Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.
Feel free to use mine https://jfin.gravitywell.xyz/
Create an account using this invite code: ARRLEM so I know you came from Lemmy
For best results uss a browser or client thar supports HEVC and AV1.
There is jellyseerr for requests, its hooked to both usenet and various private trackers.
Thanks dude, that’s very generous!
I mostly use other method/services, but was looking at trying out Jellyfin.
Being able to see your server makes it easy to see an example of how it works.
Thanks again!
You absolute madlad!! Thank you for providing this. I am in the middle of migrating to a new home server and as part of that process, moving away from Plex to Jellyfin. This will be a big help in testing things out and figuring out the idea setups for my use case (like streaming to Apple TVs) ahead of the actual migration. Not to mention some great ideas for movies to snag I wasn’t aware of ;) Sending a couple of coffees your way!!
It looks like we have a fairly similar library size and I’ve always wanted to be able to offer something like this to folks as a way for giving back for all the years of media I’ve been able to gather and enjoy - but I have never felt confident enough in my networking skills to let the vast majority of my services see anything outside of the LAN, let alone provide it to other people. I hope with this new lab environment I am going for I can get to that point, but if you have any pointers I am all ears! 😀 Thanks again, matey!
Thank you very much! Unfortunately after confirming the information in the signup dialog, it says “Please wait” and hangs. Is it me?
Edit: It works on the second try on the computer, thanks again
thank you!! How can I buy you a coffee?
I suppose the easiest way is probably ko-fi
There is also librepay and some crypto addresses options listed on the bottom of the main page https://gravitywell.xyz/ if you prefer that.
How does your create account system with invite codes work? Is jellyfin tied to another system for account management?
I’m using WizARR for the invite system, it links directly into jellyfin.
This is a gem, I’ve had my plex server for a few years now and the hardest part was getting some older friends on it, this seems to streamline that, I appreciate you
Invalid Code :(
oops, I set it to a one time use and someone used it. New one (ARRLEM) should work for everyone now. Valid for 1 month as of this posting.
OMG, that’s an amazing effort. Definitely saving it!
Check out stremio
This is what I use. Stremio, Torrentio add-on for Torrent sources, and a bit of tinkering so I don’t see the paid options. Works pretty well for single episodes of some shows (for others I download the box set).
Edit: I mean it works for full shows, but when I really like a show enough I’ll have a hard drive copy.
When I was a kid, I didn’t even know what torrents are and ended up suffering with all the noise in the videos. Or find some really shitty quality ftp server download.
Luckily, I’ve since became enlightened and find torrents for everything. I set the first 3 episodes of a series at high priority, it only talkes between 30 minutes to 3 hours (depending on popularity), and then I can start watching, and then set 4, 5, 6 on high priority and once I’m done episode 3, I find that 4 5 6 is already done and the rest are at 90%.
Be a little patient and you get to enjoy higher quality.
And if you have dont much freetime to wait for downloads, you should be pre-choosing a show and have the first few episodes downloaded before your previous one is done watching.
I just use VLC for everything, torrented straight to the device, and video files played locally.
I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.
Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.
The only place I’ll stream from is the archive.
I exclusively stream torrents. It’s almost flawless for me. The trick is you need a paid service like real debrid to get access to the good links. If you are only searching free ones, it’s going to be low quality, and selection sucks. I use RD and Kodi personally, it also allows you to torrent traditionally, too, and without the need of a VPN if your isp is nosey.
fmhy and trying a couple options always worked out for me
Yep, this is my setup. I did the whole *arr apps, Plex and Usenet setup for years, but hated dealing with storing the files. It also didn’t help when my 8TB drive decided to act up and make files inaccessible.
Now I stream everything through Stremio with RD+. Works on every device flawlessly.
Nah, torrenting 8 seasons of a show I want to watch is the way to go.
After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.
Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.
I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.
You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.
The most talked about thing on Usenet? That’s right: Usenet.
is there a good guide you followed?
about what
how to set up *arr stack
I used this guide https://trash-guides.info/
This is the way.
oh you mean how I pirate? download qbittorrent (best torrent client), get yourself some VPN if you are in 1st country (not a problem if you are in 3rd), go 1337x.to or rutracker.org (these are best I mainly use 1337x tho), search something find what you want to pirate, copy magnet link from there and paste to qbittorent add magnet link thing, it will downloaded.
They weren’t asking you. They replied to my comment about a proper setup
A user in this community wrote a guide. If you need any help feel free to ask here or dm me - I set up the full stack on a home server and would love to help share the knowledge.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26287096
Gotchu fam’
I torrent on my media PC and stream from there.
You can download a torrent for a full season or full series, and only download like the first three episodes, or the first season. And then if you like it, download more of the torrent.
Nobody is making you download all 8 seasons.
Or if you want to anyway, but don’t want to wait for the whole thing to finish download, most torrent clients let you set priority for individual files, and you can set the first couple episodes to “maximum” and start watching right away while the rest download.
Streaming sites are great to share the spirit of piracy with your friends that do not want to get into any other piracy option. Literally just sending them a link so they dont buy the movie on amazon is always worth it
This is the best site I’ve come across, but it’s still not perfect.
My advice is to keep spending time getting experience using free streaming services. Since very few are like kissanime/cartoon (been around forever, haven’t changed layout), if you go awhile without using them then it’s like having to relearn what to do.
This is unfortunate, but the more people we have looking at them the better they should be.
Thanks this is perfect
if you use streamio then you can choose whatever quality you want
Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father’s brother (Bob’s your uncle).
Sign up for some debrid service -> profit.
Yeah Debrid + Stremio and you’re set.
This has been working for me for a whilst however if one of the links in the chain goes down at some point then you have nothing to watch. I might even have to talk to my family!
I’m gonna start considering local server. I remember the good old days of getting up in the middle of the night to check limewire.
I used to run a Plex server locally, with content provided by Usenet. It was by far the most stable/robust experience I’ve had, but I like being able to watch whatever I want on a whim.
Probs my next move. Waiting to move house and will likely do this…maybe with jellyfish. I am trying to degoogle and amazon and currently stremio is on firestick. Stremio has been great but as I said it’s not totally immune to outside factors. Thanks for the note. It helps that others have success and share so, it makes the leap seem smaller.
what’s the advantage of debird vs just watching the torrentio links on streamio?
In addition to what @[email protected] said;
You don’t need to worry about a VPN, and I find the connection much more stable and less prone to flakiness due to seeders being on shitty ISPs.
It isn’t as robust as Usenet, or a Plex/Jellyfin server, but it’s a lot more convenient in my experience.
Loads instantly as it’s direct from a server, essentially it’s a cached torrent
