It needs to be able to distinguish the different types (DVDRIP, TS, etc...)
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Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
#52I'd like to be able to set a minimum quality for torrents that appear in the RSS of my watchlist. This allows me to add it to the watchlist when it's widely promoted when it launches, and watch it when eventually a good torrent appears of the movie. I've been looking for an aggregator that does this for a long time, but still haven't found it.
Definitely, definitely, very strongly on our TODO list.
Consider this a first step :)
Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
#53A lot of torrent movie downloaders check for the "type of" print available - CamRip, Blue Ray RIP, DV RIP etc. It would be great if you could display these after the search goes through. It would make the movie download decision 1-click.
I ran into the same problem and I just moused-over the "Download" link. Scene releases almost always include basic info like TS, resolution, etc. in the .torrent filename.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check - Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned. [1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can…
I'm confused. If you're not located in the US, why do you need to be DMCA-compliant?
Why create yet more problems for yourself?
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The only reason I still use tpb is the comments will usually let you know if a torrent is of poor quality, passworded, etc. Consider adding peer ratings for video and audio quality.
Passworded torrents? Dear god, where have you been? As for poor quality etc. here's our stance: by default, the first search result should be a release of 1) reasonable quality 2) reasonably well seeded. For power users, we're working on user settings to adjust your preferences for release groups, etc. Of course, working from a .avi/.mkv/.mp4 file would be optimal because we'd be able to get a lot of codec info from…
I just got a fake game of thrones torrent the other day trying to download it shortly after airing. Granted this wouldn't be a problem for a torrent that isn't very recently created.
Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check - Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned. [1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can…
I'm confused. If you're not located in the US, why do you need to be DMCA-compliant?
The extradition of the British kid who only linked to external content, and the extradition attempt of Kim Dotcom makes you wonder.
Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
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cf. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054667 Displaying by default would confuse lambda users. How would you solve it UX-wise?
I notice you are trying to display quality, like HD1080 on this movie[1]. But doesn't this HD1080 label seem a little inconsistent with the file size? 1. http://movies.io/m/37 Another example[2], variously tagged HD720 and HD1080, with the latter clearly wrong. 2. http://movies.io/m/4o
Definitely: some results are wrong. We're working from text data, so it's kinda inaccurate sometimes.
We plan to develop our own crawler (instead of relying on other search engines), and refine our heuristics for tags / flagging false torrents.
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Hover over the 'download' link and you'll see the full release name :)
The only reason I still use tpb is the comments will usually let you know if a torrent is of poor quality, passworded, etc. Consider adding peer ratings for video and audio quality.
I don't know about other software, but uTorrent has ratings and comments that get distributed through the swarm.
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But still not great from a UX perspective. It would definitely be a plus if this is added. Some method to let other users curate the content would be great too. On the TPB this can be done at looking at the colored skull or the comments. Improving on this method would be great. I don't know whether linking to a release site is practical and desirable? EDIT: also order by date. If I type hunger, hunger games should be…
Ordering by date is a good idea, although maybe unpractical? ('relevance' is the criterion right now). And, agreed, relying on tooltips for critical info is not good. But, again: how do you separate beginners (who would be confused by the release name) and seasoned users (who are pissed that it's not there by default) ? Linking to a release site would be over the line. There's a lot to do for user-curated content, wa…
Ordering might be improved by also using the IMDB rating. If it's an old movie that has a low score, I'm probably not interested. If it scores well, it's probably still quite popular and thus of interest.
Maybe you can signal the type of the release with an icon?
I'm very interested in what you come up for curation, good luck with that!