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Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

116 points by ivshti 11y ago

Fogest 11y ago
It looks quite nice, but I am wondering if this is like a popcorn time kinda thing where I can stream any show that may not even be on my harddrive, or if this is a product meant for indexing my harddrive and streaming it to any device like Plex?
- ivshti 11y ago
  Both, depending on what add-ons you have activated. When you don't have any activated, it relies on local indexing. On the other hand, the default add-ons suggest to you links to iTunes/Netflix/etc. There are third-party add-ons that use torrents, those can be shown in the product if they are popular in your area.
- mckie41 11y ago
  yes you can steam any tv show or movie without it being on you HDD to be honest its hell of a lot better than popcorntime and safer as it uses add-on's for the torrents and if the movie or tv show you want is not their simply drag the magnet link into stremio :-) and the team on facebook are very responsive if you ever need help or have any questions :-)
  - Fogest 11y ago
    And from the sounds of this peer to peer networking is being used. Does that mean that when I use the program I am acting as a peer? Or did I misread this?
T3RMINATED 11y ago
Is it legal? If not i will have to report it.
lcfcjs1 11y ago
Thanks for sharing! Looks interesting, does this work with netflix?
techaddict009 11y ago
Is it totally legal?
- mckie41 11y ago
  in a way yes as its using an add-on called JC torrents to get all the tv shows and movies on the app the app it self dose not make any add-on's and its open sourced if you want to have a look and you can ask the devs questions on facebook the are very responsive :-)
  - LargeCompanies 11y ago
    But, your app, your marketing on the site(the movie & tv show images of copyright content) and comments here is called contributory infringement. https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues. So, sorry you are making yourself liable by trying to do a work around what popcorn time was doing, as well your marketing on the site and the comments you leave here and elsewhere on the iNet makes you culpable no matter what country your in. Overall your site looks awesome and I miss popcorn time and happy to see another similar app pop up. No doubt there will be tons more similar apps after yours gets shut down by the copyright dummies; dummies because they need to change their game/business model. Make the social experience of going to a movie theater something that makes that experience piracy proof and let piracy run rampant but they make money from it somehow. Let all of us hackers create amazing innovation around their content and they buy/own the best inventions... not sure, but they need to do something different if they are concerned about piracy. Though Star Wars did just make a half a billion dollars in one weekend and other films did similarly this year too, so they aren't suffering!
    - ivshti 11y ago
      Keep in mind mckie41 is a user, not part of the team :) Also, have you checked out the app from the US/UK/anywhere where Netflix is supported? Using movie/series marketing materials to promote links to Netflix, Hulu and iTunes - I don't think that's infringement in any way. Also, we cannot control what OTHER add-ons appear in the app. If we receive complains we'd be happy to stop them. We're trying to build the next Plex, not the next Popcorn Time. Otherwise good points about the industry, but that's not our war to fight :)
coin 11y ago
What's with disabling pinch zoom on mobile devices?
- noxToken 11y ago
  Site design probably did not take mobile zoom into consideration, so it's to prevent reflow and layout issues. Granted, reflow issues are usually preferred over the inability to see/read something.
SatoshiRoberts 11y ago
Is there a place to view all the add ons?
- ivshti 11y ago
  All are loaded by default in the Settings panel
subway 11y ago
Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?
- TheCoreh 11y ago
  I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse) a weird install script for them to `curl | sh`. OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources. Windows is a mess under the hood with all the registry fiddling an installer has to do, but there are dozens of existing alternatives out there already, both free and commercial which abstract that away.
  - lamby 11y ago
    > OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources. It surely trades this with a bunch of other problems, such as excessive embedding of third-party code copies. (This is particularly problematic for video decoder code given the number of exploits in this area.)
  - yareally 11y ago
    > ...I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve Checkinstall makes building debs pretty easy if you're using make to build the app. https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing_packages_from_source_code_with_checkinstall https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing...
    - brbsix 11y ago
      checkinstall installs the software in order to build the .deb, so it is sort of dangerous in that regard. It would not keep your home dir safe. I would recommend running it in a virtual machine. Building .debs is not all that difficult, just sort of an archaic and not particularly well-documented process. fpm (Ruby Gem) is worth looking into if you want a quick'n'dirty way to create packages.
matthewbauer 11y ago
This reminds me a lot of Boxee. It basically did what it looks like Stremio did- aggregates video content from multiple streaming services. Maybe this will be more popular though because we definitely have more streaming options than we did back in 2008. But why is it a desktop app? It looks like most of the content is available on the web. I think I'd rather just use that than download some app like this.
xfalcox 11y ago
Are you planning to get the Android version compatible with Android TV? I bought an amazon fire TV for my dad, who can't handle tech very well, and a running streamio with subtitles working would be the greatest Christmas gift ever for a movie aficionado.
plodder 11y ago
Windows version : virus alert reported. Artemis!F9DDCC2E5FB8
seivan 11y ago
I wonder if the iOS app is made with React Native. It's scroll performance is horrible. iPhone 5, iOS 9.
classycoder 11y ago
Stremio3.4.5.linux/Stremio-runtime: cannot execute binary file waste of my time. where is the 32bit release ?
classycoder 11y ago
this release is for 64bit assholes, i need 32bit

116 points by ivshti 11y ago

It looks quite nice, but I am wondering if this is like a popcorn time kinda thing where I can stream any show that may not even be on my harddrive, or if this is a product meant for indexing my harddrive and streaming it to any device like Plex?

ivshti 11y ago
Both, depending on what add-ons you have activated. When you don't have any activated, it relies on local indexing. On the other hand, the default add-ons suggest to you links to iTunes/Netflix/etc. There are third-party add-ons that use torrents, those can be shown in the product if they are popular in your area.
mckie41 11y ago
yes you can steam any tv show or movie without it being on you HDD to be honest its hell of a lot better than popcorntime and safer as it uses add-on's for the torrents and if the movie or tv show you want is not their simply drag the magnet link into stremio :-) and the team on facebook are very responsive if you ever need help or have any questions :-)
- Fogest 11y ago
  And from the sounds of this peer to peer networking is being used. Does that mean that when I use the program I am acting as a peer? Or did I misread this?

T3RMINATED 11y ago

Is it legal? If not i will have to report it.

lcfcjs1 11y ago

Thanks for sharing! Looks interesting, does this work with netflix?

techaddict009 11y ago

Is it totally legal?

mckie41 11y ago
in a way yes as its using an add-on called JC torrents to get all the tv shows and movies on the app the app it self dose not make any add-on's and its open sourced if you want to have a look and you can ask the devs questions on facebook the are very responsive :-)
- LargeCompanies 11y ago
  But, your app, your marketing on the site(the movie & tv show images of copyright content) and comments here is called contributory infringement. https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues. So, sorry you are making yourself liable by trying to do a work around what popcorn time was doing, as well your marketing on the site and the comments you leave here and elsewhere on the iNet makes you culpable no matter what country your in. Overall your site looks awesome and I miss popcorn time and happy to see another similar app pop up. No doubt there will be tons more similar apps after yours gets shut down by the copyright dummies; dummies because they need to change their game/business model. Make the social experience of going to a movie theater something that makes that experience piracy proof and let piracy run rampant but they make money from it somehow. Let all of us hackers create amazing innovation around their content and they buy/own the best inventions... not sure, but they need to do something different if they are concerned about piracy. Though Star Wars did just make a half a billion dollars in one weekend and other films did similarly this year too, so they aren't suffering!
  - ivshti 11y ago
    Keep in mind mckie41 is a user, not part of the team :) Also, have you checked out the app from the US/UK/anywhere where Netflix is supported? Using movie/series marketing materials to promote links to Netflix, Hulu and iTunes - I don't think that's infringement in any way. Also, we cannot control what OTHER add-ons appear in the app. If we receive complains we'd be happy to stop them. We're trying to build the next Plex, not the next Popcorn Time. Otherwise good points about the industry, but that's not our war to fight :)

coin 11y ago

What's with disabling pinch zoom on mobile devices?

noxToken 11y ago
Site design probably did not take mobile zoom into consideration, so it's to prevent reflow and layout issues. Granted, reflow issues are usually preferred over the inability to see/read something.

SatoshiRoberts 11y ago

Is there a place to view all the add ons?

ivshti 11y ago
All are loaded by default in the Settings panel

subway 11y ago

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

TheCoreh 11y ago
I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse) a weird install script for them to `curl | sh`. OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources. Windows is a mess under the hood with all the registry fiddling an installer has to do, but there are dozens of existing alternatives out there already, both free and commercial which abstract that away.
- lamby 11y ago
  > OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources. It surely trades this with a bunch of other problems, such as excessive embedding of third-party code copies. (This is particularly problematic for video decoder code given the number of exploits in this area.)
- yareally 11y ago
  > ...I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve Checkinstall makes building debs pretty easy if you're using make to build the app. https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing_packages_from_source_code_with_checkinstall https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing...
  - brbsix 11y ago
    checkinstall installs the software in order to build the .deb, so it is sort of dangerous in that regard. It would not keep your home dir safe. I would recommend running it in a virtual machine. Building .debs is not all that difficult, just sort of an archaic and not particularly well-documented process. fpm (Ruby Gem) is worth looking into if you want a quick'n'dirty way to create packages.

matthewbauer 11y ago

This reminds me a lot of Boxee. It basically did what it looks like Stremio did- aggregates video content from multiple streaming services. Maybe this will be more popular though because we definitely have more streaming options than we did back in 2008. But why is it a desktop app? It looks like most of the content is available on the web. I think I'd rather just use that than download some app like this.

xfalcox 11y ago

Are you planning to get the Android version compatible with Android TV? I bought an amazon fire TV for my dad, who can't handle tech very well, and a running streamio with subtitles working would be the greatest Christmas gift ever for a movie aficionado.

plodder 11y ago

Windows version : virus alert reported. Artemis!F9DDCC2E5FB8

seivan 11y ago

I wonder if the iOS app is made with React Native. It's scroll performance is horrible. iPhone 5, iOS 9.

classycoder 11y ago

Stremio3.4.5.linux/Stremio-runtime: cannot execute binary file waste of my time. where is the 32bit release ?

classycoder 11y ago

this release is for 64bit assholes, i need 32bit