Comment by Razengan

Comment by Razengan 2 days ago

8 replies

BitTorrent → Local Media Player App

Still the best way to watch movies and shows.

Even if we pay $100 dollars every month to streaming services they will never not be too dumb to know how to make a convenient player that isn't hostile to its users.

SoKamil 2 days ago

What is your local app of choice? Do you sync between devices?

  • qwerpy a day ago

    I have a server that runs a bunch of containers (bittorrent client on a VPN, Home Assistant, etc.) and hosts SMB shares. I acquire content that goes on the shares which then get consumed by various devices.

    - Kodi on a TV that has been stripped of as much of Google as I could find, streams from the shares

    - VLC on my PC, streams from the shares

    - VLC on my phone which is always VPN'd to my local network and streams from the shares

    - VLC on iPads on which I usually drag and drop some shows/movies ahead of time so I am not wifi-dependent

  • emeril 2 days ago

    omg - just use ultra.cc + kodi with https connection on a fire stick - so simple

  • Razengan 2 days ago

    IINA on Mac, free & open source, has been perfect for everything for years:

    https://github.com/iina/iina

    While traveling I was so pissed with the Apple TV player's performance on less-than-lightspeed internet connections, I ragecancelled my subscription and just yo ho ho'ed the last couple episodes of Severance

NickC25 2 days ago

It's not about paying them $100.

They aren't dumb. They've realized that a large section of people will not bother, and aren't capable of sailing the high seas. Hostile behaviors won't change until it hits their bottom line, and because they are an extremely profitable company, it won't happen for a very long time.

  • Razengan 2 days ago

    Maybe the buccaneers need to up their marketing.

    Whatever happened to the media players that had built-in torrent searching and streaming?

    • throwawaygmbno 2 days ago

      There is nothing at all to be gained by advertising piracy, especially to the streaming companies.

      Let them enshittify their apps and just tell your friends and family offline how to have a sane video viewing experience.

    • sphars 2 days ago

      You mean like PopcornTime? I think it's still around in various capacities and different forks