internet dies (it seems to go out like once/month), I can still stream whatever, so my setup is better IMO than streaming services.
Subscriptions are for suckers, but that doesn't mean piracy is the only alternative. I only pirate stuff I can't get legally at a reasonable price (e.g. old movies/shows, streaming service exclusives, etc).
Exactly. Couple years ago when everything was on netflix I gladly gave them money but now it feels like every season of every somewhat good show is on a different platform.
Yup. That's why I cancelled my Disney+ sub (just bought the 3-4 shows my kids watch) and I'm pushing my wife to cancel Netflix. We'd rather not pirate, but I'm not going to keep paying for a sub that either has ads (screw that) or isn't worth the price of content.
I've been a Netflix sub for ~10 years, and now I'm trying to cancel because their value prop has fallen off a cliff.
I don't have a problem with people paying for things. I just don't know why people pay for things when they don't actually get freedom from that service in return. It's all DRM-encumbered crap
Just rename Jellyfin into DisneyFlix++ or whatever.
Or use Kodi with that Netflix skin.
Or just share screen from your phone on TV.
You phone is always on VPN to home network, right?
Anon's gf is a normie
Setup Servarr and get all the women
My wife has learned the way of stremio and loves it, there is hope!
Yeah, I'm poor. Deal with it.
I've had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all "what's a computer?" level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they've never complained since.
Manual torrenting? Fucking hell, that's some weak ass shit, i have all my shit on my plex/jellyfin server
Anon should just get Popcornflix. Or torrent ahead of time.
Similar to a Yellow Canary program based on logic principles
50 tabs? She dodged a bullet.
Rookie numbers. Real chads have >100.
Anon doesn't know about streaming sites.
One site, no torrents, legally good(so far), and all you need is basic ad-blocks to enjoy a Netflix like experience with a better interface.
She deserved a pirate Chad, and she knew it, he has spaghetti falling out his pockets like a soyjack.
Torrents tend to be more reliable quality; around here, they're both equal in legality/illegality, and you don't have to think about your Internet connection.
The actual trick is having done it earlier, not trying on the couch right beforehand.
In many places there is a big legal distinction between consuming and distributing copyrighted content, when torrenting you are doing both.
You can opt out of seeding it's just not very nice
My favourite has always been Stremio + Real-Debrid
Torrent is more reliable than paid a services like Prime Video. My wife got pissed watching one of her shows on Prime. It kept on buffering and quality was trash. I torrented the entire season, put up a JellyFin server. She was so happy.
Tldr: Prime video is trash.