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I think it’s also helpful to point out that the pirating interfaces have gotten _really_ good. Using Overseer, Radaar, and Sonaar together with Plex created suc

I think it’s also helpful to point out that the pirating interfaces have gotten _really_ good. Using Overseer, Radaar, and Sonaar together with Plex created such a seamless experience I was blown away the first time I saw it. Any movie or show across any service at the push of a button. It doesn’t even feel like pirating. It feels like any other service.

Arn_Thor 2y ago
The interfaces are great but the setup process is still far beyond “plug and play” so the mainstream pirate probably still do it the cumbersome but simple way
- wasteduniverse 2y ago
  I think the clunkyness of getting into torrenting media is a necessary evil to keep it from getting cracked down on. It's like antibiotics: the more people use them, the less effective they become.
  - thatcat 2y ago
    That's not a great metaphor since they become technically more effective since p2p performance improves as the network grows assuming a minimum seed/leech ratio
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- hanniabu 2y ago
  Syncler is pretty plug and play, just need to enter your subscription code ($2/month) and your torrent streaming service (realdebris/premiumize, $5/month)
- utensil4778 2y ago
  It really isn't that bad either, though. The key part is that after I spent a couple of days getting the servers stood up, my tech illiterate husband can just go to this website, search for a movie, and it pops up in his jellyfin app after an hour or so. I have a fairly complex system. I have a VM that tunnels traffic between my local network and my VPN. A second VM hosts all my radarr and torrent servers, which only has network access through the router VM. Files get stored on a shared zvol and jellyfin just automatically detects the new files. The hardest part was the VPN routing. Setting up all the servarrs is basically plug and play. You run the installer script and then copy a key into all the instances you want talking to each other. It really couldn't get much simpler.
m101 2y ago
Could you please high-level describe how you use all these together? What hardware are you using for this? Would a raspberry pi connected to the TV work?
- mattacular 2y ago
  Plex is the core component. It allows you to turn a personal collection of digital media into a Netflix-style streaming service available on any of your devices. The UI is very polished and many of the more modern features you'd expect are there as well (such as automatically queueing the next episode of a show). You can also invite friends and family to access your library. Plex provides all of the metadata about the media such as artwork and even subtitles so you don't have to manage that yourself. The rest of the things mentioned in that post are for discovery/finding and downloading media automatically. Overseerr is for recommendations (? never used it), Radarr and Sonarr automatically get new movies and shows from public trackers and add them to your Plex server. You can run Plex server on a variety of hardware depending on how many streams you need to support simultaneously.
  - xattt 2y ago
    Subtitles downloaded by Plex are vulnerable to “poisoning”. One set I downloaded was parroting conspiracy theories at the intro and when the credits rolled.
    - exe34 2y ago
      So it's like the FBI warning not to copy DVDs?
    - Cyph0n 2y ago
      In general, it’s better to run Bazarr for subtitles.
  - Cyph0n 2y ago
    Just a small note: any media server is the core component. Plex is one popular option, but Emby and Jellyfin (open source) are viable options too. Overseerr/Jellyseerr is for automatically handling requests. This is only useful if you share access to your server with family or friends.
tomr75 2y ago
there is also real debrid -> don't even have to store any content locally just stream

Arn_Thor 2y ago

The interfaces are great but the setup process is still far beyond “plug and play” so the mainstream pirate probably still do it the cumbersome but simple way

wasteduniverse 2y ago
I think the clunkyness of getting into torrenting media is a necessary evil to keep it from getting cracked down on. It's like antibiotics: the more people use them, the less effective they become.
- thatcat 2y ago
  That's not a great metaphor since they become technically more effective since p2p performance improves as the network grows assuming a minimum seed/leech ratio
- deleted 2y ago
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hanniabu 2y ago
Syncler is pretty plug and play, just need to enter your subscription code ($2/month) and your torrent streaming service (realdebris/premiumize, $5/month)
utensil4778 2y ago
It really isn't that bad either, though. The key part is that after I spent a couple of days getting the servers stood up, my tech illiterate husband can just go to this website, search for a movie, and it pops up in his jellyfin app after an hour or so. I have a fairly complex system. I have a VM that tunnels traffic between my local network and my VPN. A second VM hosts all my radarr and torrent servers, which only has network access through the router VM. Files get stored on a shared zvol and jellyfin just automatically detects the new files. The hardest part was the VPN routing. Setting up all the servarrs is basically plug and play. You run the installer script and then copy a key into all the instances you want talking to each other. It really couldn't get much simpler.

m101 2y ago

Could you please high-level describe how you use all these together? What hardware are you using for this? Would a raspberry pi connected to the TV work?

mattacular 2y ago
Plex is the core component. It allows you to turn a personal collection of digital media into a Netflix-style streaming service available on any of your devices. The UI is very polished and many of the more modern features you'd expect are there as well (such as automatically queueing the next episode of a show). You can also invite friends and family to access your library. Plex provides all of the metadata about the media such as artwork and even subtitles so you don't have to manage that yourself. The rest of the things mentioned in that post are for discovery/finding and downloading media automatically. Overseerr is for recommendations (? never used it), Radarr and Sonarr automatically get new movies and shows from public trackers and add them to your Plex server. You can run Plex server on a variety of hardware depending on how many streams you need to support simultaneously.
- xattt 2y ago
  Subtitles downloaded by Plex are vulnerable to “poisoning”. One set I downloaded was parroting conspiracy theories at the intro and when the credits rolled.
  - exe34 2y ago
    So it's like the FBI warning not to copy DVDs?
  - Cyph0n 2y ago
    In general, it’s better to run Bazarr for subtitles.
- Cyph0n 2y ago
  Just a small note: any media server is the core component. Plex is one popular option, but Emby and Jellyfin (open source) are viable options too. Overseerr/Jellyseerr is for automatically handling requests. This is only useful if you share access to your server with family or friends.

tomr75 2y ago

there is also real debrid -> don't even have to store any content locally just stream