Popcorn Time 0.5.0

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.0

by pentagrama • 2 years ago

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alpenbazi• 2 years ago

Nice, project resurrected?

CamelCaseName• 2 years ago

Popcorn Time is back?

_9za9• 2 years ago

The code never went anywhere.

hbcondo714• 2 years ago

I guess it “returned” a couple years ago, as discussed heavily here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972681

alecsm2• 2 years ago

Just yesterday I was thinking about Popcorn Time and now I see it here.

krembo• 2 years ago

Can you think of my bank account having 30m$? tnx

dylan60414• 2 years ago

Reminds me of the Little Johnny joke about "I need a bike!"

alecsm2• 2 years ago

I got you.

spapas82• 2 years ago

Works great! Any idea if it is possible to cast the video to my chromecast?

edm0nd• 2 years ago

IMO just join a private group and use Plex.

You'll never have any ISP woes/issues.

anonona_• 2 years ago

How?

14• 2 years ago

I know reddit had censored and shut the sub down but in past I used r/plexshare. You probably could just search for one on yandex or something. Google sucks for a search like that. The problem I had with plex was it can at any moment be shut down. Plex is actively looking for those sharing services like this and shutting them down. Then it would be offline from anywhere from 1hr to 12 hours. Usually pretty quick but more then one night I sit to watch my show and it had been shut down. I used a site called all media access I believe and they charged $10 a month. It was however with it in my opinion. They have since moved off plex and on to something like iptv but I just am not with them anymore so don’t know the details. But if I was you check out all media access.

NegativeLatency• 2 years ago

You might look into seedboxes, I use feral hosting, basically it’s a server someplace where torrenting is legal that you run a remote torrent client on. Then on a server in my house I sync the files locally with syncthing and run plex locally.

Jellyfin is another similar app to plex but it’s open source and while promising is not quite there yet for what I want out of a media app.

imbnwa• 2 years ago

Plex saved me from my Samsung TV's abysmal UPnP client.

ToucanLoucan• 2 years ago

If you happen to go down the same route I did and eventually get frustrated with Plex's frankly abysmal apps and interfaces (the server is terrific though) I cannot recommend Infuse enough as a replacement. I HATED the Plex Apple TV app and infuse is a fantastic replacement.

forevernoob• 2 years ago

As long as private trackers have absurd seeding rules and require you to sign up (initially) without your VPN active, I won't be touching them with a ten foot socket.

satvikpendem2• 2 years ago

Get a seedbox and set it to seed indefinitely, you solve both problems at once.

teaearlgraycold• 2 years ago

Just buy a hard drive.

Why are you so afraid of them knowing your IP?

kevincox• 2 years ago

From what I have seen about published seeding rules most trackers as switching to pretty reasonable rules. Typically the only major sin is not seeding for a minimum length of time (usually a few days). Then there are ratio rules but these are typically assisted by bonuses for long seeding even with no downloads and freeleach for new and popular torrents. There are still a few trackers where the site ratio stat is zero-sum but for the most part this isn't the case. As long as you do make content available you will not be punished.

Cyph0n4• 2 years ago

I think they mean join a group that uses a shared Plex server. People sell slots on their own servers with an automated/semi-automated request workflow for new content.

satvikpendem2• 2 years ago

Use Jellyfin over Plex, it is open source for one thing and it's not being enshittified as Plex is, as Plex tries to generate revenue from notoriously cheap customers, by definition.

hruzgar• 2 years ago

Anywhere I can find jellyfin shares?

STRiDEX• 2 years ago

Really interesting mix of npm packages, gulpfiles, jshint, both underscore and lodash, backbone.js, some stuff i've never really heard of like nedb which is probably because its more specific to electron. It actually uses node-webkit NW.js instead of electron.

It's an interesting mix of new and old things as a project that likely has changed hands many times. Like dayjs is pretty new.

nick_2• 2 years ago

The homogeneity of a JavaScript codebase has a tenth the half-life of an "enterprise" lang/framework.

IMO this is because the JavaScript ecosystem is speedrunning the decades of lessons learned by the greater software engineering field.

makeitrain• 2 years ago

I have been half jokingly saying they’re rewriting php.

ffsm8• 2 years ago

Your pet theory is questionable, as the JavaScript (ecosystem) is one of the oldest that's still wildly used everywhere.

The big libs have been pretty stable for the last decade though, even if the ecosystem itself feels quiet messy, likely because there are so many interested parties, each having their own ideas of how it should be.

And it's also often the first language for a lot of beginners. ..

KennyBlanken• 2 years ago

It's also some real shady shit, requiring MacOS users use an unsigned installer package.

There's no reason it should require an installer package when it can be distributed as a self-contained app.

I'm not giving authorization to an unsigned installer file made by some anonymous Russians.

NotPractical2• 2 years ago

The "unsigned" part isn't surprising, considering Apple would never approve it. But the installer package is far from ideal. It's typically only used when a program needs to install a privileged helper service, and I don't know why Popcorn Time would need that?

Edit: It appears to be just a .app file? Unless the .pkg is bundled in there...

ojosilva• 2 years ago

It would be interesting if Github here could put a green check next to the release files certifying they were entirely built from the sources in the repository that link to a corresponding ref/tag SHA. "No external files involved in the build". Obviously this would only be possible if the release files were built by GH Actions and the environment was a special one, absolutely sealed from the open internet that GH would certify, filter and curate.

Still, this would not prevent some shady file in the repo or build hack to go unnoticed, but maybe it could become a starting point for delivering safer binary distributions from open source projects.

guessmyname• 2 years ago

You’re only looking at the top 12 download links. There’s a link that says “Show all 22 assets”.

Click on that to find a link to download “Popcorn-Time-0.5.0-osx64.zip”, which contains a self-contained [.app] folder.

me551ah2• 2 years ago

My biggest gripe with Popcorn Time is that it doesn't run on my TV. I use a cloud server instead and Radarr/Sonarr combined with Real-Debrid(to download torrents) and Usenet to download content. I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating > 6 and a good number of votes.

This allows me to run Plex/Jellyfin on my TV and stream. Bonus points is that it even works on my mobile phone when I'm on the move!

tarruda• 2 years ago

I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating > 6 and a good number of votes.

That seems like a lot of movies. How many of those 16TB are used by all movies with IMBD rating > 6 ?

yegle2• 2 years ago

Depending on the quality of the media.

The highest bitrate of 4k Bluray Remux movie in my library is ~90Mbps which translates to 50GiB~80GiB per movie.

dylan60414• 2 years ago

And how many of these movies have you actually watched? This just sounds like a text book case of digital hoarding. Most people I know that torrent do it on a distinct interest in watching vs might possibly some day maybe want to watch it so let's just get it ahead of time.

I'm not judging, just noting that it's a definite new "use case" to me

manmal3• 2 years ago

I‘ve recently heard the term „data prepper“, which I think nails it. I‘d probably qualify as one myself.

Uehreka• 2 years ago

I’m not about to do this myself, but I can totally see why someone would. With the way some movies just fall off of streaming services and even rental services and just become unfindable, I’m glad there are people out there keeping independent collections.

mmanfrin• 2 years ago

I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating > 6 and a good number of votes

You do not have all movies >6 with a bunch of votes on just 16TB, unless the cutoff is like 100k+ votes and you're downloading 1080p max. I have a 73TB server at 99% capacity right now and I hardly have a movie library.

pa7ch• 2 years ago

1080p is the way to go IMO

LeonenTheDK• 2 years ago

That's kind of what I'm thinking, after getting my 4k HDR TV I was blown away by the filesizes needed to make full use of it.

Just the most popular stuff and limited to 1080p or less though... Yeah 16Tb is pushing it.

globular-toast4• 2 years ago

Instead of telling someone they're wrong you could just assume they mean 1080p. If we're talking 1080p encodes you can totally do it in that size. If you're using 73TB for barely a collection you're just wasting space.

me551ah2• 2 years ago

Yep, most of the movies are 1080p h265. I run ffmpeg scripts to auto convert h264 to hevc and generate smaller files.

I do have 4K rips for movies I like and new movies, but by default download 1080p hevc only. I stay away from remuxes

hankhill123• 2 years ago

I use https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay for this purpose.

the advantage of that is that it's all on-demand. no need to set up sonarr/radarr. Just set up a bunch of trackers to search from and pick from them on demand.

Cyph0n4• 2 years ago

It’s quite amazing how much you can do with a working self-hosted setup and a decent amount of storage. The open source community around self-hosted services is stronger than ever.

A few of my favorite lesser known self-hosted projects are Audiobookshelf, Komga (comic/manga reader), and Kavita (ebook/comic/manga reader).

sebazzz3• 2 years ago

Radar and Sonarr here with Overseerr as an UI for my wife. Bazarr for subs, jackett as a client for torrent sites, unpackerr for unpacking zips. Good old Transmission as download client.

ashconnor4• 2 years ago

It's a shame unpackerr is needed. BitTorrent works better on large uncompressed files.

drexlspivey• 2 years ago

Why do you need a special program to unpack rars? I just use qbittorrent and put this command in the "run external program on torrent finished" box: 7z x "%F/*.rar" -o"%F/"

elAhmo• 2 years ago

Stremio with Torrentio plugin functions exactly the same as Popcorn Time and runs on TVs

Jonovono2• 2 years ago

Real Debrid is worth the price if you want a better experience.

GaryNumanVevo• 2 years ago

I have a similar setup (32TB NAS + Jellyfin). I use three different Radarr instances (1080p/4k/Anime). Every movie that I've liked on LetterBoxd gets downloaded automatically in 1080p / 4k (1080p for streaming outside my home). Jellyseer allows me to give access to friends and they're able to request stuff easily that's not on streaming. I also use Infuse on AppleTV which has support for Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision. Absolutely amazing once you get it setup, I've been slowly rebuilding my blu-ray collection digitally too.

spants• 2 years ago

you use real-debrid and plex and not plex-debrid? https://github.com/itsToggle/plex_debrid

Downloading movies is for the stone age!.

exadeci• 2 years ago

Plex shares are harder to find now but on Discord you can find servers with 100s of TB of movies and TV show to stream straight from your devices with no work and just a small monthly payment

recursive3• 2 years ago

Is there a glossary of terminology anywhere? I think popcorn time is some kind of application for watching movies, but beyond that, I don't understand many of the comments in this story. I was into torrents 20 years ago, but I have not kept up with it.

Currently, I get my movies from Netflix, and nowhere else, and I'm basically happy with that. Judging from internet comments, I might be the only one.

squeaky-clean2• 2 years ago

It's a torrent client that is able to download the torrent file sequentially, rather than in random chunks. Meaning you can stream a movie torrent instead of the old-fashioned method of needing to wait for the entire thing to download before you can watch. It's a combination torrent client and media player.

shpx• 2 years ago

It also shows you a list of movies, shows and anime in the app and lets you search for one without having to go to a separate website.

ogurechny4• 2 years ago

Any decent torrent client (apart from Transmission?) has had sequential downloading for years. It was never a unique feature of those idiot-oriented wrappers.

dylan60414• 2 years ago

I get my movies from Netflix, and nowhere else, and I'm basically happy with that

Mr. Hastings, is that you? The Netflix library has become so small and full of crap, that I find it hard to honestly accept that anyone could be satisfied with that alone.

andsoitis3• 2 years ago

The Netflix library has become so small and full of crap, that I find it hard to honestly accept that anyone could be satisfied with that alone.

260 million paying households around the world disagree. In last quarter alone, 13 million new households started subscribing.

https://apnews.com/article/netflix-fourth-quarter-results-vi...

recursive3• 2 years ago

I exist, and I'm not paid by Netflix. You learn something new every day.

ogurechny4• 2 years ago

There is a giant market for one-click piracy solutions for the technologically illiterate. It's actually the same market on which legal services operate. Their competitors are streaming sites, various pay-to-pirate services that promise to do your work for you, and applications that combine torrents coming from popular catalogues with covers and descriptions from general purpose services into a nice interface. Choose a movie, and downloading starts in the background without the need to figure anything out. The latest and greatest Hollywood hits always have peers, and the rest does not really interest the general public.

Because the users self-select for laziness and blind trust, it's a perfect feeding ground for malware operators, just like “system optimizer” and “system cleaner” applications are. Clients like “Zona” or “MediaGet” can sometimes be seen in torrent peer lists, and it's a common joke among tech support crowd that if one of those is installed, for some reason, the system always has malware to clean. Of course, the only “official” version may not display any unwanted behavior — at least initially — but there are 50 other sites in the search results with totally not suspicious installers.

The other thing is there is no “deep learning” here. Authors do not scan ALL the available torrents and figure out which is which, they simply use metadata filled in by users in catalogues. Those are the same torrents anyone can find and download.

freefaler• 2 years ago

Strem.io + plugins + real-debrid.com

beats the old and the new popcorn time

Jonovono2• 2 years ago

Amen. Keep spreading the gospel. This is what we all imagined the world of online streaming would actually be like.

xtracto• 2 years ago

I use stremio with some torrent plugin. I've read about debrid , but don't really get it's advantage. Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?

plastic_bag• 2 years ago

Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?

It's not just that. Streaming from an proper server always beats streaming from P2P connections. The former is much faster to stream, forward, and rewind, making the whole streaming experience better. Especially when watching 4K content or old movies with relatively less number of seeders.

swat535• 2 years ago

Additionally you can use Infuse if you are in Apple ecosystem and use their AppleTV app to watch everything on your TV! Just setup Infuse with Real Debrid as WebDAV and you're set, you can even get the subtitles downloaded!

no_time• 2 years ago

Mixed feelings about this. I do not wish for it to be shut down again, but I hope people realize that every popcorn time user is one less qbitorrent user that accidentally leaves their client open in the background.

I have a theory that most seeding is done by people who are unaware they are doing it or don't even know what it is. Tech like webtorrents, clients for portable devices and this are harmful to the network in the long term.

palata• 2 years ago

Unless they bring new users that would not normally use torrent and that happen to participate while they watch their movie?

diimdeep• 2 years ago

    cloc Popcorn-Time.app/ 
       16195 text files.
       11358 unique files.                                          
        5044 files ignored.
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Language                             files          blank        comment           code
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    JavaScript                            6015         106427         177209         638087
    JSON                                   947             36              0         214754
    Markdown                               964          42676            224         101002
    YAML                                     9             19             20          97485
    CSS                                     46           6016            985          88269
    SVG                                   2557              0             17          43048
    TypeScript                             581           2481          78577          37547

Amazing

atif089• 2 years ago

Popcorn Time app takes ages to load even on my 5600X. It is one of those apps which I think should definitely move to Bun

ijhuygft776• 2 years ago

Wow, the Windows version has a lot of files... 18,450.

(https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases...).

masteruvpuppetz• 2 years ago

The only question left to ask is… anyone want to give me view access to their movie tv server?

Popcorn Time 0.5.0

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