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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by sph »

milofeynman wrote: post #135
sph wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best I can do is share my Compose files :) https://gist.github.com/1player/dbdafdd197e1623f5831108fc0cc... It's pretty simple overall: gluetun is the VPN container, qBittorrent runs inside of it and downloads torrents, Jackett is a torrent search aggregator, Sonarr&Radarr use Jackett+qBittorrent to download movies and TV shows when they release, Bazarr adds subtitles after the fact. Everything goes into a media direc…

Which line has the Killswitch?

Gluetun has an integrated killswitch: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

I used to use https://github.com/dperson/openvpn-client which has a killswitch option as well.

By kill-switch I mean iptables rules that don't let anything out if there's no VPN interface up. So you don't run the risk of leaking torrent stuff through your plain-text connection if the VPN goes down.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by Jhsto »

honkdaddy wrote: post #122
Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

With regards to your music library, how do you listen to your music on the go? I tried the self-hosted setup maybe 8 years ago and couldn't find a reliable way to stream to an iOS device. Is that something you've looked into?

I use Plex. There is a music focused player called Plexamp which I use on iOS. This allows also offline downloads. IIRC you need the Plex Pro subscription, but that's around $100 one-off payment.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by dncornholio »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #16
soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.

Instead of calling your ISP, they will call your VPN provider..

VPN doesn't hide your ip, it only makes it harder to look up. I don't think VPN protects you like people think they do.

I don't say you shouldn't use one, but I will say that the most popular VPN providers are probably already backdoored by the US government.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by dncornholio »

Zircom wrote: post #105
rasz wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

with popcorn you are simultaneously distributing, and that is the main problem

Yeah, I have had 0 copyright notices ever just downloading stuff, until literally this last week when I actually decided to stop being a leacher and seeded all the torrents I still had the files downloaded back up to 3x ratio. Got 3 copyright notices in a few days and then they actually flat out turned my internet off this morning until I called them. So finally got around to buying and setting up Mullvad and now all…

Where were you located?

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by smcl »

travjones wrote: post #123
cy_overlord wrote: post #69

Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.

Quoted post unavailable.

My impression is that overall HN was generally enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies and the tech powering them until a few recent scandals and scams. To be honest that is just broadly similar to public opinion (or at least, the portion of the public who have heard of cryptocurrencies)

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by geuis »

londons_explore wrote: post #83
Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

It would be nice to have popcorn time itself allow the server URL to be edited, so you can either use public servers or your own private one. I don't really see why the same code can't be used for both - it seems such a waste of effort to rebuild everything twice for the only slightly different usecases.

> It would be nice to have popcorn time itself allow the server URL to be edited

You can edit it. The option is in the settings.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by underlines »

grishka wrote: post #129
soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

laughs in third-world country

laughts in Switzerland, where you can torrent what ever the heck you want with your 25gbps/25gbps FTTH connection from Init7 for 60USD/month and providers don't do QOS or DPI and there's no limit in how many terrabytes you're torrenting.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by funshed »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #16
soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.

You trust your mobile phone data to some sketchy VPN provider but not your Local ISP?

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by sofixa »

Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

Am i the only one who finds the *arrs to be.. not great? Be it UI, UX, deployability (C# .NET required magic reverse engineered stuff like Mono to work on Linux/*BSD where most people would run them on, and IIRC none of them are on .NET Core yet), error handling. I once spent an afternoon trying to get Jackett go work on FreeNAS due to some library mismatches due to the magic sauce required to run Windows software on FreeBSD. It baffles me 1) that software stack was chosen in the first place 2) it was reused for all other *arrs 3) it still remains in use today 4) there are no alternative tools using a saner tech stack. Not to mention the fact that I don't see the point in having different *arrs for music, films, series, when the functionality is 90% the same and it could just be different toggable tabs... I was so pissed i hesitated trying to rewrite all of it in Django or something.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by jdpedrie »

sofixa wrote: post #149
Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

Am i the only one who finds the *arrs to be.. not great? Be it UI, UX, deployability (C# .NET required magic reverse engineered stuff like Mono to work on Linux/*BSD where most people would run them on, and IIRC none of them are on .NET Core yet), error handling. I once spent an afternoon trying to get Jackett go work on FreeNAS due to some library mismatches due to the magic sauce required to run Windows software on…

The docker containers have been maintenance free for me and run great on intel and apple cpu.
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