Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid
You can thank me later
Even after RD’s massive anti-piracy swing?
I tried put.io and Torbox but they throw errors even when I can see they downloaded the torrent
Never had any issues. It works perfectly when I use it with 1337x and TBP.
Dont know why they’re beefing with those trackers specifically, but it doesn’t affect Stremio’s operations one bit. I can still stream any movie or show I want instantly to my TV.
Alas, you can always use a different Debrid service. I simply prefer R-D because it’s the most popular, which means that tends to have more content available for instant stream rather than having to wait for seeds. Almost every torrent I want has already been cached by another user for instant download.
stremio and RD are not the same. if RD goes down stremio app/site won’t be affected just the addon
Yes I understand that. I never said that they were the same. You don’t need R-D to use Stremio, but it’s a much smoother experience if you do, cause you can stream instantly without waiting for seeds.
The point I’m making is that any drama involving R-D beefing with trackers doesn’t affect the amount of content available on Stremio. Other trackers exist to fill in the gaps. That’s all I’m saying.
anti-piracy swing?
All bark, no bite
I didn’t know about any swing and started using it for the past month with no issues so far
French gov recently went after them and they made a big thing about not hosting copyrighted content, but as far as I can tell nothing’s changed.
Their entire reason to exist is to host copyrighted content. They’re just telling the French what they want to hear to get them off of their asses.
What do you mean? I use solely use it as an off-site Linux iso cache.
Why later? I’ll thank you right fucking now!
Thank you kind sir.
Enjoy! Debrid can also unrestrict file sharing sites like katfile, scribd, etc.
Wait what? I have RD and I didn’t know I could use it for scribd!
I didn’t know for months either until I was trying to help someone find an elusive pdf only available there. Were close to just making a scribd trial when I thought to try.
Haven’t tried recently but it likely still works.
Edit: still does!
Anyone who still forks money to billionaires for entertainment might be stupid.
I agree with the sentiment but if a large majority would stop using these services and pirating wouldn’t it result in either less entertainment or more crackdowns?
Nope. It resulted in the original Netflix, aka a service that actually worked and had everything we wanted for a time. Direct reaction to mass piracy and actually reduced it by 90℅ iirc.
You also can’t crack down on non centralized services and the more decentralized nodes, the harder the job becomes and the more expensive. At some point it will become uneconomic to go after pirates.
And, yes there will be massively less movies & shows which is very good. We live in a fresh hell where billionaires push out half baked shit every week and the only way to tell them is to not buy it.
They really should have just built their own Netflix but profits get split amongst the copyright holders. Every single one of their analysts was warning them what would have happened if they couldn’t solve this real world game theory problem.
Good points, thanks for taking the time to explain your point. I strongly agree with the on about the quantity of slop churned out nowadays.
The slop is an unfortunate consequence of the streaming model.
Because there is so much content on streaming and it’s so readily accessible, watching a movie isn’t an “event” anymore in the way it was when DVD or VHS was the only option. And when you pair this with second-screen devices (phones) then it all adds up to people treating movies as background entertainment while they scroll their phone or do something else.
And because of that, the way shows and movies are produced has changed, too. The reason everything seems like homogenous cookie-cutter crap is because it is. In fact Netflix have specifically been asking producers to dumb content down so viewers can still understand it even when they are only paying half attention.
Of course, there are still talented people out there making great movies and shows, but they are increasingly drowned in a sea of copy-paste mediocrity.
And I do feel sorry for all those perhaps equally talented but less senior writers, directors, editors and artists who might never get to produce a movie they are truly proud of, because they’ve been captured by the streaming content factory that demands of them only a constant treadmill of dumbed-down slop, cheap and quick and instantly forgettable - and that people will only ever half-watch.
This is indeed a crying shame. I do not understand the concept of watching a movie while scrolling on my phone but maybe that’s just because I grew up with VHS and normal TV programing.
Again, thanks for the detailed reply, it was very interesting!
I found a VHS player at a second hand shop and got into buying and watching VHS before the pandemic and it was actually relaxing. Even with DVD/Blu ray I can’t get as immersed as I was with watching VHS. I would know that at night I was going to watch D.A.R.Y.L and just kick back and not get off the couch. It was a whole thing…power surge fried my player and haven’t found another one yet
Sad to hear about your player, sounds like you had good thing going. There’s something different about the experience, I agree with you.
The current model has its own issues. The amount of series that are cancelled after the first or second season is ludicrous. Also, and I’m not sure if it’s related to streaming or the constant writer’s strikes, but series have reduced from 16-26 episodes per season from the height of the piracy-era to 6-10 nowadays.
If the reduction in piracy led to this deterioration in quality, then I can’t imagine it could get any worse if everyone started pirating again.
Personally, I reckon it will incentivise the numbskulls in charge that no one is going to pay for 48 separate streaming services and they’ll be forced to adapt (likely via packaging/merging streaming services together).
They just need to start bundling with other things
What options do you guys have where you are? In UK we have:
Now/Sky Amazon Prime Netflix Paramount + Apple TV Britbox Disney+ Free ones are BBC, ITV/STV, Channel 4, My5
May have missed some.
Only using jellyfin and it has everything I pirate
i have seen this meme the third time the last few days and i’m always like: rent where?
i don’t get it. does it mean, the movie isn’t available within the services subscription, but costs additional money or does it mean it’s not even in any service and you rent it somewhere else?
On some services like Amazon Prime you can rent a movie for 24h (or something like that)
You can also “buy” movies, but I’ve seen so many times that they take away the movie that you “bought” and you don’t get a refund.
You can also rent on YouTube, and even buy there, so you can always access your cherished movies in reliable and enduring Google Services.
iTunes, Amazon Prime or Youtube has movies to buy and rent. Lots of newer movies take a long time to appear on streaming if at all. I rent quite a lot on iTunes. It’s a fiver and no hassle. Some are a bit special, like Nosferatu costs 16 just to rent it, yeah no I’ll wait.
Also buying on iTunes has been worth it for me as they will give you higher quality versions later on without additional cost. Way back I got Home Alone for free in the advent calendar in SD and now I can watch the same in 4K.
Downside of course is you don’t really own anything.
It costs additional money and only for a 1 time viewing, example Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
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Blocked on .world.
It’s really time to switch.
Aar…
*Arr
'rent > rent
If I want to pay money, I’ll buy the DVD. If I just want it one time, I have ways and means.
DVDs are like 480p quality
At least get regular blurays
Blu-Ray is a pain to play in VLC, for the times I do want to play it on PC. Besides, I can’t much see beyond 480i and roughly 30fps. And I can’t rip it as easily.
You don’t read them into Jellyfin? I just assumed you used MakeMVK.
I dont like having DVDs everywhere.
if they offered DRM free paid downloads so i could give them my money and just host it myself i probably would give them my money.
but they don’t, so i sail
Given that physical media comes with DRM I can’t see that happening
That is fair. But I’ve had more HDD failure than DVD disc rot so far. I prefer physical media which doesn’t require engaging my computer.
You can mitigate against HDD failure with RAID and backups.
I have two 8TB HDDs in a RAID1 configuration. if one dies i can remove the dead one and add a new one to the array and the data will sync back across from the good drive. I also have two 10TB drives in rotation going to offsite storage. every now and again i backup my server to one of these drives, take it to the place i store them and swap them over.
Only thing i’m missing from the 321 rule is different mediums, considering the amount of data i’m dealing with though the cost of backing up to tape though was prohibitative
I swear when I first heard 321 it was “at least 3 copies of the data in at least 2 physical locations with at least one copy being offline” but now I’m hearing of different storage mediums instead of different locations
I may be wrong but my understanding was 3 copies of the data, across two storage formats, with one offsite
Physical media is the way
Debrid-link* + Stremio
*or any other debrid service (Real-Debrid shut down)
Wait what, when did they shut down?
I’m still using them afik
Just looked into it a bit more, turns out they’re still working, but:
RD received a formal notice from the National Federation of Film Publishers (probably law suit) so RD has to comply and strengthen anti piracy measures.
That started with the deactivation of the API endpoint /instantavailability which is what 3rd party app add ons like torrentio and Fen Lite/Cocoscrapers used to scrape streamable cached links (I think)
The notice also included a blocking of torrents and purge of the cache of specific media, we don’t know the full extent of this yet but it seems many links are already being blocked
The reason torrentio is working with RD again is because the torrentio dev built a workaround so that it will still use RD to pull links we just aren’t able to see if they are cached or not, I do not know if this is a permanent fix but as far as I can tell, things will continually get worse for RD, not better.
Can you elaborate or redirect to further investigate how this could be used?
Seems like this explain it pretty well, though Stremio has basically an app for every device, not only the firestick:
https://champagne.pages.dev/piracy-guides/firestick/#stremio--trakt
Also, I don’t remember doing the “Trakt” part when setting up, just used Debrid and Torrentio to connect it to Stremio.
Sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️
Having no blue ray player and a desperate desire to watch anything studio ghibli ruined me. Thank god hbo picked it up but now I’m desensitized and relieved when the things I want to watch appear on amazon or apple TV.
I picked up a Blu Ray player not all that long ago, and even there selection is kind of surprisingly limited.
You’d be less depressed if you got some sea air into.
Do you not have a PS3? Or a PS4? Or a PS5? Or a PS6?
Wait, are you a time traveler?
Show the Pain Harold
yarrr matey
Aaarrr, really? Now what is one supposed to doaaaarrr?
Sure, but let’s not pretend like it’s just a one click like streaming legally. My wife and kid would have zero clue how to go about it. But I agree, every time I wanna watch something in particular it’s never on any of the networks, or in one of the ones I don’t have.
Also you can’t get everything through torrents, only popular stuff or current stuff, anything else you might be lucky to get one seeder or two
If you are tech savy you can get almost whatever you want with a one click, just like legal streaming, and eve with more quality
If you aren’t you can hook up a plex server from a friend or use things like magisTv or similar
Another guy in this thread linked an amazing resource for learning:
Personally Ive got a pirate streaming service which has a mobile app and desktop website to stream anything from Netflix, apple, Disney, Hulu, prime, etc pretty much every service out there and new episodes pop up within a day. It’s no different than opening up the Netflix app. It’s pretty damn easy and convenient. Not perfect as sometimes it lags and you need to watch in lower quality but so much more convenient having everything in one spot than needing to search 5 different apps for something to watch.
Can you share it please ?
can you please dm me so that I can avoid it.
My wife and kid love watching stuff on Plex. We might even watch some Dog Man tonight if we have time, then maybe I’ll get to continue The Expanse with my wife after the kid goes to bed.
I set some stuff up automatically, but still do a bunch more manually because it’s easy enough. Once I’ve set it up, the user experience and the A/V quality are excellent.
I’ve even started putting a bunch of FLAC albums into Plex to use it for my music streaming. We Get YouTube music for free but it can get obnoxious to actually use throughout the day.
My wife and kids have a clue - they just tell me to download it. The little ones will learn their piracy lessons on coffee shop wifi, not at our home.
If you setup streamio it’s literally as easy as using Netflix. And it has everything, it’s extremely rare that i find anything that i can’t watch
Except it defaults to something like iMDB in how it lists series and shows and their reviews… And not a single way to watch them. You then have to do quite some digging to find the right addons, and not all links are equally valid…
I understand they avoid liability this way but damn they make it difficult to actually watch something, and even if you manage to get it to listen to Torrrent trackers they don’t really seed back and that makes me feel like scum and that comes from someone who watches films for free.
what’s streamio
A streaming media player that uses a plugin system to greatly customize its capabilities: https://www.stremio.com/
Here’s a guide.
That reminds me, I love the hannya/jolly roger fusion on Majima’s flag in the upcoming Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii! (Which I would not be pirating even if it weren’t Denuvo)
