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

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Post by palata » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

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. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.

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

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Post by palata » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:04 PM UTC

dividuum wrote: post #49

shrx wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any info on why they dropped support for H264 hardware decoding?

The software decoder is fast enough: See https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2145762#p2145...

Or they did not want to pay for the license, or for the component.

The software decoder is not fast enough if you need to use the CPUs in parallel. So removing the hardware acceleration is a net loss of compute power.

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

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Post by Saris » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:17 PM UTC

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. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

How is that nothing? They would be seeding the whole time while watching.

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

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Post by alias_neo » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:31 PM UTC

ajot wrote: post #48

alias_neo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not aware of there being an official Android TV release of Lineage, there's an unofficial one according to XDA. Ideally for something I'll run on my TV, I'll want something likely to continue receiving support. I imagine Streamio is more likely to continue receiving support/updates as long as they're focused on maintaining the platform. If there's an official Lineage Android TV for RPi or x86 that'd of course be…

There are some offical Android TV builds: Dynalink and Walmart Onn (2021) https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dopinder/ https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/wade/ Radxa zero SBC https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/radxa0/ Google Chromecast with Google TV (4K) (check on XDA thread, I'm not sure on the current status on bootloader and Widevine) https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sabrina/ For Raspberry Pi, there's konstakan…

Thanks for the links.

The Kang one is the Pi version I spotted. The Walmart devices in assuming are US. Radxa could be decent if we get builds for the Zero3.

The Chromecast one could work but last I checked there was no unlock for the newer devices with 4K.

Ideally I want hardware I won't have to battle to keep control over (getting too old and jaded for that).

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

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Post by myself248 » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:47 PM UTC

palata wrote: post #51

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. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work. I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can tota…

Most home internet connections don't have enough upload bandwidth to do that.

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

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Post by Ajedi32 » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

Saris wrote: post #53

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. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work. How is that nothing? They would be seeding the whole time while watching.

I think a big part of the problem is that consumer internet upload speeds are often way slower than download speeds. So they might download 1 GB of data but only have time to seed 50 MB before the stream is over.

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

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Post by Saris » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 3:58 PM UTC

Ajedi32 wrote: post #56

Saris wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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. How is that nothing? They would be seeding the whole time while watching.

I think a big part of the problem is that consumer internet upload speeds are often way slower than download speeds. So they might download 1 GB of data but only have time to seed 50 MB before the stream is over.

True, although most TV shows are around 10-15Mbps, so even with a pretty slow upload they should be able to seed at least what they've downloaded over the time it takes to watch it.

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

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Post by shelled » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

Rinzler89 wrote: post #23

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.

> That's why private trackers are the best

After almost a decade on private trackers (used to carefully ensure to seed from my laptop even in college when I didn't have much Internet hours or home connection during my early career as it was too costly) and remaining a model citizen I was finally banned by admin(s) of a top tracker for "suspected" fraudulent activities or cheating. That is it. Suspected and banned. Suspected where? On an unrelated social media site because I respectfully criticized a tracker.

When people say private trackers are by teens or (wo)man-teens with extremely fragile egos I always thought it was nuts until I came across some. They are really trigger happy and touchy.

I made peace with it. Slowly let all go of all the accounts. Just let it be. I first thought I will reach out to them for a/c deletions etc, but then I thought it was not worth it. Besides it's all a "seedbox dump" (I had one during my last 5-6 years there, so yeah I am guilty as well) and there's no community. Hoard and seed and hoard and seed and no talking about it and if you talk you always have to walk on egg shells. So it has not been the same. Not since the days of WCD; and that too is a maybe.

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

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Post by 2Gkashmiri » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 4:18 PM UTC

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…

Been always a popcorntime guy. From literal day one of its launch

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

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Post by fckgw » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 4:21 PM UTC

palata wrote: post #51

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. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work. I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can tota…

>I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.

How do you come to this conclusion? The average residential home upload speed is abysmal.