Currently subscribe to a couple of Plex shares after getting tired of running my own server. This works well for the most part but I’m at the mercy of their infrastructure if anything stops working.

I subscribe to 2 providers for redundancy purposes as they have downtime a lot so it’s more costly than I’d like but still cheaper than running my own and way less time consuming. Not convinced it’s the best or most modern way to pirate / stream.

I’ve read about real-debrid and stremio or other apps. Sounds like torrents and having to wade through low quality releases?

What do you seasoned scurvy dogs use?

  • Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To sum up for anyone finding this later:

    Running your own jellyfin server is best and free. Check out the servarr community to get started. Will take a bit of setting up but if you can figure out Lemmy, you can figure this out. I’d personally recommend some kind of Usenet subscription with this but some might prefer to use torrents.

    You can do what I do and get an app share where someone else runs the server, downloads everything for you etc and you pay to use their service.

    Stremio / Syncler paired with a paid real-debrid account seems like a good solution but you can use torrents if you don’t want to pay anything. This is seriously good and cheaper than an app share. I’m getting rid of my backup app share and using this in its place.

    Thanks all!

  • Parsnip8904@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Real debrid with streamIO is the most painless option I have setup. My parents love using it and have stopped using everything else. You just need to remember to renew your subscription once you have set it up :) I get 4K releases for most of the things I watch, with no searching needed.

    • Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nice, I had a play with this earlier and it seems to work well if you know what you want to watch. Did see a few ‘no results found’ for some obscure shows

      • TotallyTerry@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately that does happen. Real Debrid only keeps torrents cached for a period of time. If the files aren’t being accessed regularly, than they will dump the files. If you find an active torrent than you can usually pop it into real debrid, let it download, and access it through stremio. It’s definitely not ideal for a lot of people but it’s still a great service for popular titles.

        • Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          Ah that makes sense, shouldn’t be too much hassle to get them in there then if I can find a good source of torrents. What’s the go to place for those?

          • TotallyTerry@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            1337x, torrentgalaxy, torrent leech (if you don’t care about hit and runs since RD does not seed files enough for private trackers). If it’s really obscure, than I gotta do some deep diving to find available files.