I personally love torrents, their decentralized nature will make them last forever.
I would love to see a client that shows you a full catalog of movies and shows and downloads right from the client. If I choose a movie it will just start downloading it right there and can let me watch it in a few minutes. Basically similar to popcorn time but actually maintained, and also supports a vpn.
My family still likes to use streaming services because they choose something off of Netflix and watch. It would be nice to have the same experience with torrents.
Torrents are pretty much perfect, but are held back by peoples slow internet connections. If ISPs provided symmetrical connections (e.g. 100MBit/s down and up) P2P file sharing would be everywhere.
Sadly most providers in Germany heavily favor download speed. E.g. a friend of mine has fiber optics 250MBit/s down and 50MBit/s up. That’s a 5:1 ratio!
PS: Symmetrical connections would also be great for other use cases. E.g. simple, e2e encrypted P2P video conferences.
Currently in video calls with more than a few people, a device sends it’s video stream to a server which then sends it to all other participants. This increases cost for Zoom/Teams which then get passed to it’s users.
The better solution would be for each device to send it’s video stream to all other participants directly (p2p). This would result in video stream bandwidth times the amount of participants (e.g. 5mbit x 10 participants = 50mbit/s up).
A combination of Sickchill, Jackett, Deluge and Plex with one custom script run by Deluge does exactly this for me, on a VPN connection. I search in Jackett, click the upload to blackhole button, Deluge automatically downloads it, then calls a script for Sickchill to rename, categorize and move to my videos folder, and the same script calls a Plex API to rescan the library.
I personally love torrents, their decentralized nature will make them last forever.
I would love to see a client that shows you a full catalog of movies and shows and downloads right from the client. If I choose a movie it will just start downloading it right there and can let me watch it in a few minutes. Basically similar to popcorn time but actually maintained, and also supports a vpn.
My family still likes to use streaming services because they choose something off of Netflix and watch. It would be nice to have the same experience with torrents.
Looks like Stremio ! OK, it streams the file from torrents but it can also download it if you have a debrid (like realdebrid) linked to it.
My biggest complaint is
Only 1 user page.
No ‘kid friendly’ version.
Recommendations are missed.
Sometimes torrents are not named right. I just watched an entire series backwards (it wasn’t good in either direction)
I have to check that. Safe using it?
If you use a VPN or Debrid service, yes. Otherwise, your ISP probably won’t like you openly torrenting :)
I openly torrent without a VPN, buy my ISP doesn’t care. It’s a closed tracker, could that be the reason?
Yeah Private Trackers are typically protected from copyright notices.
I miss popcorn time
Torrents are pretty much perfect, but are held back by peoples slow internet connections. If ISPs provided symmetrical connections (e.g. 100MBit/s down and up) P2P file sharing would be everywhere.
Sadly most providers in Germany heavily favor download speed. E.g. a friend of mine has fiber optics 250MBit/s down and 50MBit/s up. That’s a 5:1 ratio!
PS: Symmetrical connections would also be great for other use cases. E.g. simple, e2e encrypted P2P video conferences.
Currently in video calls with more than a few people, a device sends it’s video stream to a server which then sends it to all other participants. This increases cost for Zoom/Teams which then get passed to it’s users.
The better solution would be for each device to send it’s video stream to all other participants directly (p2p). This would result in video stream bandwidth times the amount of participants (e.g. 5mbit x 10 participants = 50mbit/s up).
A combination of Sickchill, Jackett, Deluge and Plex with one custom script run by Deluge does exactly this for me, on a VPN connection. I search in Jackett, click the upload to blackhole button, Deluge automatically downloads it, then calls a script for Sickchill to rename, categorize and move to my videos folder, and the same script calls a Plex API to rescan the library.
I get almost this experience with Jellyseerr and jellyfin. I do have to wait ~10 min for it to download and import to my library, though.