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Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by nilsherzig »

Stremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins.

People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built.

But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by hnthx »

nilsherzig wrote: post #21

Stremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins. People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built. But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Mean…

Asking for a friend, if you are a Stremio user, how would you easily contribute back to the network ?

Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by Rinzler89 »

nilsherzig wrote: post #21

Stremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins. People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built. But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Mean…

>But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network.

That's why private trackers are the best. As a member you're mandated to seed what you download for a minimum amount of time or data, which IMHO should be mandatory for P-2-P networks, otherwise the whole concept falls apart if everyone is selfish and only does hit-and-runs.

Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by phh »

ssl-3 wrote: post #14
roumenguha wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ideal setup takes advantage of Real-Debrid or other seedbox services.

The ideal setup takes advantage of Usenet.

Usenet is my main source, but I'm not aware of anyone implementing streaming over it? Sounds nightmarish to implement really

Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by mooncakes_ooohh »

nilsherzig wrote: post #21

Stremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins. People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built. But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Mean…

The more reliable way of using Stremio is through real-debrid anyway - meaning the torrents are cached on a server for direct streaming.

Re: Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

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Post by boffinAudio »

nilsherzig wrote: post #21

Stremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins. People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built. But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Mean…

Stremio OS is a good open-ended solution to the problem of non-active torrent users. In the existing desktop client, the user only participates while watching a particular stream - but with Stremio OS, the capability for torrent participation is a lot more viable.

Watch for an update to Stremio in the near future with a toggle for 'participate in torrent sharing while not watching' ..

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