With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for.
So I am wondering if it’s possible to have a Netflix like GUI but powered by piracy? And as this is the pirate world, it shows shows and movies not just from Netflix but also from the other streaming services? And finally it is available on TVs ( Samsung tizen in my case). Something like this would be the best case scenario. Wondering if someone has a similar setup?
- emeralddawn45 ( @emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ) English28•1 year ago
Everyone always recommends the torrent solutions, plex and the arrs, but unless it’s something I’m really excited about or want in extra high quality, I find it’s easier to just use the browser streaming sites. In Firefox with ublock there’s no ads, it has subtitles for multiple languages loaded automatically usually, and a nice ui that shows most popular show/movies, and has a good catalogue. There’s lots to choose from, I think the guide has a list, but the ones I use are:
Bflix.gg Hdtoday.cc Fmovies.to
Quick, simple and painless.
- Ilandar ( @Ilandar@aussie.zone ) English6•1 year ago
The files these sites rely on are generally the lowest available quality in their resolution, that’s why they aren’t recommended often. Fair play if you don’t care about visual and audio quality, but I find them unwatchable most of the time. The artifacts and distortion detract from the experience significantly.
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) English1•1 year ago
I second the first, haven’t used the others.
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English22•1 year ago
https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/
It’s a torrent client with a Netflix-like interface. It hides all the torrent stuff from you and just shows movies and shows in a nice format. It downloads and plays on the fly, it also grabs subtitles as needed, you can pick 720 or 1080, and you can choose to keep or delete the stuff you watched after you’re done.
Keep in mind that under the hood it’s still a torrent client, so if you have trouble with that kind of thing in your country you may want to use a VPN and all that jazz.
- MaggiWuerze ( @MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ) English2•1 year ago
As far as I know it has no vpn option build in right? And getting a VPN on regular smart TVs is not really easy
- RandomLegend [He/Him] ( @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English21•1 year ago
You could install Overseerr which also integrates nicely into sonarr & radar
It doesn’t have a TV app though.
- laenurd ( @laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de ) English2•1 year ago
For the tv app part:
You can use jellyfin to host your media, it has apps for many types of television. The jellyfin-specific fork of overseer is called jellyseer.
- RandomLegend [He/Him] ( @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 year ago
Yeah but you have to delve into developer tools and build the app from source for TizenTV
That was the reason I went with Plex instead of jellyfin for me
- nixfreak ( @nixfreak@sopuli.xyz ) English1•1 year ago
It’s pretty easy to build the tizen app , only sucks you have rebuild to add updates. Works great though.
- laenurd ( @laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de ) English1•1 year ago
I have no experience with Samsung TVs, did not know it was more involved. At least for Android TV and Amazon fire TV it’s basically one click.
- RedCypher ( @RedCypher@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
That can be solved by connecting a computer to the tv via hdmi. My main tv has a computer that connects is jellyfin to my home server than runs radarr, sonarr and lidarr. I have not seen a commercial in years!
- kostel_thecreed ( @kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca ) English21•1 year ago
Kodi is what your looking for. A debrid + kodi is basically netflix with shows from around the world, in high quality, on demand.
But, it is not available on TVs as a seperate app. Companies do not like piracy, so many applications that are related to it do not make the appstores. A cheap and easy way to get Kodi would be to simply buy a Intel NUC, or a similar mini-pc.
- XpeeN ( @XpeeN@sopuli.xyz ) English9•1 year ago
Any android TV compatible streamer can get Kodi from the play store.
- cnnrduncan ( @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
It’s also on F-Droid if your TV doesn’t have the Google Play Services - I run LineageOS on my TV box!
- kostel_thecreed ( @kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
Or this. Forgot about android TVs. Used to have an nVidia shield, are those still around?
- XpeeN ( @XpeeN@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 year ago
Idk but I remember they were overkill for just kodi. A xiaomi 4k streamer should be enough, or Respberry pi
- Matt_ ( @Matt_@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
They are, but they’re high. Better off getting a Amazon fire stick
- Papercrane ( @Papercrane@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
And with this setup you don’t need a VPN? I just checked what debrid is and it still downloads illegal files but it isn’t a torrent or something similar, right?
- Mefek ( @Mefek@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
While a vpn is never a bad thing, no you don’t need a vpn if you are watching debrid sources. Your ISP will see you connect to your debrid but it won’t see the vídeos you’re watching or anything like that. All Debrid (At least Real Debrid, the service many use) sources are encrypted and wont be picked up.
- kostel_thecreed ( @kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
No. Since you aren’t seeding the files, or are in the swarm, you are fine without a VPN. This is especially popular in Germany where you get fines of upwards of 500€
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) English20•1 year ago
I use jellyfin and it has a really nice ui
- onescomplement ( @onescomplement@lemm.ee ) English11•1 year ago
Amassing a media library is simple enough, and software like jellyfin can pull in media info and make your media streamable on various devices with a polished UI.
However, finding good quality (in terms of merit) movies and shows is difficult.
Maybe start with movies critics or a movie discussion platform like letterboxd to see what others are watching/rating movies.
- JVT038 ( @JVT038@feddit.nl ) English11•1 year ago
My setup:
Jellyfin for the frontend. Has apps for android, iOS, windows, android TV, bunch of other platforms as well…
Deluge as torrent downloader. It’s old, but it just works without the (in my opinion) complicated configurations of qbittorrent.
Prowlarr to search a bunch of sites simultaneously for torrents.
Radarr to add movies, search them with Prowlarr and add the best torrent to deluge, eventually moving the downloaded content to Jellyfin to view.
Sonarr to do the same as Radarr but for TV shows instead.
- piratetarip ( @piratetarip@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
I would add jellyseer as a nice option to request movies rather then doing it directly through so are/radarr
- Diffuser5593 ( @Diffuser5593@aussie.zone ) English2•1 year ago
Nice list but sub out torrenting for usenet. There’s a fee associated with usenet but worth it imo as you get higher quality releases, more likely to find niche stuff and don’t have the issue of no seeders.
- MeatsOfRage ( @MeatsOfRage@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 year ago
If you have all these setup I’d recommend getting NZB360 on Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360
- jpants ( @jpants@lemm.ee ) English11•1 year ago
Stremio with an addon like Google Drive or Real Debrid (torrentio).
You can set up Couchmoney through trakt to get similar recommendations algorithms.
Stremio has a UI which works amazingly on TV, and should be familiar to Netflix.
- janguv ( @janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
This is the right answer.
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•1 year ago
What you need is Jellyfin, around 2-5TB (depending on your quality) and access to a private torrent tracker, usenet or DDL site.
Then you can stuff like this:
- pdqcp ( @pdqcp@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Are you able to filter it by language? My parents are old, and they did not have a chance to learn any other language like English
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 year ago
You could create different libraries for different languages.
Also helps with auto metadata fetching.
This is a cool setup. But torrents in Europe? Too many horror stories.
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
seedboxes are my way. Download through a provider that doesnt care.
Am downloading from public and private repos. - piratetarip ( @piratetarip@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
Usenet is a good option then, although not completely free
- flynnguy ( @flynnguy@programming.dev ) English10•1 year ago
I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.
Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission… it’s a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.
- inflatablerobot ( @inflatablerobot@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
I set up plex, overseer, sonaar and radaar to let my family request videos and stream from me when Netflix kicked them off my account. My boomer dad hasn’t had any issue using overseer to request stuff to watch. I even overheard him kinda bragging to a friend of his about the setup.
Overseerr pings me on discord when someone makes a request. I auto-approve movies but require approval for series to keep from them from downloading every episode of Grey’s anatomy all at once.
- Phantom52347 ( @Phantom52347@lemmy.one ) English10•1 year ago
You could try Stremio with the Torrentio add-on, it works really well and it’s simple to set up
- JiminyCricketz ( @JiminyCricketz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
I second this
- 🅵🅴🅳🅴🆁🅰🅻🅰🅻🅸🅴🅽🆂🅼🆄🅶🅶🅻🅴🆁 ( @FederalAlienSmuggler@feddit.de ) English7•1 year ago
Overseerr is good. nzb360 (android app) is also good in browsing upcoming or popular movies/shows.
- AngryDemonoid ( @AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com ) English6•1 year ago
It’s written specifically for unraid, but given they are mainly python scripts, it may work on other systems.
Requires plex and the *arr stack.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/14f2bzb/movie_churn_solution_on_plex_autogetautodelete/
- guts ( @guts@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
Stremio with Real Debrid is enough for me.
- powers ( @powers@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
This is the correct answer. Kodi+fen+RD is my choice but it requires a bit more maintenance.
- ludik0 ( @ludik0@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
I would suggest Stremio, it needs the torrentio plugin and it streams from the torrent itself. It also has playlist plugins from most commercial steaming services (netflix included) . You wont find it for Samsung tvs natively, but it works with casting.