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by h4ch1 704 days ago
Used it for 2 weeks, shows, movies kept buffering even though it's supposed to use BitTorrent. Switched back to popcorn time, no issues since.
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The ideal setup takes advantage of Real-Debrid or other seedbox services.
The ideal setup takes advantage of Usenet.
Usenet is my main source, but I'm not aware of anyone implementing streaming over it? Sounds nightmarish to implement really
"Streaming" from Usenet doesn't sound too bad, really, for many things.

Just automagically download the RARs and PARs for a good release that make sense to get moving, and then: Get moving. (And keep processing as moving forward happens.)

(What makes a "good" release? IDK, but streaming from torrents must be able to be figured out, and outside of torrents nzbget seems to be able to usually figure it pretty quickly from Usenet for me. Neither method is inherently start-to-finish and suitable for "streaming" but that doesn't mean that either of them cannot be made to work.

And one of them apparently does work.)

...which somehow also lags and buffers even on a gigabit network.
You can add the popcorntime plugin to stremio and get the best of both worlds.
is there one?
I thought popcorn time died a while ago? Is it back?
Original project got targeted and shut down. Plethora of sham and community supported forks arose afterward.