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Both it and another torrent of the same film with considerably more seeders are sitting at "downloading metadata" after 7 minutes. Little globe icon in qBittorrent is green. Half a dozen other torrents downloaded and seeding just fine. I am frustration.
If there's a 'Last Checked' stat on the same page you may find it's a very stale count. I've seen some on 1337x that had great numbers but 'last checked 2 years ago' and the torrent's long dead.
If there's a 'Last Checked' stat on the same page you may find it's a very stale count. I've seen some on 1337x that had great numbers but 'last checked 2 years ago' and the torrent's long dead.
RARBG was a huge loss. They had the perfect size/quality blend (1.5-2Gb for a 1080 x265 movie). YIFY's a little lower than I would like, but they're the most consistent nowadays.
Unironically, get an Onn 4K Plus ($30-$50). I know you said you don't need 4K, but it's a lot of horsepower for the price. If you really don't care about 4K and "cheap" is the order of the day, the Onn "Full HD Streaming Device" (aka their 1080p stick) is $15-$30, often going on sale for $14.88 on sale or when logged in to Walmart.com (Onn is a Walmart brand).
God no, don't use Raspberry Pis for media playback. They're fucking dogshit. The chipset lacks hardware decoding for most (if not all) common codecs. Even the 5 is hot garbage for most media purposes. They're fine for the things they're well-suited at (though there are still cheaper options given their weaknesses), but media is not one of them.
Unironically, get an Onn 4K Plus ($30-$50). I know you said you don't need 4K, but it's a lot of horsepower for the price. If you really don't care about 4K and "cheap" is the order of the day, the Onn "Full HD Streaming Device" (aka their 1080p stick) is $15-$30, often going on sale for $14.88 on sale or when logged in to Walmart.com (Onn is a Walmart brand).
They're running plain Android, are Play Store "certified", support sideloading natively, can run Kodi/Jellyfin, and even the shittiest model (the 1080p stick) can reliably play 1080p 60FPS video via Wifi. They're well supported with updates, support the usual streaming apps, but also run the "home media" sidecar stack just fine too. You don't even have to root them to replace the default launcher (which gets rid of the only ads the devices display). Projectivy is the current darling of the custom launcher world.
Avoid Amazon Fire TV like the fucking plague. They aren't even Android anymore; they've baked up their own shitty clone that can't run Android apps and won't allow sideloading. And they've been slowly clamping down on the older models' willingness to run sideloaded apps with functionality disappearing after updates. I used to swear by the Fire TV Sticks ... but Amazon can't abide even a moment going by without a storefront or sales opportunity being shoved in the user's face, so they're clamping down and ruining a good thing. Dumb fucks.
Thanks for the heads up on the Onn device. Iv'e been using rpi 4's with Kodi for years but the half baked way to use Jellyfin on it is kind of janky but always works.
Is there any way to have the device boot right into Jellyfin?
God no, don't use Raspberry Pis for media playback. They're fucking dogshit. The chipset lacks hardware decoding for most (if not all) common codecs. Even the 5 is hot garbage for most media purposes. They're fine for the things they're well-suited at (though there are still cheaper options given their weaknesses), but media is not one of them.
Zero problems using the Pi for media here since the first Pi released, though you must know the correct invocation of the hardware accelerated decode. Used to be omxplayer, now they seem to be using VLC. Set it up as a UPNP renderer and forget about it. Get this locked in and it's even cleaner than trying to use Android with a remote control.
God no, don't use Raspberry Pis for media playback. They're fucking dogshit. The chipset lacks hardware decoding for most (if not all) common codecs. Even the 5 is hot garbage for most media purposes. They're fine for the things they're well-suited at (though there are still cheaper options given their weaknesses), but media is not one of them.
Unironically, get an Onn 4K Plus ($30-$50). I know you said you don't need 4K, but it's a lot of horsepower for the price. If you really don't care about 4K and "cheap" is the order of the day, the Onn "Full HD Streaming Device" (aka their 1080p stick) is $15-$30, often going on sale for $14.88 on sale or when logged in to Walmart.com (Onn is a Walmart brand).
They're running plain Android, are Play Store "certified", support sideloading natively, can run Kodi/Jellyfin, and even the shittiest model (the 1080p stick) can reliably play 1080p 60FPS video via Wifi. They're well supported with updates, support the usual streaming apps, but also run the "home media" sidecar stack just fine too. You don't even have to root them to replace the default launcher (which gets rid of the only ads the devices display). Projectivy is the current darling of the custom launcher world.
Avoid Amazon Fire TV like the fucking plague. They aren't even Android anymore; they've baked up their own shitty clone that can't run Android apps and won't allow sideloading. And they've been slowly clamping down on the older models' willingness to run sideloaded apps with functionality disappearing after updates. I used to swear by the Fire TV Sticks ... but Amazon can't abide even a moment going by without a storefront or sales opportunity being shoved in the user's face, so they're clamping down and ruining a good thing. Dumb fucks.
Fully endorsed. I've been using the Onn devices for a year now and they work very well with Projectivity and Jellyfin. SmartTube is also easy to install so I can get my ad free Youtube as well.
Zero problems using the Pi for media here since the first Pi released, though you must know the correct invocation of the hardware accelerated decode. Used to be omxplayer, now they seem to be using VLC. Set it up as a UPNP renderer and forget about it. Get this locked in and it's even cleaner than trying to use Android with a remote control.
The Raspberry Pi 5 (BCM2712) in particular bit me when I tried to set one up for media playback last year. It has a custom designed dedicated video decode block that handles exactly one codec: H.265, rated at 4K at 60 FPS. It lacks decoding hardware support for literally everything else, even H.264, and certainly also no AV1 support. 1080p 60FPS playback of H.264 chews up about 50-60% of the CPU's horsepower. AV1 was unplayable beyond about 720p unless something significant has changed on the software stack side.
Jesus! I'd say it's worth a drive into the US for a stop at a brick-and-mortar Walmart for the lower price before I'd pay that markup on anything. But no, it's not worth $70. In the US the Hyper-Mega-Ultra-Turbo-Death Onn Pro model with a wired ethernet port, lots of RAM and storage, beefy CPU and hardware, happily slinging 4K video like it's nothing, is about $70.
Just out of mere curiosity, is there a little box or HDMI-stick that makes FTP-media viewing extremely easy? Or would I have to make some shit on my own? I'd want it to be 4K HDR ready, at the minimum.
I'd imagine something I'd be able to plug into a monitor/TV, automatically connect to an FTP instance and then use a remote to browse through the FTP instance.
Ah, yikes. I never bought a Pi 5 because there was no value proposition at its price point. That checks out. Apparently they figured CPU decode was adequate? Yeah, the current price apocalypse has really made them a bad choice, especially if that's the reality today.
In the US the Hyper-Mega-Ultra-Turbo-Death Onn Pro model with a wired ethernet port, lots of RAM and storage, beefy CPU and hardware, happily slinging 4K video like it's nothing, is about $70.
Ah, yikes. I never bought a Pi 5 because there was no value proposition at its price point. That checks out. Apparently they figured CPU decode was adequate? Yeah, the current price apocalypse has really made them a bad choice, especially if that's the reality today.
This model is just shy of $120CAD before tax at my nearest Walmart, but that's not out of line with exchange rate considerations.
No one does FTP any more. The bog-standard version that works is UPNP/DLNA which runs HTTP. I run minidlna and a lot of software (eg. VLC) handles it by default.
Ah man that's a fucking ripoff. They're raping you hard up there. Even at full-price, not on sale, no discounts, it's only $29.98 on Walmart.com. And this model goes on sale regularly (at least in the US). God damn ridiculous they have the nerve to apply that much markup. These things are absurdly cheap to manufacture.
JFC I could literally go buy one in person at my local WM and ship it to you personally, even accounting for currency exchange and fee shenanigans if you paid me with canadollars instead of Freedom Bucks and it'd still probably cost less than half what they're asking. Globohomo can eat a fucking dick.
When I traveled I carried a Pi 5 as a file server and media player so I didn't have to hook my laptop to the hotel TV. That was the theory. In practice it sucked. I've moved to a LattePanda Iota. Doesn't seem to like 4k unless everything is perfect, might just need some driver tweaks since Intel is usually pretty good at media, but all the 1080p stuff I usually bring with me works perfectly.
At home I just use my gaming PC, it doesn't have any problems.
Just out of mere curiosity, is there a little box or HDMI-stick that makes FTP-media viewing extremely easy? Or would I have to make some shit on my own? I'd want it to be 4K HDR ready, at the minimum.
I'd imagine something I'd be able to plug into a monitor/TV, automatically connect to an FTP instance and then use a remote to browse through the FTP instance.
When I traveled I carried a Pi 5 as a file server and media player so I didn't have to hook my laptop to the hotel TV. That was the theory. In practice it sucked. I've moved to a LattePanda Iota. Doesn't seem to like 4k unless everything is perfect, might just need some driver tweaks since Intel is usually pretty good at media, but all the 1080p stuff I usually bring with me works perfectly.
At home I just use my gaming PC, it doesn't have any problems.
if it's 4k it might be the hdr and right now hdr tonemapping on Intel is iffy because the OpenCL driver is so old that it was removed from Ubuntu and Debian. Intel allegedly updated the driver but it'll take a while to make it back into stable distros
When I traveled I carried a Pi 5 as a file server and media player so I didn't have to hook my laptop to the hotel TV. That was the theory. In practice it sucked. I've moved to a LattePanda Iota. Doesn't seem to like 4k unless everything is perfect, might just need some driver tweaks since Intel is usually pretty good at media, but all the 1080p stuff I usually bring with me works perfectly.
At home I just use my gaming PC, it doesn't have any problems.
For travel purposes I prefer CoreELEC-compatible SBCs. CoreELEC is "just enough OS to run Kodi," Linux-based under the hood.
Hardkernel (goofy name but they make fucking great SBCs) recently released their ODROID-C5 for $69 (giggity). HDMI 4K (AV1 / HEVC / VP9 hardware decode), 4GB of RAM, Amlogic S905X5M quad-core Cortex-A55 (2.5GHz), micro SD slot, emmc module connector if you want to spring for some faster flash storage (pricey though, $33 for 16GB and it just skyrockets from there), wired gigabit ethernet, street price reported around $40. The only pisser is all the USB ports top out at 2.0, not 3, but the damned thing doesn't even hit 3 watts of power consumption under stress testing so for that kind of low power there's always a trade-off. On the plus side, it doesn't even need a heat sink. The little case they sell for it for $5 doesn't even get hot to the touch when the unit's under load.
You don't have to run CoreELEC on those either; it just happens to be one of their best-supported models with dedicated images straight from the developers (they use these for development and testing). They run regular ol' Linux just fine too. I've got a handful of their older models and they're all rock-solid for a media player suitable for travel. They're great little tinkering machines too. You can squeeze a surprising amount of useful performance and work out of a pile of these things on a network running a k8s cluster. Stupid as it sounds, they have just enough horsepower to run containerized workloads without choking, assuming you're not trying to serve a production database to a thousand users with them.
I'd say it's worth a drive into the US for a stop at a brick-and-mortar Walmart for the lower price before I'd pay that markup on anything. But no, it's not worth $70. In the US the Hyper-Mega-Ultra-Turbo-Death Onn Pro model with a wired ethernet port, lots of RAM and storage, beefy CPU and hardware, happily slinging 4K video like it's nothing, is about $70.
