My biggest gripe with Popcorn Time is that it doesn't run on my TV. I use a cloud server instead and Radarr/Sonarr combined with Real-Debrid(to download torrents) and Usenet to download content. I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating > 6 and a good number of votes.
This allows me to run Plex/Jellyfin on my TV and stream. Bonus points is that it even works on my mobile phone when I'm on the move!
> I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating > 6 and a good number of votes
You do not have all movies >6 with a bunch of votes on just 16TB, unless the cutoff is like 100k+ votes and you're downloading 1080p max. I have a 73TB server at 99% capacity right now and I hardly have a movie library.
Instead of telling someone they're wrong you could just assume they mean 1080p. If we're talking 1080p encodes you can totally do it in that size. If you're using 73TB for barely a collection you're just wasting space.
the advantage of that is that it's all on-demand. no need to set up sonarr/radarr.
Just set up a bunch of trackers to search from and pick from them on demand.
Radar and Sonarr here with Overseerr as an UI for my wife. Bazarr for subs, jackett as a client for torrent sites, unpackerr for unpacking zips. Good old Transmission as download client.
Why do you need a special program to unpack rars? I just use qbittorrent and put this command in the "run external program on torrent finished" box: 7z x "%F/*.rar" -o"%F/"
And how many of these movies have you actually watched? This just sounds like a text book case of digital hoarding. Most people I know that torrent do it on a distinct interest in watching vs might possibly some day maybe want to watch it so let's just get it ahead of time.
I'm not judging, just noting that it's a definite new "use case" to me
I’m not about to do this myself, but I can totally see why someone would. With the way some movies just fall off of streaming services and even rental services and just become unfindable, I’m glad there are people out there keeping independent collections.
It’s quite amazing how much you can do with a working self-hosted setup and a decent amount of storage. The open source community around self-hosted services is stronger than ever.
A few of my favorite lesser known self-hosted projects are Audiobookshelf, Komga (comic/manga reader), and Kavita (ebook/comic/manga reader).
I have a similar setup (32TB NAS + Jellyfin). I use three different Radarr instances (1080p/4k/Anime). Every movie that I've liked on LetterBoxd gets downloaded automatically in 1080p / 4k (1080p for streaming outside my home). Jellyseer allows me to give access to friends and they're able to request stuff easily that's not on streaming. I also use Infuse on AppleTV which has support for Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision. Absolutely amazing once you get it setup, I've been slowly rebuilding my blu-ray collection digitally too.
Plex shares are harder to find now but on Discord you can find servers with 100s of TB of movies and TV show to stream straight from your devices with no work and just a small monthly payment
Really interesting mix of npm packages, gulpfiles, jshint, both underscore and lodash, backbone.js, some stuff i've never really heard of like nedb which is probably because its more specific to electron. It actually uses node-webkit NW.js instead of electron.
It's an interesting mix of new and old things as a project that likely has changed hands many times. Like dayjs is pretty new.
It would be interesting if Github here could put a green check next to the release files certifying they were entirely built from the sources in the repository that link to a corresponding ref/tag SHA. "No external files involved in the build". Obviously this would only be possible if the release files were built by GH Actions and the environment was a special one, absolutely sealed from the open internet that GH would certify, filter and curate.
Still, this would not prevent some shady file in the repo or build hack to go unnoticed, but maybe it could become a starting point for delivering safer binary distributions from open source projects.
The "unsigned" part isn't surprising, considering Apple would never approve it. But the installer package is far from ideal. It's typically only used when a program needs to install a privileged helper service, and I don't know why Popcorn Time would need that?
Edit: It appears to be just a .app file? Unless the .pkg is bundled in there...
Your pet theory is questionable, as the JavaScript (ecosystem) is one of the oldest that's still wildly used everywhere.
The big libs have been pretty stable for the last decade though, even if the ecosystem itself feels quiet messy, likely because there are so many interested parties, each having their own ideas of how it should be.
And it's also often the first language for a lot of beginners. ..
Mixed feelings about this. I do not wish for it to be shut down again, but I hope people realize that every popcorn time user is one less qbitorrent user that accidentally leaves their client open in the background.
I have a theory that most seeding is done by people who are unaware they are doing it or don't even know what it is. Tech like webtorrents, clients for portable devices and this are harmful to the network in the long term.
I use stremio with some torrent plugin. I've read about debrid , but don't really get it's advantage. Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?
> Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?
It's not just that. Streaming from an proper server always beats streaming from P2P connections. The former is much faster to stream, forward, and rewind, making the whole streaming experience better. Especially when watching 4K content or old movies with relatively less number of seeders.
Additionally you can use Infuse if you are in Apple ecosystem and use their AppleTV app to watch everything on your TV! Just setup Infuse with Real Debrid as WebDAV and you're set, you can even get the subtitles downloaded!
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This allows me to run Plex/Jellyfin on my TV and stream. Bonus points is that it even works on my mobile phone when I'm on the move!
You do not have all movies >6 with a bunch of votes on just 16TB, unless the cutoff is like 100k+ votes and you're downloading 1080p max. I have a 73TB server at 99% capacity right now and I hardly have a movie library.
I do have 4K rips for movies I like and new movies, but by default download 1080p hevc only. I stay away from remuxes
Just the most popular stuff and limited to 1080p or less though... Yeah 16Tb is pushing it.
the advantage of that is that it's all on-demand. no need to set up sonarr/radarr. Just set up a bunch of trackers to search from and pick from them on demand.
I'm not judging, just noting that it's a definite new "use case" to me
A few of my favorite lesser known self-hosted projects are Audiobookshelf, Komga (comic/manga reader), and Kavita (ebook/comic/manga reader).
That seems like a lot of movies. How many of those 16TB are used by all movies with IMBD rating > 6 ?
The highest bitrate of 4k Bluray Remux movie in my library is ~90Mbps which translates to 50GiB~80GiB per movie.
Downloading movies is for the stone age!.
It's an interesting mix of new and old things as a project that likely has changed hands many times. Like dayjs is pretty new.
There's no reason it should require an installer package when it can be distributed as a self-contained app.
I'm not giving authorization to an unsigned installer file made by some anonymous Russians.
Still, this would not prevent some shady file in the repo or build hack to go unnoticed, but maybe it could become a starting point for delivering safer binary distributions from open source projects.
Click on that to find a link to download “Popcorn-Time-0.5.0-osx64.zip”, which contains a self-contained [.app] folder.
Edit: It appears to be just a .app file? Unless the .pkg is bundled in there...
IMO this is because the JavaScript ecosystem is speedrunning the decades of lessons learned by the greater software engineering field.
The big libs have been pretty stable for the last decade though, even if the ecosystem itself feels quiet messy, likely because there are so many interested parties, each having their own ideas of how it should be.
And it's also often the first language for a lot of beginners. ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972681
I have a theory that most seeding is done by people who are unaware they are doing it or don't even know what it is. Tech like webtorrents, clients for portable devices and this are harmful to the network in the long term.
beats the old and the new popcorn time
It's not just that. Streaming from an proper server always beats streaming from P2P connections. The former is much faster to stream, forward, and rewind, making the whole streaming experience better. Especially when watching 4K content or old movies with relatively less number of seeders.