• y2cwr2005@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Stremio combined with RealDebrid is untouchable. Almost every show and movie you could ever think of, ready to go.

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      1 year ago

      I discovered real-debrid yesterday, thanks to this post.

      I was playing around with it last night using kodi. I’m gonna try out stremio thanks to your suggestion.

      That said - it didn’t seem that reliable with kodi. Like I got through a whole movie but it just died once or twice. I ended up switching to another torrent / link and it played through to the end just fine.

      I imagine this won’t necessarily improve with the switch to stremio. Was I just unlucky? Or is this the usual experience?

      edit: yeah ok you’re right. kodi + real-debrid. great stuff.

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        1 year ago

        I’d strongly advise not using debrid. With debrid you’re leeching off torrents without ever seeding anything back. It’s an abusive system. Not to mention it’s usually not files of any level of quality.

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          1 year ago

          That doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of the debrid service is that it caches the torrent. When my client wants to stream the content, the debrid doesn’t leech it from seeders it just pulls it from the cache.

          The quality seems fine, for everything I’ve looked at thus far there’s all the usual types of releases.

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            1 year ago

            Sure you’re pulling from the debrid service but debrid still hit and runs the torrent. Aside from one or two providers that seed for a day or something.

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        1 year ago

        You can get unlucky on the odd occasion, theirs some torrents out there where the actual video file format isn’t friendly with streaming, but RealDebrid itself has been 100% reliable, for me anyway. If your using stremio their are settings you can change to increase the cache size, or you can play around with using a different video player within stremio, but in general the default settings should do the job.

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      1 year ago

      Stremio is hard to beat for ease of use, but personally I prefer Kodi/Fen for

      1. Kodi’s ability to customize audio - ie turn up center channel so you can actually hear what actors are mumbling without needing to constantly adjust the volume
      2. Fen’s interface and ability for the user to discover new content

      The downsides are Kodi’s (relative) lack of stability compared to alternatives and the fact that you have to manage storage meticulously if you’re using a smart device to run it. Kodi’s thumbnail cache can get out of control rapidly.

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      1 year ago

      You got any good overviews of RealDebrid outside of “google.”

      Not sure where to look for info, but I’ve been doing this for a looooooong time (25+ years?) and always like to learn more. Currently rocking a 125+ TB server hosted in my basement for all my Linux isos and figure there may be another way.

      No worries if not! I’m not expecting a novel or anything from anyone personally - just hoping there’s a decent crash course and some decent suggestions.