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What the hell is going on with Stremio man? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Any time you pause it or rewind it or sneeze it throws the "EXO failed to play this video" error.

That's WHEN it decides to play sound.

I noticed they said they aren't worried about fixing it on github??

What is going on here?

I'm using a shield tv pro and it acts like this on my gaming PC too always freezing and making me force shut it down.

Did something happen with stremio lately?

Edit: anyone know of any viable alternatives that don't require learning hours of self hosting stuff like Jellyfin?

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Okay self hosting means you use an old laptop or raspberry Pi to run a server with all the movies and TV series and stuff right?

My question is, how do you get these movies and TV series and stuff if you self host?

Or am I wrong entirely?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's pretty much what self hosting is. You can get more complex if you really want to, but it's traditionally where old household computers go to live out their autumn years.

    As far as getting the content? I have a feeling the wiki in the sidebar could give you a torrent of answers

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There's a way to get all the movies and series and stuff with automated tools? Won't that take weeks or months to download and wouldn't they need soo much hard-disks?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It depends on your needs, but sure, there's tools out there. I think that's what the *arr stack is all about but people have been doing it manually for as long as the internet's been around.

    Whatever media you're downloading, you only have to hold onto what you want though. So like, yeah, video eats up storage space. When you're curating a collection you have to decide what's worth keeping, what might be worth backing up to physical media, and when it's worth expanding your storage.

    A torrent uses Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. The way it works is that each client downloading a file is potentially also uploading a file. If you have a lot of peers, it typically moves faster. A popular torrent could let you download media far quicker than you could you consume it.

    This also means it can run afoul copyright law depending on your jurisdiction. Example: in Canada it's only a violation to upload copyrighted content, but downloading isn't actually a crime. That said, not all torrented files are protected by copyright, it's a technology that can be used for any file.

    If you don't want people to see what you're downloading or are wondering if you might receive a copyright strike, I strongly encourage you to read the FAQ and ISP Complaints sections, and pay particular attention to what they have to say about VPNs.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    You are not wrong, but my understanding (and how i use mine) could also be wrong

    Stremio is for streaming

    Jellyfin is a self hosted media manager and relies on you having the files...if you dont have the files downloaded/stored its gonna give you nothing to display.

    I set aside a day last year and set up a self host, once up and running its actually quite low maintenance. I use it for stuff i watch regular or that I want to keep (viewed and managed by JF). Also my shows because it just picks up new episodes in the background. Convenient.

    For casual streaming when i dont know what i want to watch/check out a new show...its stremio.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Isn't streamio just paying somone else to leech torrents for you and stream you the results? Just grab the show using sonarr or something and delete it if it's not to your liking.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The official way to get movies and TV series for self hosting is to purchase them on physical disc, then rip that media to your computer so you don't need to swap out discs anymore.

    There are also tools to rip the movies from streaming sites. Depending on how you want to do it, there's various tools to download the content, but it's a bit of a war between the streamers and the end users.

    There's also ways to download that content from people who share it online. Depending on where you live, this might be completely legal, it might get you fined, it might get your internet shut off, or it might get you put in jail. The worst most people get is a letter telling them to knock it off, but you should look into the laws where you live to find out for sure.

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy has some guides on it.

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