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Re: Put.io

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Post by silvertab »

berberous wrote: post #39
silvertab wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV. They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do). Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they…

How do you stream to an Apple TV? Are you just AirPlay mirroring from you laptop's browser?

I just visit put.io from my iPhone or iPad and from there I stream the video and send it to the Apple TV via Airplay. There's also a couple of free 3rd party native iOS apps that let you connect to your put.io account, and stream the videos, but they're not really necessary. Never had much luck with AirPlay mirroring with my Macbook Air, it's always laggy in my experience.

So yeah, you do need either an iPad or iPhone to do it, however Put.io has a Roku app if you have one of these.

Re: Put.io

#42

Post by uladzislau »

I was using it for some time until they started to use all kind of tricks to force me to upgrade to the more expensive plans. It started from $5, then I was paying $10 and after the next "upgrade or we remove your account", I cancelled.

Re: Put.io

#43

Post by ninkendo »

berberous wrote: post #39
silvertab wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV. They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do). Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they…

How do you stream to an Apple TV? Are you just AirPlay mirroring from you laptop's browser?

If you use Plex (and you really should:)

https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect

PlexConnect is a simple DNS server that rewrites requests to trailers.apple.com to your local machine (where a daemon is running that responds to requests from your Apple TV.) It then takes the place of the "Trailers" app, and requires only that you change your AppleTV DNS server config to your own machine, and that you install their SSL certificate in your AppleTV's certificate store.

You can edit your AppleTV's certificate store with an Apple-developed program called Apple Configurator (in the OSX App Store for free) so at least it doesn't requires anything like jailbreaking.

Re: Put.io

#44

Post by pfisch »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #17
lowglow wrote: post #3

From the FAQ ( http://faq.put.io/ ): > Why are downloads from put.io to my computer slow? > Well the biggest factor is your location. Our servers are in Netherlands. - I guess this is why I torrent. :(

Gets 5 MB/s to me in CA.

Usenet is like 16+ MB/s

What is the point of this?

Re: Put.io

#45

Post by gfunk911 »

I use and love put.io. Completely hassle free. I'd never go back.

The killer feature is instant completion of torrents if someone else has already downloaded them. I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it.

Re: Put.io

#47

Post by duochrome »

You never heard of Xunlei? It's a Chinese product and it's like just $20 a year.

Xunlei has a huge network and it's very likely the content you want is already in their server and has been encoded.

Re: Put.io

#48

Post by neurostimulant »

notfed wrote: post #7

"With put.io...you won't be hogging all the bandwidth." - How could this possibly save bandwidth?

Many people use ISP-provided router that choked when there are a lot of open connections. A torrent client will usually try to open as many connections as possible, pushing the router to the limit. Under that condition, if another user join the network and tried to browse the internet, he'll encounter a lot of connection timeout error. The only way to avoid this issue is to configure the torrent client to play nice (limit the number of connections) or tweak the router QoS settings to lower priority for torrents traffic (not sure if it's possible with encrypted torrents).

source: my apartment shares a single dsl router to all its tenants

Re: Put.io

#49

Post by girvo »

ninkendo wrote: post #43
berberous wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you stream to an Apple TV? Are you just AirPlay mirroring from you laptop's browser?

If you use Plex (and you really should:) https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect PlexConnect is a simple DNS server that rewrites requests to trailers.apple.com to your local machine (where a daemon is running that responds to requests from your Apple TV.) It then takes the place of the "Trailers" app, and requires only that you change your AppleTV DNS server config to your own machine, and that you install their SSL cer…

Uh, holy crap??? That's amazing. I hadn't even thought of trying something like that. That's brilliant and ingenious. At this point I'd just resigned myself to transcoding where needed (usually just need to change the container, which takes one ffmpeg command, and about 2 minutes for a one hour video) and let iTunes handle everything, but I have a major soft spot for Plex and miss using it. That's just phenomenal. gushing.stop();

Re: Put.io

#50

Post by silvertab »

uladzislau wrote: post #42

I was using it for some time until they started to use all kind of tricks to force me to upgrade to the more expensive plans. It started from $5, then I was paying $10 and after the next "upgrade or we remove your account", I cancelled.

Wow, a bit surprised to hear that! What kind of tricks are we talking about? I've been on their $5 plan for over a year and have never heard anything from them about upgrading!
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