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Re: Put.io

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Post by silvertab »

girvo wrote: post #49
ninkendo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. gu…

Another interesting option is Beamer[1]. Bought it a while ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it... Just drag any video on it and stream it to your AppleTV in seconds.

[1] http://beamer-app.com/

Re: Put.io

#52

Post by nostromo »

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. :(

I imagine hosting this service in the US would create all sorts of liabilities.

Re: Put.io

#53

Post by msoad »

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

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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?

They make a RSS feed of your content that you can subscribe like a podcast

Re: Put.io

#54

Post by lelandbatey »

silvertab wrote: post #50
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!

How do you have a $5 plan? I don't see it listed anywhere on the pricing page: http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png

Re: Put.io

#55

Post by xerophtye »

Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download that data) each time i want to view that file...

Re: Put.io

#56

Post by silvertab »

lelandbatey wrote: post #54
silvertab wrote: post #50

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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!

How do you have a $5 plan? I don't see it listed anywhere on the pricing page: http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png

Interesting, they used to offer a 10GB plan for $5 (which I've always been on: http://d.pr/i/WDEK ) . Apparently it's not available anymore! However, I was never asked to upgrade my plan (I didn't even know the plan I was on didn't exist anymore before today!)

Re: Put.io

#57

Post by gdrulia »

notfed wrote: post #11
tlongren wrote: post #5

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https://put.io/dmca

So...it's sort of like the same as downloading torrents only you pay them money and also there's people watching what you're downloading. Cool.

Not just any money, price plans are quite drastic ones.

Re: Put.io

#58

Post by msoad »

These are the reasons put.io is awesome:

    - It caches torrents that other people downloaded(popular torrents) so if you add them, they are in your library immediately
    - You can subscribe to RSS feeds of TV shows from showrss.info without needing to download every show individually 
    - You can install the XBMC app to access you content there
    - A REST API? Yup! They have it!
    - It converts videos to MP4 on their cloud 
    - You can use multi-connection downloaders to reach to speeds like 30Mbps
    - There are many apps to use with put.io

Re: Put.io

#59

Post by cloudwalking »

xerophtye wrote: post #55

Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download…

  - You don't need to seed.
  - Your ISP won't throttle your torrent packets.

Re: Put.io

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Post by silvertab »

pfisch wrote: post #44
jamesaguilar wrote: post #17

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Gets 5 MB/s to me in CA.

Usenet is like 16+ MB/s What is the point of this?

One advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)
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