I’m a simple man I use Stremio.
Stremio combined with RealDebrid is untouchable. Almost every show and movie you could ever think of, ready to go.
I discovered real-debrid yesterday, thanks to this post.
I was playing around with it last night using kodi. I’m gonna try out stremio thanks to your suggestion.
That said - it didn’t seem that reliable with kodi. Like I got through a whole movie but it just died once or twice. I ended up switching to another torrent / link and it played through to the end just fine.
I imagine this won’t necessarily improve with the switch to stremio. Was I just unlucky? Or is this the usual experience?
edit: yeah ok you’re right. kodi + real-debrid. great stuff.
I’d strongly advise not using debrid. With debrid you’re leeching off torrents without ever seeding anything back. It’s an abusive system. Not to mention it’s usually not files of any level of quality.
You can get unlucky on the odd occasion, theirs some torrents out there where the actual video file format isn’t friendly with streaming, but RealDebrid itself has been 100% reliable, for me anyway. If your using stremio their are settings you can change to increase the cache size, or you can play around with using a different video player within stremio, but in general the default settings should do the job.
You got any good overviews of RealDebrid outside of “google.”
Not sure where to look for info, but I’ve been doing this for a looooooong time (25+ years?) and always like to learn more. Currently rocking a 125+ TB server hosted in my basement for all my Linux isos and figure there may be another way.
No worries if not! I’m not expecting a novel or anything from anyone personally - just hoping there’s a decent crash course and some decent suggestions.
This link explains things fairly quickly for all debrid, the service I use is real debrid which you can follow identical steps for setting up: https://www.desidime.com/discussions/use-stremio-debrid-all-debrid-real-debrid-for-watching-content#:~:text=Debrid services are basically torrent,and windows%2C and works seamlessly.
The idea is essentially debrid services download the content of a torrent, and once one user has requested them, its stored and available for all other users to download, so no more dealing with Torrents with 0 seeders, at the speed of top grade file hosting services. You could use it for downloading content quicker and storing it on your local drives.
Stremio is hard to beat for ease of use, but personally I prefer Kodi/Fen for
- Kodi’s ability to customize audio - ie turn up center channel so you can actually hear what actors are mumbling without needing to constantly adjust the volume
- Fen’s interface and ability for the user to discover new content
The downsides are Kodi’s (relative) lack of stability compared to alternatives and the fact that you have to manage storage meticulously if you’re using a smart device to run it. Kodi’s thumbnail cache can get out of control rapidly.
