Stremio is a one-stop solution for your video entertainment. It's an app available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
It instantly plays whatever you want without waiting for it to download.
With Stremio you don't have to worry about all these streaming services or bother going to a torrent site :) You can turn Stremio into a piracy hub with only a couple of clicks.
You must use it with a VPN cuz piracy
Stremio will be connecting to torrent sites like thepiratebay and 1377x and using torrents on these sites.
How to set it up
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Download it from here and install it.
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It'll ask you to sign up when you open it. Don't sign up with Facebook. You can also click on Guest Login to use it without an account but you'll lose a couple of features.
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Now you'll see a puzzle piece, click on it to go to the addons page.
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From the Community Addons section you will add a couple of addons and that's it! The addons:
- torrentio Commonly refered to as the best addon for stremio.
- 123movies 123movies is a streaming site which can be better than torrenting for more obscure movies that don't have many peers.
- The Pirate Bay catalog Adds a catalog for the pirate bay with extra sort options
- jackett Lets you add and manage your own set of torrent sites
- If you want more (there's a lot) check out this list of addons. It's really good. Almost all of them can be added from the addons section in the app.
I've tried to keep the post short so feel free to ask whatever questions you might have
Stremio has a lot more features (recommendations, calendar and notifications for new episodes) that you can discover on your own.
So cancel your subscriptions and donate the money to libre software :sicko-hyper:
Thank you @Windows97 for your help with this post!
Yeah, I'm also a boomer like that. My younger friends are like "why not just watch it from a streaming site with ads and watermarks and shoddy encoding?".
No! I'd be downloading this 10 GB movie torrent from rutracker! Even with my shitty internet it usually loads fast enough you can start watching it right away if you enable sequential loading in qbittorrent.
Also, what's the deal with Netflix encoding? My friend swears when he downloads his shows the files are tiny without losing quality. How true is that?
I think Netflix typically uses VP9, which is comparable to H.265/HEVC in bitrate/quality. Of course, if your friend is watching on his phone, netflix can sacrifice quite a bit of quality before it becomes noticeable compared to watching on a HDTV.
The guy claims to not be able to spot the difference on his brand new gamer 4k monitor. That's what surprised me. Maybe it's different in motion than just comparing screenshots statically...
He's probably just not very picky. I think netflix uses about 1.5 Mbps for 1080 video, which equals 675 megabytes per hour or 1.35 GB for a two-hour movie. That's similar to an average 1080 torrent, of course you can do a lot better with BR rips.