Stremio and Cloudstream offer cord-cutters a way to stream movies, TV shows, and web series for free, they do so by aggregating pirated content, making them alternatives to mainstream paid streaming services.

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do I need to pay for real debrid? I’m using torrentio and it’s sufficient. How’s realdebrid different?

[–] portly053@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yes it costs money but not much. You get better speeds and don't need a vpn for debrid serivces

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it is paid. I recently signed up for the 30 day play as a test drive and see if it made sense to me... And it really is game changing.

Torrent may be enough most of the time, but Stremio has a serious problem about speed, I don't know why. I enabled the "ultra fast" settings in the menu, but I can't get the same speed I'd get downloading the same torrent through any torrent client.

It made it impossible to watch 4gb movies, for example, I was basically stuck with lower quality 1-2gb ones.

Real debrid changed that. I watched a 17gb one the other day just fine.

If some movie isn't available through RD, you can signal RD to download it and it will be available to you (and others) a bit later as well, but I haven't really needed it so far.

[–] Yaks@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do pay for it but at €13 for 6 months it is totally worth it. Good and reliable solid streams to give you the most applike experience.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds reasonable. How does it compare to having your own homeserver? I already have a small home server. Does it allow you to download movies to add to your own collection?

[–] FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to it from hosting my own server. In my experience, Stream quality/lag is way better with Debrid services.

It's also much faster to go from "I want to watch this show" to actually watching the show with Debrid than it was with my Plex/Jellyfin server, even with all the *rrs setup.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. What’s rrs setup?

[–] ehyuman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sonarr prowlarr etc. those softwares

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Ah got it, thanks!