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Brickfrog

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  • A friend of mine looking to download episodes of a show available on Amazon Prime video to store on his Jellyfin server for preservation. Is there a guide for this anywhere that they can reference?

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  • The paid way to do this is is to buy something like Streamfab to download the stream directly from the source. Note for the most part you will be limited to 720p/1080p. Another paid software that used to be around was Redfox AnyStream but they went offline last year.

    Only private trackers / scene would know about 2160p / 4K downloads and they're not going to share publicly about their methods.

    The free method is to attempt to do the video capture yourself (see earlier comments) rather than download the stream itself.

    Of course for the most part tons of content has already been downloaded by others and made available via torrents, DDL, etc.

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  • Seems like more plebbit spam.

  • Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher

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  • That's interesting, apparently it was mentioned on github but nothing seems to have changed in the end

    https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

    Haven't used that software in a long time but maybe there's an opt-out somewhere during runtime? Although I don't see why a user needs to be required to opt out of nonsense like this when just writing firmware to a USB disk.

    Only ever touched balenaEtcher when some project or distro recommended it. Overall prefer Rufus for this sort of thing when working on Windows.

  • Google Pixel owners say 'Now Playing' hardly works anymore – what do you think?

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  • Just tested it and it seems to work normally on my Pixel 7.

  • Seeding

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  • Lots of permaseeders out there, you can be one too :)

    There's no real downside as long as your ISP doesn't limit your bandwidth.

  • Broken mp4 files?

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  • I’m getting the “moov atom not found” error even though the file is at 100%. The whole torrent isn’t at 100% yet, but I enabled sequential downloading.

    Either the .mp4 is corrupt, or you need to wait for the torrent itself to finish 100% complete.

    You are downloading in sequential mode, and it sounds like these .mp4 files were generated with the moov atom at the end of the file. Which means the file is cut off at the very end (aka corrupt) or the torrent itself just never finished downloading the last pieces of that .mp4 file.

    At least that's how I'm understanding your question... you're saying the file is at 100% but you're also saying the torrent isn't at 100%, to me that sounds like there's torrent pieces missing to complete the rest of the .mp4 file maybe.

    EDIT: Just to add, technically encoding software can write that moov atom at the beginning of the .mp4 file which would avoid this problem entirely but it sounds like these files you're downloading aren't encoded that way. In encoding software usually that means "optimizing" the file or making it "web" ready for a web browser to play immediately as it downloads sequentially.. I forget what ffmpeg calls it specifically.

    EDIT 2: Thinking about it, if you're desperate to play this file as-is maybe you can run it through ffmpeg to create a new .mp4 file and then play it that way. It's not a real fix since the original source seems to be broken but you may be able to get something playable at least.

  • Locked

    Why are mods censoring threads about free VPNs?

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  • Again with this? You're just spamming /c/Piracy at this point (and probably breaking rule #4).

  • Port forwarding and VPN

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  • Torrent swarms need at least one connectable (port forwarded) peer for any torrent data to transfer. In large torrent swarms you won't notice this too much since there are usually plenty of connectable peers available.

    The effect tends to be more noticeable in smaller swarms.

    In practice you may not notice unless you try to download those torrents with one lone seed who also happen to have no port forward. In those cases you'll see there's a seed but no torrent data ever transfers over to you. (note that the same happens in reverse if you're the lone seed on many torrents)

  • Are there modern trackers for YIFY and RARBG stuff?

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  • Are there new ones that carry the torch? Do the successors to these release groups have their trackers too?

    The vast majority of public torrent indexers do not run their own trackers.

    Dead trackers are common with old torrents. Personally I remove all the public trackers and just let DHT take care of that.

    But if you prefer to have active public trackers on there then you could

    1. Remove all the dead ones
    2. Add the top x trackers from https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

  • qbittorrent cli project

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  • torrent client for i2pd

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  • There are only a few torrent clients that support I2P

    • i2psnark
    • qBittorrent
    • BiglyBT
    • XD

    Also note that the only torrent client with DHT support via i2P is i2psnark, and only when using the standard java I2P. So in your case when using i2pd you can rule out torrenting via DHT. (BiglyBT sort of supports DHT but only when you manually click a button to force it to search DHT via I2P)

    i2psnark standalone I think would still work for you (without DHT) but it is very, very feature limited when compared to standard torrent clients.

    BiglyBT sort of works but it's not great as a full-time I2P torrent client, the devs purposely designed it to use I2P as a backup to regular clearnet torrenting. I'm not even sure if it's possible to configure it to be a full-time I2P torrent client.

    That leaves you with qBittorrent and XD so those would be the ones you could check out. No idea about adding magnets or anything else via CLI but I do know there are tools that exist to do stuff like that for qBittorrent e.g. https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli

    PS - Since you're not going to be torrenting with DHT it is important for you to make sure I2P trackers are added to every torrent you load otherwise you'll never find any torrent peers to connect to.

    These are working public trackers in I2P that I know of:

    http://w7tpbzncbcocrqtwwm3nezhnnsw4ozadvi2hmvzdhrqzfxfum7wa.b32.i2p/a

    http://opentracker.skank.i2p/a

    http://opentracker.r4sas.i2p/a

    http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/a

    This tracker is also in I2P but it only tracks torrents registered at their site:

    http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php

  • Any good private trackers for music

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  • I’ve found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they’re “hard” to get into

    You just have to interview for either/both of them, they're not really that hard to get into. Certainly easier to get into vs any of the big movie/tv trackers, none of those have interview to join.

    That said if you are already established at other big private trackers then often you may be able to just join via the tracker's internal forums, tracker recruiters are often found there.

    Discussed in the earlier post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35846542

  • PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.

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  • Ah that's interesting, all the banks around me stopped issuing ATM cards and only issue debit cards nowadays. I wish I wasn't required to have a debit card with those banks - I purposely tell my banks to disable debit/POS features on the debit card so it is only functional at ATMs.

    All that aside you should consider getting a credit card or a prepaid credit card for those types of transactions. It's safer to separate your bank account from your day-to-day payments/shopping, not great when someone gets access to your debit card which then gives them direct access to your bank account balance. At least with a credit card those situations are just a dispute that never affect your actual money in the bank.

  • PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.

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  • Disagree, haven't touched PayPal or anything related to PayPal in years without issue.

    When PayPal bought Venmo I stopped using them too. And long before that stopped using Ebay back when PayPal/Ebay were tied together.

  • How do you pay for your seedbox

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  • I've always paid with crypto.

    But you might be able to buy a prepaid credit card with cash and then use that for the seedbox payment? Maybe just double-check that it would work with your seedbox provider e.g. in the U.S. most prepaid cards sold in stores are U.S. only and won't process international transactions and since most seedbox providers are outside the U.S. they may not work together. Haven't spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the right prepaid card for those scenarios.

  • IPTorrents Connection Reset By Peer - Prowlarr [Resolved]

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  • Just a random guess - Maybe Cloudflare is killing the connection attempts every now and then? IPT does use Cloudflare on their end. I don't have any specific experience with that but people have mentioned using things like FlareSolverr when using the *arr apps with a site behind Cloudflare.

    If it's not that then maybe it's just IPT, hopefully someone else with the *arr apps set up with that tracker can give you more insight.

  • Calif.-founded EV maker Canoo, once worth $2.4 billion, goes belly-up after moving to Texas

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  • In August, Canoo moved its headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to Justin, Texas — asking 137 of the office’s 194 employees to relocate, while cutting the remaining staff.

    Yikes, not great for all those employees that moved their entire lives out to TX just to get laid off. They weren't even working in TX long enough to qualify for unemployment. Hopefully they were getting paid enough to deal with relocation and maybe have enough saved up to get the hell out of TX after this.

  • Privacy Friendly Alternative to Paypal

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  • My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.

    If you're just looking for virtual cards, could you just apply for a credit card with that capability? In the U.S. there are credit card providers that can do that, not sure about Canada but I figured it'd be the same there.

    Otherwise the comment from /u/brrt@sh.itjust.works is spot on, all the phone apps like Google Pay already virtualize your card number so you're not actually sharing your full details with the merchant. Or make your own prepaid debit card via a separate checking account you put a bit of spending money into.

  • What torrenting software is everyone using nowadays?

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  • I don't use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn't known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.

    Of course it would be better if it was open source but he's never been an open source coder AFAIK.