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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 didntcheck »

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…

You mean the people going out of their way to pirate content are freeloaders who contribute nothing back, and the service they're enjoying wouldn't exist if everyone behaved like them? How unexpected

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

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Post by Sparkyte »

tristor wrote: post #67
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 c…

Exactly my thoughts! Remember the good old days when World of Warcraft used peer distribution of their installations?

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

dividuum wrote: post #18
schappim wrote: post #9

They state: "While the Raspberry Pi 5 is fully capable of smooth 4K playback, Raspberry Pi 4 will not be able to play 4K content due to hardware limitations." This likely depends on the codec. The Pi 4’s BCM2711 SoC, unlike the BCM2712 in the Pi 5, has hardware support for H.265 (HEVC) up to 4Kp60. However, the Pi 5 can still support H.265 (HEVC) up to 4Kp60 through software-based decoding, thanks to its more powerfu…

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.

Does this custom lineageOS build (or android in general) use the hardware decoding features? I wouldn't be too surprised either way.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

phh wrote: post #24
ssl-3 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"Streaming" from Usenet doesn't sound too bad, really, for many things.

Just automagically download the RARs and PARs for a good release that make sense to get moving, and then: Get moving. (And keep processing as moving forward happens.)

(What makes a "good" release? IDK, but streaming from torrents must be able to be figured out, and outside of torrents nzbget seems to be able to usually figure it pretty quickly from Usenet for me. Neither method is inherently start-to-finish and suitable for "streaming" but that doesn't mean that either of them cannot be made to work.

And one of them apparently does work.)

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

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Post by dlock17 »

tarruda wrote: post #40
hnthx wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It has been a long time since I used stremio, but IIRC it used to have a max cache size for torrent plugins. The default setting was something like 10GB, which means older torrents eventually get deleted after you stream a certain amount of other content. I suspect stremio seeds torrents in the cache directory, so if you increase cache size, you can potentially continue seeding torrents for more time after the initia…

It would be cool if this was true, but no, Stremio does not seed cached files.

https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/626

Somebody made an extension that adds cached torrents to your local qbittorrent instance though, which is a nice alternative.

https://github.com/Vance-ng-vn/Stremio-Seeds

Note: I haven't used this, since I use Stremio from a Chromecast.

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

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Post by shelled »

Rinzler89 wrote: post #70
shelled wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 banne…

I was sharing my experience and from supposedly one of my best. This was my experience. In my experience the experience was shitty or bad as you take it. Are you sharing an empirical study on it? No, you are not.

> Keep social interaction only on social media, and trackers only for piracy, without mixing them together, and you'll be good.

In case it didn't hit home last time: it was not there that I posted or communicated and the ban was based on guess work, there was no possible way to connect the two sites - none so whatsoever. At one place there was no email shared and entirely different username. IPs, yes. And even then I was not being abusive or so. I just disagreed. No, I had not shared my account usernames or so in the past at all!

Anyway, cheers. Have fun there. Those places are actually not bad when you have the time and patience to navigate through that and also keeping the head down. Good luck.

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

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Post by ThatPlayer »

alias_neo wrote: post #36

I have no interest in Streamio, but I have really wanted an Android TV OS I can run on commodity hardware for things like Netflix, YouTube et al, I wonder if this might be a suitable solution? My goal really is to have a sleek, up to date TV OS that doesn't rely on me buying a specific TV or replacing it every 5 years when it stops receiving app updates.

My issue when I looked into this is that, because of DRM (yay), you cannot easily get full HD video on commodity hardware. For example those Konstakang Android TV Raspberry Pi builds will only get Widevine Level 3, which limits you to 480 or 720p on apps like Netflix.

I ended up going with a full Windows Intel N100 mini-PC. Windows because the only way to get 4K Netflix is to either use the Windows app, or Microsoft Edge on Windows. [0] Any Linux would limit me to 720p. And even then others like Max do not support 4K on Windows [1]. I believe Disney+ is the same.

Another choice I wasn't aware of when I got my hardware is Kodi running as an app on an official Android box with Widevine Level 1. Kodi is able to use Android's Winevine allowing for full quality 4K playback through plugins for Netflix [2], Max [3], Disney+ [4]. It leaves you reliant on these (open-source) plugin rather than official apps for all the good and bad.

[0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

[1] https://help.max.com/US-en/Answer/Detail/000002523

[2] https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix?tab=readm...

[3] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2024/06/max-kodi-add-on.html

[4] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/04/disney-plus-kodi-add-on.h...

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

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Post by jmprspret »

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 agree. This is more contribution than leechers who download the torrent then just never seed any of it at all.

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

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Post by Shinolove »

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.

depends on the content length tho, I can download 1 GB of data in 100 seconds but if I am watching it for 20 minutes (which is not unreasonable at all given that torrents for 20 minute TV shows are generally around 1gigs at 1080p) I have 1200 seconds to upload that 1000 MB of data back. That's about 7Mbit upload which is not crazy at all
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