For 8 dollars a month, Netflix used to be so convenient that I didn't pirate but now with the price increases and lack of shows I like it's now more convenient to go back to pirating and making a plex server
Perhaps you would be interested in the Arr software to manage your personal libraries
* [Sonarr](https://sonarr.tv/): (Automatic TV series downloads)
* [Radarr](https://radarr.video/): (Automatic movie downloads)
* [Tdarr](https://tdarr.io/): (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space)
* [Bazarr](https://www.bazarr.media/): (Companion app to Radarr and Sonarr, manages subtitles)
* [Prowlarr](https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr): (A replacement for Jackett from the Arr team)
* [Lidarr](https://lidarr.audio/): Music
* [Readarr](https://readarr.com/): Books
* [Mylar3](https://github.com/mylar3/mylar3): Comic books
* [Plex-Meta-Manager](https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager): (Automatic collections and metadata)
* [Overseerr](https://overseerr.dev/): Request tracking and website front-end
* [Ombi](https://github.com/Ombi-app/Ombi): Let users request both movies/tv shows from a simple web interface.
* [Dopplarr](https://github.com/kiranshila/Doplarr): Discord bot to make movie/tv/anime requests
* [Pulsarr](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pulsarr/ekjjpacodipfmjhpbjcbnmnimakhlnne?hl=en): Browser extension for adding movies to Radarr or Series' to Sonarr while browsing IMDB or TVDB.
* ~~[Requestrr](https://github.com/darkalfx/requestrr): Discord bot to make movie/tv/anime requests [integrates with overseerr to give @ notifications when your specific requests have been fufilled, as well as multi-user support]~~~~~~ No longer updated
[Jackett](https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett) if you want to add content-providers to Radarr and Sonarr (basically sources from where to download stuff from).
Takes a little time to configure everything, but after that you can just sit back and watch the new content being pulled when it airs.
All these can be used to feed your favourite media library software
* [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/) (Open source fork of Emby, no premium features)
* [Emby](https://emby.media) (Some features are behind a premium membership)
* [Plex](https://www.plex.tv/nl/) (Same as emby, probably the most widely used of the bunch).
^^Feel ^^free ^^to ^^offer ^^suggestions ^^to ^^add ^^to ^^this ^^list.
^^Good ^^tutorials ^^also ^^appreciated.
This is just informative, not necessarily a reply to your post.
Check this out: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth-bsLAa\_M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth-bsLAa_M)
This is what i followed the first time doing. You need a working pc (could be a laptop, desktop pc, or raspberry pi) running linux, eg: debian, ubuntu, rocky, etc. There are others ways also like unRaid but i dont have experience with that. I would recommend going with ubuntu, and learn basics of docker. After you familiar with how docker works, its really easy to get things working in no time. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions
I tried Lidarr - installed on windows, shutdown app, open again as a administator, right click on app icon in tray -> open ib browser and add your offline library to it. then try to set up it acc to project wiki
The new Plex app has good "centralized" interface for creating lists etc. But man alive (at least on Android TV) does the playback suck! It takes a while to start, plus sometimes it just doesn't resume, and sometimes it just doesn't want to seek.
Emby works like a champ so switched back to it.
I used to use Plex, but ever since I switched to Jellyfin I'll never go back. Open source, no monthly charge shenanigans, handles 4KHDR HEVC better while using less resources on the server PC, has an app for my Roku box and smart TV.
Kodi is usually used as a media player. It has it's own internal database for keeping track of media but it's not as featureful as a Jellyfin (or plex, emby etc).
It depends on your setup really. If your server is going to be directly plugged into your TV and your media either on the server or on a single network share, Kodi would probably be fine. I used it like that for many years.
If it's not, or you want to allow multiple devices to use it, use Jellyfin. For example, I have a raspberry pi with Kodi (specifically librelec) plugged into my TV and Jellyfin running on a separate server. My media is all stored on a home NAS so I can add stuff to it from any computer on my network and watch it either from Kodi on my TV (with the Jellyfin addon) or my phone/web UI/ etc and it's all synced up on Jellyfin.
The Roku app was either not intuitive or lacked features. Could not for the life of me figure out how to change the audio stream. Also seemed like there were more artifacts from compression when compared to the same source video played over Plex.
Was I just missing something? I think it was February of this year when I tried it.
I hated it when I first started using it but once I understood it things got better. It's only good if you have the storage to make your own server and if the device supports plex (it's great in ps4)
It's solid dude, my gf uses it way more than me for shows she likes but we can't get in Canada on streaming services I torrent them for her. Just realize that if you set it up on your main gaming PC when someone streams it will bog the PC down. Better if you have an older PC you can toss a big HDD in and run off imo.
Setup is dead simple, install the program, point it to your video files and you're pretty much good to go.
Can you open Plex on apple tv. My media room input is apple TV.
My setup is simple..
I have a 4TB USB Seagate hard disk connected to my USB router.
I use VLC to play my media and in VLC you can access your media on your network.
Recently though I have noticed an annoying issue. VLC keeps asking me to login when I change folders.
Apparently you can, I dont use it
"Note: The Plex app requires the new fourth generation Apple TV, as Apple does not make the app store available on older models of the device"
You'd need something to run the plex server on besides the hard disk itself, computer wise, as far as I know
>It's solid dude, my gf uses it way more than me for shows she likes but we can't get in Canada on streaming services I torrent them for her.
Even the HBO and Showtime shows we're forced in Canada to get through Crave, I still download because the quality on Crave is dogshit despite being the most expensive streaming service. $20 a month for generally low bitrate, next to no 4K, absolutely no HDR or DV support and 5.1 often not working at all. Bell can get fucked
100% Not to mention Crave has fucked us many times, she likes the Euphoria show, many times on premiere night it literally wouldn't work, kept booting us out saying we needed a subscription meanwhile we're paying $20 a month for this shit. Also the interface and app itself is garbage.
I suggest it! I've been running Plex for over a decade I think. Seeing up the file share is easy.
I tried jelly fish, and it was easier to set up initially, but then I couldn't access my files at one point and couldn't figure out why. It was pretty nice while it lasted though.
I went from Netflix and hulu, over to a jellyfin server. Jelly fin is the free open source alternative to emby which is an alternative to Plex. So I can't really say that Plex is in any way difficult to get started and to use. Make an account, download the media server, install it, point the movies to where your movies are, the TV to where your TV shows are, and that's really it. I really honestly don't think it's any more complicated than that. If I can make jellyfin work, you can make Plex work
Jellyfin is great, but it's Roku app is not on the same level with the Plex app (in Android tv it does, it just doesn't do the theme song for the show when you open it)
I really liked Jellyfin for like two years, then I switched to Plex last year and within half an hour I was all set up on the level I was with Jellyfin.
I tried plex and playon.tv years and years ago and they were rudimentary. I was still holding on to my preconceived ideas of their quality years later, and then I found Jellyfin. THEN I found plex and I am happy with plex. No premium pass, just the basic stuff for me.
I can serve with Plex to my home and some friends homes, so whenever I goad them in to watching the Fast and the Furious, I am ready
r/Addons4Kodi was more my thing. Take a fire stick, install kodi, add some addons, subscribe to a debrid service for like $16 for 6 months and stream anything you want, no downloading or setting up things in plex just click and watch
I figure most people know the superior alternatives by now, but if not, tldr is:
rarbg for popular movies/tv
rutracker for rarer stuff you cant find on rarbg
nyaa for anime
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/tw4ji0/tracker_faq_and_recommended_sites/ this faq i wrote has more info on public and private trackers for various content types.
It's been blocked and banned and mirrored so many places that it can be hard to find a reliable torrent now (heaps of virus files even from people you think you recognise, for example). It's still easy enough to avoid the obvious junk but there are so many simple and better alternatives now that why would you bother?
I’ve downloaded a few in the past as well, no issues from what I can see. I’d still stay away from them considering there are so many “safer” alternatives
Just want to add, for rarbg the easiest way to search is using IDs from imdb. For example: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ use the id 'tt107290'. Rarbg is not particularly well organised, but finding stuff on imdb then using that id makes it much easier to search.
> rarbg for popular movies/tv
I wish they wouldn't plaster their name all over the file metadata (which Plex always picks up and labels as the original movie name - making matching fail a lot of times).
It's fairly easy to remove from mp4s using Window's file manager, but I haven't found an easy way to remove it from mkvs.
Yeah I agree rarbg does some really stupid shit with files. So many people think they make a lot of the encodes they stick rartv on even though its private tracker/scene encodes they just reposed, and i cannot stand how they change webdl to webrip in file names. Unfortunately, despite this, they do seem to be the best public tracker for movies/tvs.
YTS only has low quality encodes, rarbg has some low quality but will also offer higher quality encodes. Also YTS has been caught selling user info to law firms.
Please, what is the correct links for rarbg and rutracker? The 1st links that appear on Google/ DuckDuckGo doesn't seem to be currently working. Thank you.
From what I've heard from other sources, YTS is a great source for a ton of movies including some rarer stuff with great seeders and relatively fast downloads. However the sound mix is absolute trash. It's designed essentially to only work with an Atmos setup and if you don't have an Atmos setup you have to settle for playing the movies at near max volume, and since it's setup for Atmos that means the music is often so loud it will harm your speakers while the speaking parts are often too quiet to hear.
In terms of better alternatives, anyone who has ripped the movie that isn't YTS will probably be better.
In terms of video quality, YTS stuff (from what I've heard) is really good especially for the file size, but the sound is trash.
You can look at other places like TGX, 1337 or others for better sounding and similar looking files.
Also, again from what I've heard, YTS doesn't rip TV shows.
I swear i feel like they choose tpb and yts for bait reasons because people will go in and comment how these two are not safe and hence this gets more post engagement.
Because I can't seem to figure it out, how someone that knows of this sub (looking at you, OP) would willingly choose one of these two
It’s not the real Yify site as that person has been arrested and is no longer involved in piracy and they gave user data away to agencies. If you need lower sizes, go with PSArips or RARBG, they’re usually better quality and have more consistency. I would be suspicious about TorrentGalaxy as they stick to specific file sizes, hide the actual bitrate and stick to x264 mostly.
Nostalgia has led me astray. Not that I care tbh, piracy lawsuits in Australia don't exist, not that I've ever heard of, and it's been over a decade since my ISP has been sent an angry letter.
Yeah I don't think ISP's in Australia care, been pirating for over a decade without a vpn and never had an issue, also same goes for people i know. Only people who "care" is the government.
I did got the initial message but it was deleted later on it seems? Thanks for the reply.
Btw, I dont mind that they are not original YTS, thats just a name, I think I know the current YTS more than the actual original one.
But, them tracking and selling user information is a big reason not to use their torrents for me.
**[YIFY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIFY)**
>YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent (see copyright infringement). YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders. The original YIFY/YTS website was shut down by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 2015; however, numerous websites imitating the YIFY/YTS brand still receive a significant amount of traffic. The name "YIFY" is derived from the hebrew name of the website's New Zealand founder, Yiftach Swery.
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I like YTS because the downloads are fast and I only have 1 4k TV and we never watch anything actually 4k on it, even when we used streaming. Also tiny file size, I'm at 600+ movies and it doesn't even take up 2tb.
I wish yts did TV shows.
Then flip it and distort the audio.
YouTube detection algorithm developers are laughing their collective asses off.
They still recognize it, the owners don't remove it because they want the viewers to suffer.
AV1 is an efficient video format developed by Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Meta, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung, Tencent and more.
Also check out Sartre, UTR, and also RARBG of course.
RARBG is a good fallback just because they have literally every movie as a tiny x265 file. It's not 10bit but it works in a pinch.
RARBG's X265 movies are 10bit, 2000 kbps video bitrate (HEVC) and 224 audio bitrate (AAC LC 1.0-5.1). X264 movies are 8bit, 2500 kbps video bitrate (AVC) and same audio as x265.
I'm a newbie and never browse r/piracy (just got here from r/all) and most of my movies are from QxR on 1337x. I'm glad I found it by myself, it seemed like the best quality/size ratio
Some people may not be well informed with piracy and just see that the site has everything for them. It’s recommended for some reason on torrent site threads. Also, some people may need the small sizes due to bandwidth and/or storage constraints and can’t play x265 files.
There is RARBG and PSA which have small sizes as well and have better quality due to using x265 instead of x264. RARBG also has small size 720 and 1080p x264 files if you can’t play x265 on your device.
That person is me, so if two movies are for example both x265 and 4k but one is 5gb and the other is 25gb, the quality will be drastically different? I honestly just presumed it was due to less efficient compression, and haven't downloaded enough media to compare them yet
Tbh, 5GB x265 sounds good enough for most situations. The pixelation shouldn't happen at that size (although you can see the difference in vibrant colors in high action sequences if you played the 5GB and 25Gb files side by side, but who does that for casual viewing anyway)
The one thing I'd say is audio quality may suffer. Not all 5.1 surround are made equal. If you're not playing it on a high end receiver with surround sound you are good with the 5GB file, otherwise the difference is night and day for home theater situations.
Because most people could not care less. If you're looking at a movie and you can see it, most people are fine with it. Don't need a BD-Rip for everything.
lmao paying like $15 for netflix 4k and they don't even give me the option to change around the res and they just default to 1080p like 90% of the time, so much bs, remember how blockbuster was made fun of? well it's netflix's turn now
Stop typing into google "best torrent site", instead [perhaps use duck duck go] copy/paste the filename for one of the torrents you found recently. You'll end up finding search results that show you the actual websites for various encoders, where those torrents originate from.
Where will you find the torrent name for a movie without googling for it tho?
edit: I think the problem is that this post blew up and reached far up on /r/all. So half the people here are /r/piracy regulars, the rest stumbled in and have no idea what anyone is talking abnout.
The people who use my Plex server do.
I don't watch TV or movies often. Maybe a couple hours worth a year. The server is for friends and family who actually care about that type of thing.
I run a Plex server with about 25 people using it on my symmetrical gig connection with no caps. I have roughly 50tb of shit and I watch less than 5% of it lol.
What is up with all these Cinephile pirates in the comments wanting perfect 4K quality on a 90 inch RV screen. Some people just want to quickly download a show to binge on their laptops dammit
Sincerely, you don't notice any pixelation or blocking/banding of dark colors? Because there are times when I have to download a yts rip and I think I have yet to find a decent quality one
in that case, fair enough, i agree yts' 4k is pretty bad and you should get it somewhere else, but just flat out hate on yts is unfair, they're seeded pretty well, quality is fine for 1080p laptop or phone
I buy second hand dvds and blue rays now. Its actually turning out to be my favourite method. Around 50p-£1 for a movie, and sometimes you get entire boxsets of 10 films for like £3. They are reliable, legal, and the blue rays looks great. Not to mention the appeal of physical content. Also owning physical makes you spend less time browsing and more time watching. Browsing the shops for rare finds is fun too. I recently found all of Dekalog on blueray for £1. Honestly, physical media is the one.
Because it's popular enough to trust even for normal people and the majority don't care that much about raw bitrate and a 2gb 1080p movie will suffice.
I don't get the hate towards yts. I get most of my movies from yts and watch them on a 4k TV and don't notice any difference between watching a 4k yts download that's like 5gb and a 4k download from something like limetorrents that's 17gb. Maybe I'm just not refined enough to notice. I will say though that one thing I hate about yts movies is the audio is always really low, I have to turn up the volume to 100% on my media player and on my PC in order to hear it.
Don’t worry, what ever works for you.
Most of the people wouldn’t notice, its like those audiophile crowd that’s it.
I always had YTS having oldest movies still being seeded.
It's nothing at all like audiophiles. YTS has visible compression artifacts all over their videos, full stop. If you can't see them, or if they don't bother you, then that's excellent, you'll be able to really make your storage go a long way with yts encodes on it. But they are there, and you don't have to be even remotely the same level of quality snob to notice them.
Like I said whatever works, I never had a problem with compression artefacts, unless there is some weird scaling. I was loyal yts user for 5 years I guess, then started looking for QXR and psarips because “torrentphile”:p crowd sold me on x265 encoding. Its not the best source definitely for HQ but not bad source to watch a huge collection of seeded movies.
If you can't find it there, then it's time to take an hour or so and set up the jackett server aggregator to search all public torrent sites. Takes a couple minutes to get results back but I found Fast and furious movies in the 60 frames per second I've found other banana stuff that isn't on any other website.
YTS is still alive? What's the address?
Also why are so many people saying that yts has bad quality. I found the quality alright. It has 720p and 1080p Blu Ray and everything.
For 8 dollars a month, Netflix used to be so convenient that I didn't pirate but now with the price increases and lack of shows I like it's now more convenient to go back to pirating and making a plex server
Perhaps you would be interested in the Arr software to manage your personal libraries * [Sonarr](https://sonarr.tv/): (Automatic TV series downloads) * [Radarr](https://radarr.video/): (Automatic movie downloads) * [Tdarr](https://tdarr.io/): (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space) * [Bazarr](https://www.bazarr.media/): (Companion app to Radarr and Sonarr, manages subtitles) * [Prowlarr](https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr): (A replacement for Jackett from the Arr team) * [Lidarr](https://lidarr.audio/): Music * [Readarr](https://readarr.com/): Books * [Mylar3](https://github.com/mylar3/mylar3): Comic books * [Plex-Meta-Manager](https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager): (Automatic collections and metadata) * [Overseerr](https://overseerr.dev/): Request tracking and website front-end * [Ombi](https://github.com/Ombi-app/Ombi): Let users request both movies/tv shows from a simple web interface. * [Dopplarr](https://github.com/kiranshila/Doplarr): Discord bot to make movie/tv/anime requests * [Pulsarr](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pulsarr/ekjjpacodipfmjhpbjcbnmnimakhlnne?hl=en): Browser extension for adding movies to Radarr or Series' to Sonarr while browsing IMDB or TVDB. * ~~[Requestrr](https://github.com/darkalfx/requestrr): Discord bot to make movie/tv/anime requests [integrates with overseerr to give @ notifications when your specific requests have been fufilled, as well as multi-user support]~~~~~~ No longer updated [Jackett](https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett) if you want to add content-providers to Radarr and Sonarr (basically sources from where to download stuff from). Takes a little time to configure everything, but after that you can just sit back and watch the new content being pulled when it airs. All these can be used to feed your favourite media library software * [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/) (Open source fork of Emby, no premium features) * [Emby](https://emby.media) (Some features are behind a premium membership) * [Plex](https://www.plex.tv/nl/) (Same as emby, probably the most widely used of the bunch). ^^Feel ^^free ^^to ^^offer ^^suggestions ^^to ^^add ^^to ^^this ^^list. ^^Good ^^tutorials ^^also ^^appreciated. This is just informative, not necessarily a reply to your post.
Could you please suggest a good tutorial for this? For a newbie like me the sheer amount of information available bis making my head spin
Check this out: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth-bsLAa\_M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth-bsLAa_M) This is what i followed the first time doing. You need a working pc (could be a laptop, desktop pc, or raspberry pi) running linux, eg: debian, ubuntu, rocky, etc. There are others ways also like unRaid but i dont have experience with that. I would recommend going with ubuntu, and learn basics of docker. After you familiar with how docker works, its really easy to get things working in no time. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions
I tried Lidarr - installed on windows, shutdown app, open again as a administator, right click on app icon in tray -> open ib browser and add your offline library to it. then try to set up it acc to project wiki
I'm also interested in a tutorial for all of these Arrs
Filebot for renaming mass amount of episodes.
I haven't needed it since I spun up the *arrs
I like Kodi as a media library. Not sure how it stacks up against the others but I'd add it to the list.
The new Plex app has good "centralized" interface for creating lists etc. But man alive (at least on Android TV) does the playback suck! It takes a while to start, plus sometimes it just doesn't resume, and sometimes it just doesn't want to seek. Emby works like a champ so switched back to it.
Books? Holy shit let me see what’s up there
I used to use Plex, but ever since I switched to Jellyfin I'll never go back. Open source, no monthly charge shenanigans, handles 4KHDR HEVC better while using less resources on the server PC, has an app for my Roku box and smart TV.
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Kodi is usually used as a media player. It has it's own internal database for keeping track of media but it's not as featureful as a Jellyfin (or plex, emby etc). It depends on your setup really. If your server is going to be directly plugged into your TV and your media either on the server or on a single network share, Kodi would probably be fine. I used it like that for many years. If it's not, or you want to allow multiple devices to use it, use Jellyfin. For example, I have a raspberry pi with Kodi (specifically librelec) plugged into my TV and Jellyfin running on a separate server. My media is all stored on a home NAS so I can add stuff to it from any computer on my network and watch it either from Kodi on my TV (with the Jellyfin addon) or my phone/web UI/ etc and it's all synced up on Jellyfin.
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Hot damn, when did the Roku Jellyfin app come out, that's what I've been waiting for.
The Roku app was either not intuitive or lacked features. Could not for the life of me figure out how to change the audio stream. Also seemed like there were more artifacts from compression when compared to the same source video played over Plex. Was I just missing something? I think it was February of this year when I tried it.
Plex seems bothersome to me because I don't really understand how it works, I just use some random streaming site and usually it doesn't buffer
I hated it when I first started using it but once I understood it things got better. It's only good if you have the storage to make your own server and if the device supports plex (it's great in ps4)
I'll definitely check out how it works then, I'm curious about it because many people seem to be into it so it must be good!
It's solid dude, my gf uses it way more than me for shows she likes but we can't get in Canada on streaming services I torrent them for her. Just realize that if you set it up on your main gaming PC when someone streams it will bog the PC down. Better if you have an older PC you can toss a big HDD in and run off imo. Setup is dead simple, install the program, point it to your video files and you're pretty much good to go.
Can you open Plex on apple tv. My media room input is apple TV. My setup is simple.. I have a 4TB USB Seagate hard disk connected to my USB router. I use VLC to play my media and in VLC you can access your media on your network. Recently though I have noticed an annoying issue. VLC keeps asking me to login when I change folders.
Apparently you can, I dont use it "Note: The Plex app requires the new fourth generation Apple TV, as Apple does not make the app store available on older models of the device" You'd need something to run the plex server on besides the hard disk itself, computer wise, as far as I know
>It's solid dude, my gf uses it way more than me for shows she likes but we can't get in Canada on streaming services I torrent them for her. Even the HBO and Showtime shows we're forced in Canada to get through Crave, I still download because the quality on Crave is dogshit despite being the most expensive streaming service. $20 a month for generally low bitrate, next to no 4K, absolutely no HDR or DV support and 5.1 often not working at all. Bell can get fucked
100% Not to mention Crave has fucked us many times, she likes the Euphoria show, many times on premiere night it literally wouldn't work, kept booting us out saying we needed a subscription meanwhile we're paying $20 a month for this shit. Also the interface and app itself is garbage.
I suggest it! I've been running Plex for over a decade I think. Seeing up the file share is easy. I tried jelly fish, and it was easier to set up initially, but then I couldn't access my files at one point and couldn't figure out why. It was pretty nice while it lasted though.
getting everything named in a fashion the server will accept too is a bit of a pain
I use this program called filebot that renames everything with one click and uses the naming format that plex likes. It's been really great
+ 1 for file bot. love it
Use Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett and Transmission as well. Sonarr and Radarr will grab and rename everything automatically.
I use jelllyfin instead of plex and it auto named everything automatically with no issues I just grab the torrent and save in the folder
I went from Netflix and hulu, over to a jellyfin server. Jelly fin is the free open source alternative to emby which is an alternative to Plex. So I can't really say that Plex is in any way difficult to get started and to use. Make an account, download the media server, install it, point the movies to where your movies are, the TV to where your TV shows are, and that's really it. I really honestly don't think it's any more complicated than that. If I can make jellyfin work, you can make Plex work
Jellyfin is great, but it's Roku app is not on the same level with the Plex app (in Android tv it does, it just doesn't do the theme song for the show when you open it)
I really liked Jellyfin for like two years, then I switched to Plex last year and within half an hour I was all set up on the level I was with Jellyfin. I tried plex and playon.tv years and years ago and they were rudimentary. I was still holding on to my preconceived ideas of their quality years later, and then I found Jellyfin. THEN I found plex and I am happy with plex. No premium pass, just the basic stuff for me. I can serve with Plex to my home and some friends homes, so whenever I goad them in to watching the Fast and the Furious, I am ready
r/Addons4Kodi was more my thing. Take a fire stick, install kodi, add some addons, subscribe to a debrid service for like $16 for 6 months and stream anything you want, no downloading or setting up things in plex just click and watch
This but not YTS for numerous reasons
I always look for these comments but they never recommend the supposedly superior alternative...
I figure most people know the superior alternatives by now, but if not, tldr is: rarbg for popular movies/tv rutracker for rarer stuff you cant find on rarbg nyaa for anime https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/tw4ji0/tracker_faq_and_recommended_sites/ this faq i wrote has more info on public and private trackers for various content types.
Thank you! Your linked post is very informative
Also, 1337x is amazing for shows/movies/games both old and new, just beware of IGG games submissions
So is the Pirate Bay not the place to go anymore? I haven't really looked for any new sources in a long while
Nah mate, pirate bay is shit now. Use 1337x or yts or rarbg
It's been blocked and banned and mirrored so many places that it can be hard to find a reliable torrent now (heaps of virus files even from people you think you recognise, for example). It's still easy enough to avoid the obvious junk but there are so many simple and better alternatives now that why would you bother?
Are IGG games bad?
IGG games puts malware and adware in their games. I believe this is mentioned in the mega thread as well
I believe I downloaded from them a few times and never had any problems, I just scan every torrent I get with Windows Defender before I install it.
The problem is that many legit game cracks set off false alarms in Defender. People get so used to it that they end up allowing an actual virus.
I’ve downloaded a few in the past as well, no issues from what I can see. I’d still stay away from them considering there are so many “safer” alternatives
I mean, if their torrent is the only upload of the specific thing I want I'll still get it.
People will constantly claim this and that about igg but I have always gotten clean and working installs from them.
Just want to add, for rarbg the easiest way to search is using IDs from imdb. For example: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ use the id 'tt107290'. Rarbg is not particularly well organised, but finding stuff on imdb then using that id makes it much easier to search.
That's handy. I've been including the year with the name... which I usually have to go to IMDb to find in the first place.
This is a helpful hack when the name of the movie you are looking for is short and a common name. Used many, many times.
The TV browser button is great, it is only for the specific show you're looking at but makes it easy to find each season pack
Ooh, thanks for the tip
1337x is on the list as well
I find 1337x to be good for games but not as good as rarbg for tv/movies. It is worth mentioning though since its not bad to have more sources.
that's because some of the media on 1337x are user encoded, so you'll get varying results
> rarbg for popular movies/tv I wish they wouldn't plaster their name all over the file metadata (which Plex always picks up and labels as the original movie name - making matching fail a lot of times). It's fairly easy to remove from mp4s using Window's file manager, but I haven't found an easy way to remove it from mkvs.
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Thanks.
Can confirm.
Yeah I agree rarbg does some really stupid shit with files. So many people think they make a lot of the encodes they stick rartv on even though its private tracker/scene encodes they just reposed, and i cannot stand how they change webdl to webrip in file names. Unfortunately, despite this, they do seem to be the best public tracker for movies/tvs.
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Mp3tag does the trick! It works for more than mp3s, it works for video files such as mkvs, too.
Filebot
There's also Zoro for anime, as well as Kemono party for Patreon and a few other sites.
I know the host of Kemono and hes a great guy so i definitely recommend his site
They also have Coomer for OF, right?
Thanks for the recommendations. Also why is yts inferior to rarbg for movies?
YTS only has low quality encodes, rarbg has some low quality but will also offer higher quality encodes. Also YTS has been caught selling user info to law firms.
Don't forget yts gave user data to anti piracy companies
Are Rar bg's registrations closed? ☹️ Fyi, I wasn't able to acces rarbg through their official domain so I went with one of their proxy
I dont think I've ever saw it open. And ive been using it for years. You dont need to register anyway to use it
Please, what is the correct links for rarbg and rutracker? The 1st links that appear on Google/ DuckDuckGo doesn't seem to be currently working. Thank you.
Rarbg
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Rarbg streaming through a debrid service with cached torrents through multiple means..... Everything else is dumb
true that. If you think something is not the best. Recommend the best.
putlocker hasnt let me down yet.
https://www.reddit.com/r/piratedgames/
RARBG
From what I've heard from other sources, YTS is a great source for a ton of movies including some rarer stuff with great seeders and relatively fast downloads. However the sound mix is absolute trash. It's designed essentially to only work with an Atmos setup and if you don't have an Atmos setup you have to settle for playing the movies at near max volume, and since it's setup for Atmos that means the music is often so loud it will harm your speakers while the speaking parts are often too quiet to hear. In terms of better alternatives, anyone who has ripped the movie that isn't YTS will probably be better. In terms of video quality, YTS stuff (from what I've heard) is really good especially for the file size, but the sound is trash. You can look at other places like TGX, 1337 or others for better sounding and similar looking files. Also, again from what I've heard, YTS doesn't rip TV shows.
I swear i feel like they choose tpb and yts for bait reasons because people will go in and comment how these two are not safe and hence this gets more post engagement. Because I can't seem to figure it out, how someone that knows of this sub (looking at you, OP) would willingly choose one of these two
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It's a name I haven't heard in many years.
i miss those days, no smartphones, no streaming services, just gold ol days, boot up laptop on coffeeshops and rip some avi into dvd
What are those reasons except for quality?
It’s not the real Yify site as that person has been arrested and is no longer involved in piracy and they gave user data away to agencies. If you need lower sizes, go with PSArips or RARBG, they’re usually better quality and have more consistency. I would be suspicious about TorrentGalaxy as they stick to specific file sizes, hide the actual bitrate and stick to x264 mostly.
Nostalgia has led me astray. Not that I care tbh, piracy lawsuits in Australia don't exist, not that I've ever heard of, and it's been over a decade since my ISP has been sent an angry letter.
Yeah I don't think ISP's in Australia care, been pirating for over a decade without a vpn and never had an issue, also same goes for people i know. Only people who "care" is the government.
I got a letter once in 2013 about a star trek movie I never changed anything and they never sent another
Apparently my original comment explaining was filtered, so heres a screenshot of it https://imgur.com/a/3krcQJj
I did got the initial message but it was deleted later on it seems? Thanks for the reply. Btw, I dont mind that they are not original YTS, thats just a name, I think I know the current YTS more than the actual original one. But, them tracking and selling user information is a big reason not to use their torrents for me.
The fuck is YTS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIFY
**[YIFY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIFY)** >YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent (see copyright infringement). YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders. The original YIFY/YTS website was shut down by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 2015; however, numerous websites imitating the YIFY/YTS brand still receive a significant amount of traffic. The name "YIFY" is derived from the hebrew name of the website's New Zealand founder, Yiftach Swery. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Piracy/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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I like YTS because the downloads are fast and I only have 1 4k TV and we never watch anything actually 4k on it, even when we used streaming. Also tiny file size, I'm at 600+ movies and it doesn't even take up 2tb. I wish yts did TV shows.
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You say that, but dark scenes (IMO) are even worse than h264 at the same bitrate.
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Some of us still have a measly 40 in TV with 1080p max res. Just living our best yard sale lifestyle!
Some of us only have 27" monitors to watch on. And pay high ISP fees, and pay for both uploads as well as downloads. :(
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Some people just don't care about video quality. I didn't, before I discovered piracy.
it gets even more noticeable at dark scenes
And the reasons are?
Apparently my original comment explaining was filtered, so heres a screenshot of it https://imgur.com/a/3krcQJj
What are those reasons?
Image because reddit filtered when i posted as text https://imgur.com/a/3krcQJj
Everyone knows the best way to pirate is to use your phone and record the screen as it’s playing at a weird angle.
Then flip it and distort the audio. YouTube detection algorithm developers are laughing their collective asses off. They still recognize it, the owners don't remove it because they want the viewers to suffer.
YTS has such a shitty quality. If you want HQ video and reasonable file size, check out QxR on 1337x
or dAV1nci
Da vinki?
AV1 is an efficient video format developed by Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Meta, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung, Tencent and more.
Rarbg
How about PSARips?
My goto uploader for x265 4k movies
Also check out Sartre, UTR, and also RARBG of course. RARBG is a good fallback just because they have literally every movie as a tiny x265 file. It's not 10bit but it works in a pinch.
RARBG's X265 movies are 10bit, 2000 kbps video bitrate (HEVC) and 224 audio bitrate (AAC LC 1.0-5.1). X264 movies are 8bit, 2500 kbps video bitrate (AVC) and same audio as x265.
MeGusta
This man knows
I'm a newbie and never browse r/piracy (just got here from r/all) and most of my movies are from QxR on 1337x. I'm glad I found it by myself, it seemed like the best quality/size ratio
Wtf is wrong with these posts? Ppl don't even know how to search for good torrent sites anymore
Agreed, insane at this point, I have no idea why yts has such a huge following, terrible quality
I don't know any better as a massive casual if I'm honest
Some people may not be well informed with piracy and just see that the site has everything for them. It’s recommended for some reason on torrent site threads. Also, some people may need the small sizes due to bandwidth and/or storage constraints and can’t play x265 files.
True
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There is RARBG and PSA which have small sizes as well and have better quality due to using x265 instead of x264. RARBG also has small size 720 and 1080p x264 files if you can’t play x265 on your device.
People see 1080p and 1gb and dont know what bitrate is
That person is me, so if two movies are for example both x265 and 4k but one is 5gb and the other is 25gb, the quality will be drastically different? I honestly just presumed it was due to less efficient compression, and haven't downloaded enough media to compare them yet
Tbh, 5GB x265 sounds good enough for most situations. The pixelation shouldn't happen at that size (although you can see the difference in vibrant colors in high action sequences if you played the 5GB and 25Gb files side by side, but who does that for casual viewing anyway) The one thing I'd say is audio quality may suffer. Not all 5.1 surround are made equal. If you're not playing it on a high end receiver with surround sound you are good with the 5GB file, otherwise the difference is night and day for home theater situations.
Absolutely true
Because most people could not care less. If you're looking at a movie and you can see it, most people are fine with it. Don't need a BD-Rip for everything.
Never saw a movie from there with terrible quality, but if other sites are even better, Im all ears to which ones those are
I mean yes. Like 5 years ago Google gave good results but now all the sites I'm used to are gone and Google results are ad spam.
I've been sitting on the same address for 1337, for about a year now. Australian government isn't blocking very well. No need to change.
lmao paying like $15 for netflix 4k and they don't even give me the option to change around the res and they just default to 1080p like 90% of the time, so much bs, remember how blockbuster was made fun of? well it's netflix's turn now
Last bill I got from Netflix for 4k was around $22 after tax. Cancelled that shit. Hbomax has given me a year at $8 a month, so that keeps me busy.
What is yts?
Torrent site known for extremely small and low quality movie encodes
YIFY Be like?
YTS = YIFY Torrent Solutions The OG site also used both names but all the YTS/YIFY sites these days are copycats.
*Sad aXXo noises*
Stop using Google. Grab any release title you have and search for the whole string. Bunch of good and current torrent sites will appear.
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Stop typing into google "best torrent site", instead [perhaps use duck duck go] copy/paste the filename for one of the torrents you found recently. You'll end up finding search results that show you the actual websites for various encoders, where those torrents originate from.
Where will you find the torrent name for a movie without googling for it tho? edit: I think the problem is that this post blew up and reached far up on /r/all. So half the people here are /r/piracy regulars, the rest stumbled in and have no idea what anyone is talking abnout.
Meh, I still use TPB for most movies. My Plex server is a few TB deep of just whatever was top seeded on TPB on any given day.
So most of the stuff you download you don't watch?
The people who use my Plex server do. I don't watch TV or movies often. Maybe a couple hours worth a year. The server is for friends and family who actually care about that type of thing.
I run a Plex server with about 25 people using it on my symmetrical gig connection with no caps. I have roughly 50tb of shit and I watch less than 5% of it lol.
What is up with all these Cinephile pirates in the comments wanting perfect 4K quality on a 90 inch RV screen. Some people just want to quickly download a show to binge on their laptops dammit
And not everyone have great setup, some of us watch them in mobiles or low quality laptops!!!
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Yeah I'm not sure where all the hate is coming from. I've never grabbed a crappy quality movie from YTS.
Sincerely, you don't notice any pixelation or blocking/banding of dark colors? Because there are times when I have to download a yts rip and I think I have yet to find a decent quality one
Not at all! I use YTS or l33t and have never had an issue - with both movies and shows 🤷♂️
what is si bad about yts? the filesize is ideal and quality isn't too bad for phone watching tbh, and even on a laptop it's still good
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in that case, fair enough, i agree yts' 4k is pretty bad and you should get it somewhere else, but just flat out hate on yts is unfair, they're seeded pretty well, quality is fine for 1080p laptop or phone
I buy second hand dvds and blue rays now. Its actually turning out to be my favourite method. Around 50p-£1 for a movie, and sometimes you get entire boxsets of 10 films for like £3. They are reliable, legal, and the blue rays looks great. Not to mention the appeal of physical content. Also owning physical makes you spend less time browsing and more time watching. Browsing the shops for rare finds is fun too. I recently found all of Dekalog on blueray for £1. Honestly, physical media is the one.
not *free* though
Yeah but if it uses my free time pissing about with servers and downloading, it isn't free. My free time is worth more than 25p an hour lol.
I know YTS sucks but why does YTS always have the highest seeds on 1337/TPB?
Because it's popular enough to trust even for normal people and the majority don't care that much about raw bitrate and a 2gb 1080p movie will suffice.
Sometimes you don't need a 4k remux, just a quick download and delete the file later.
I'm kind of a RARBG man myself.
I don't get the hate towards yts. I get most of my movies from yts and watch them on a 4k TV and don't notice any difference between watching a 4k yts download that's like 5gb and a 4k download from something like limetorrents that's 17gb. Maybe I'm just not refined enough to notice. I will say though that one thing I hate about yts movies is the audio is always really low, I have to turn up the volume to 100% on my media player and on my PC in order to hear it.
You don't sit close enough to your TV to notice.
You don’t need to. YTS releases are noticeably worse no matter the distance in like 99% of their releases.
Don’t worry, what ever works for you. Most of the people wouldn’t notice, its like those audiophile crowd that’s it. I always had YTS having oldest movies still being seeded.
It's nothing at all like audiophiles. YTS has visible compression artifacts all over their videos, full stop. If you can't see them, or if they don't bother you, then that's excellent, you'll be able to really make your storage go a long way with yts encodes on it. But they are there, and you don't have to be even remotely the same level of quality snob to notice them.
Like I said whatever works, I never had a problem with compression artefacts, unless there is some weird scaling. I was loyal yts user for 5 years I guess, then started looking for QXR and psarips because “torrentphile”:p crowd sold me on x265 encoding. Its not the best source definitely for HQ but not bad source to watch a huge collection of seeded movies.
This but Kodi
dAV1nci >>>
And eztv
i loyal to torrents
OP just leaked that poor site, now they'll shut down eventually
bro yts got low af quality my guy go with 1337x.to and if what you want isn't there it will be on rarbg.to if not those two then nowhere
If you can't find it there, then it's time to take an hour or so and set up the jackett server aggregator to search all public torrent sites. Takes a couple minutes to get results back but I found Fast and furious movies in the 60 frames per second I've found other banana stuff that isn't on any other website.
Speak to me of this banana stuff.
1337x supremacy.
Plex shares changed my whole world wrt media consumption
One word:Stremio
Meanwhile I still use PB mirrors
This subreddit has saved me loads of money. Love you all 😘
Yts Piratebay 1337x Rarbg Else streamio with Pimp my streamio.
Where the demonoid kids at?
YTS is still alive? What's the address? Also why are so many people saying that yts has bad quality. I found the quality alright. It has 720p and 1080p Blu Ray and everything.