Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by crossroadsguy » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 4:21 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…

At our place we cancelled Netflix, Prime etc. Even uninstalled Netflix. Stremio offers much better experience than Netflix let alone content.

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

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Post by Narishma » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

shrx wrote: post #46

dividuum wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s incorrect: Both have hardware support for decoding H265 up to 4K. The difference is H264: the Pi4 still has a hardware decoder (up to FullHD) while the Pi5 doesn’t and will use software decoding as it’s more than fast enough. As it is software, there’s no resolution limit.

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

So they don't have to pay the license.

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

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Post by mavamaarten » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

I wish the app was open source. I have plenty of experience with android and video app development and would love to contribute some features. But alas.

As far as their app goes, it's a really good app though. It brings a better experience than most paid alternatives (Netflix, Prime Video, ...)

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

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Post by Sparkyte » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

So I am kind of opposed to piracy but the novel idea of a peer based CDN has its merit. Imagine an encrypted framework where Netflix operates in a peer to peer communication. It would drastically reduce the overhead a streaming service would require to send content to users. If people are all watching the similar content or opt-in to supporting the network chunks of data could stored across many customer peers to complete the mesh. This would allow high quality content with a reduced amount of latency for delivery. It is why piracy took of during the DSL/Cable era. Networks were not fast and streaming could not work that efficiently so a p2p network alievated the stress allowing viewers/listeners to grab media and be quick about it.

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

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Post by WithinReason » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 5:19 PM UTC

boffinAudio wrote: post #29

h4ch1 wrote: post #8

Used it for 2 weeks, shows, movies kept buffering even though it's supposed to use BitTorrent. Switched back to popcorn time, no issues since.

You can add the popcorntime plugin to stremio and get the best of both worlds.

is there one?

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

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Post by WithinReason » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

fckgw wrote: post #60

palata wrote: post #51

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. 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.

it's more than the average video bitrate

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

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Post by tristor » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

Sparkyte wrote: post #64

So I am kind of opposed to piracy but the novel idea of a peer based CDN has its merit. Imagine an encrypted framework where Netflix operates in a peer to peer communication. It would drastically reduce the overhead a streaming service would require to send content to users. If people are all watching the similar content or opt-in to supporting the network chunks of data could stored across many customer peers to com…

Honestly, this would be a great efficiency boost if you could figure out how to manage distributed access, even in the existing model. Content servers in the CDN could act like origins/seedboxes, and pieces could be streamed from other clients based on what's currently contained in their content cache or downloaded episodes bucket. I'd love to see Netflix do something like this as long as it was only for non-mobile clients (e.g. Xbox, AppleTV, et al). I don't mind sharing my upstream with others if it helps smooth delivery for myself.

You'd think this wouldn't work well, but if done properly it'd be at worst equivalent to the current experience (e.g. your entire stream comes only from the closest content server), but Netflix shows tend to have popularity trends so may actually perform better than the current experience because you might be watching the same show as your neighbor, just 20-30 minutes later, and this reduces load on the content servers and raises the overall throughput availability of the total network.

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

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Post by ssl-3 » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

fckgw wrote: post #60

palata wrote: post #51

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. 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.

I may be an outlier, but I have what I believe to be the cheapest plan that the singular viable ISP available to me has to offer. (It is a very large ISP.)

This comes with 10Mbps of upstream bandwidth.

And no, that's not a ton -- but it is substantially more than the bitrate of the h.265/HEVC films I may tend to watch.

If I were streaming with torrents, I would be able to give back more than I consume during the runtime of such a film.

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

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Post by jabroni_salad » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 6:15 PM UTC

jampekka wrote: post #50

nadanke wrote: post #43

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it's funny because, obviously, they can't really advertise this and the torrent extension, but that seems to be the main way people are actually using it. so a lot of people end up trying stremio, and then voice (valid!) criticisms that in reality just don't apply to how people actually use stremio.

I selfishly hope stremio+debrid doesn't come so popular as to be cracked down. It beats all streaming services hands down.

I learned about these keywords from a default subreddit, so bad news in that regard.

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

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Post by Rinzler89 » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 6:27 PM UTC

shelled wrote: post #58

Rinzler89 wrote: post #23

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>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. Su…

Just because you had a shitty private tracker experience doesn't mean they're all bad. Similarly just because a SO from a past relationship broke your heart an betrayed your trust, doesn't mean relationships are bad and will result in the same outcome as yours. YMMV can't be overstated. I'm sure some are toxic, but plenty are not.

I'm on 3 private ones and the content and the communities are great and never got banned or had any issues. I just kept my head down, stayed under the radar, kept chats and interactions to a minimum and only on content topics, and it was smooth sailing for over 10 years.

Basically I treat the trackers only as places to upload and download and that's it, not as places for social interactions like Reddit or HN, as that's where diverging opinions and egos can clash and you can can find yourself banned due to sensitive members abusing the flag button or touchy mods. Similarly how I wouldn't start religious or political debates at work or hit on women there, the risk is too high to offend someone and the rewards basically non existent. It's not worth it. Keep social interaction only on social media, and trackers only for piracy, without mixing them together, and you'll be good.