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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by jowsie »

sofixa wrote: post #149
Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

Am i the only one who finds the *arrs to be.. not great? Be it UI, UX, deployability (C# .NET required magic reverse engineered stuff like Mono to work on Linux/*BSD where most people would run them on, and IIRC none of them are on .NET Core yet), error handling. I once spent an afternoon trying to get Jackett go work on FreeNAS due to some library mismatches due to the magic sauce required to run Windows software on…

there's sickbeard, sickrage, couchpotato, and many others that have existed as long as Sonarr if not longer.

I've personally had no issues with the *arr's though, running on both Windows and Linux

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by seam_carver »

cuu508 wrote: post #65
john2x wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> get subtitles working when streaming live to a Chromecast Teach me your ways, sensei.

Not Popcorn Time, but I've had great experience using Airflow (airflow.app) for streaming video to Chromecast. Among other things, it handles subtitles quite well.

Yes, a great app, it does OCR on subtitles that are stored as images and converts to a Chromecast compatible text format so it is incredibly powerful.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by buchoo »

soared wrote: post #2

This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.

Why would they list the movies? Seems counterproductive since you could then broadcast which torrents are monitored.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by londons_explore »

geuis wrote: post #146
londons_explore wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be nice to have popcorn time itself allow the server URL to be edited, so you can either use public servers or your own private one. I don't really see why the same code can't be used for both - it seems such a waste of effort to rebuild everything twice for the only slightly different usecases.

> It would be nice to have popcorn time itself allow the server URL to be edited You can edit it. The option is in the settings.

I don't see it...

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by [deleted] »

catchclose8919 wrote: post #138
freemint wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do not use VPNs for things that require real security. Use Tor!

Tor + (~secure) VPN, but most things like pirating and pr0n DON'T require 'real' security! You want privacy mainly and that's orthogonal to security. If privacy is not enough and you need secrecy ... well, just use your botnet as a VPN and from that get to Tor! (You do own a botnet in this case, that's what you need the secrecy for :P ...otherwise you'd have specialists hired for this at your disposal , or you'd be t…

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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by Kerrick »

sph wrote: post #116
cy_overlord wrote: post #69

Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.

Indeed, web3 should be decentralisation & P2P to move away from silos, not crypto bullshit.

Way back in 2009, Tim Berners-Lee declared Web 3.0 should be about linked data and the semantic web. https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0427-web30-tbl/

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Post by tekromancr »

jdpedrie wrote: post #150
sofixa wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am i the only one who finds the *arrs to be.. not great? Be it UI, UX, deployability (C# .NET required magic reverse engineered stuff like Mono to work on Linux/*BSD where most people would run them on, and IIRC none of them are on .NET Core yet), error handling. I once spent an afternoon trying to get Jackett go work on FreeNAS due to some library mismatches due to the magic sauce required to run Windows software on…

The docker containers have been maintenance free for me and run great on intel and apple cpu.

They run great on arm, too! I got a raspi 4 running everything smooth as butter. The most problematic aspect is interfacing with the usb drives; I eventually had to move them to a powered hub to get the required current.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by haswell »

atemerev wrote: post #155
cy_overlord wrote: post #69

Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.

I think it is doable, I mean, rewriting it for Web3 stacks. But why bother? It works as is.

I read the parent comment differently.

I believe the point is that Popcorn Time is/was a shining example of the decentralized web, to the point that it accomplished some of what “web3” claims it is trying to achieve (for a specific set of use cases), and therefore is “more web3 than crypto”.

Retooling on a “web3 stack” would be pointless, because it is already accomplishing its goal without that stack.

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