Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by subway » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir.

It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by plodder » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

Windows version : virus alert reported. Artemis!F9DDCC2E5FB8

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

#23

Post by Fogest » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

mckie41 wrote: post #6

Fogest wrote: post #2

It looks quite nice, but I am wondering if this is like a popcorn time kinda thing where I can stream any show that may not even be on my harddrive, or if this is a product meant for indexing my harddrive and streaming it to any device like Plex?

yes you can steam any tv show or movie without it being on you HDD to be honest its hell of a lot better than popcorntime and safer as it uses add-on's for the torrents and if the movie or tv show you want is not their simply drag the magnet link into stremio :-) and the team on facebook are very responsive if you ever need help or have any questions :-)

And from the sounds of this peer to peer networking is being used. Does that mean that when I use the program I am acting as a peer? Or did I misread this?

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by TheCoreh » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC

subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse) a weird install script for them to `curl | sh`.

OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources.

Windows is a mess under the hood with all the registry fiddling an installer has to do, but there are dozens of existing alternatives out there already, both free and commercial which abstract that away.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

#25

Post by seivan » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 9:28 PM UTC

I wonder if the iOS app is made with React Native. It's scroll performance is horrible. iPhone 5, iOS 9.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by fernandotakai » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

i got burned a lot by these kind of software, so now i untar everything inside a tmp directory inside my home. it's just a pita when people archive stuff with a main dir.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

#27

Post by matthewbauer » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

This reminds me a lot of Boxee. It basically did what it looks like Stremio did- aggregates video content from multiple streaming services. Maybe this will be more popular though because we definitely have more streaming options than we did back in 2008.

But why is it a desktop app? It looks like most of the content is available on the web. I think I'd rather just use that than download some app like this.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by xfalcox » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

Are you planning to get the Android version compatible with Android TV? I bought an amazon fire TV for my dad, who can't handle tech very well, and a running streamio with subtitles working would be the greatest Christmas gift ever for a movie aficionado.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by shmerl » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 10:48 PM UTC

subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

Doesn't tarball unpack only under current directory? Don't unpack it in $HOME (that's already asking for trouble). Try $HOME/tmp.

You can also check the contents before unpacking with mc or using tar directly if you prefer.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

#30

Post by lamby » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 10:54 PM UTC

TheCoreh wrote: post #24

subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse)…

> OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources.

It surely trades this with a bunch of other problems, such as excessive embedding of third-party code copies.

(This is particularly problematic for video decoder code given the number of exploits in this area.)