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Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4
- kkjkj 2y ago[dead]
- brunoqc 2y ago> What is Stremio? > Stremio is a modern media center that gives you the freedom to watch everything you want. https://www.stremio.com https://www.stremio.com
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agoIs it a fork of something? I'm surprised it's coming out of the blue
- azurenumber 2y agoLineage Os, the android custom rom
- OJFord 2y agoI don't know it's not, but it's been around a while, if coming out of the blue it wasn't recent.
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoAccording to TFA it is based on Android TV. So a de-googled LineageOS version of Android TV.
- adl 2y agoI've known and used Stremio for at least 5 years, maybe more.
- kranke155 2y agoit's been around for a long time.
- smcleod 2y agoSeems to be limited to running on Android
- boffinAudio 2y agoNo, it runs on everything.
- smcleod 2y agoOh really! It looked like a linage build.
- jaruba_dev 2y agohere's the downloads page for Stremio: https://www.stremio.com/downloads https://www.stremio.com/downloads
- synicalx 2y agoI've been using Stremio for about a year now and have been very happy with it, if I had an Rpi I'd definitely give this a try.
- h4ch1 2y agoUsed it for 2 weeks, shows, movies kept buffering even though it's supposed to use BitTorrent. Switched back to popcorn time, no issues since.
- roumenguha 2y agoThe ideal setup takes advantage of Real-Debrid or other seedbox services.
- ssl-3 2y agoThe ideal setup takes advantage of Usenet.
- phh 2y agoUsenet is my main source, but I'm not aware of anyone implementing streaming over it? Sounds nightmarish to implement really
- ssl-3 2y ago"Streaming" from Usenet doesn't sound too bad, really, for many things. Just automagically download the RARs and PARs for a good release that make sense to get moving, and then: Get moving. (And keep processing as moving forward happens.) (What makes a "good" release? IDK, but streaming from torrents must be able to be figured out, and outside of torrents nzbget seems to be able to usually figure it pretty quickly from Usenet for me. Neither method is inherently start-to-finish and suitable for "streaming" but that doesn't mean that either of them cannot be made to work. And one of them apparently does work.)
- slowmotiony 2y ago...which somehow also lags and buffers even on a gigabit network.
- spiderice 2y agoI thought popcorn time died a while ago? Is it back?
- schappim 2y agoThey state: "While the Raspberry Pi 5 is fully capable of smooth 4K playback, Raspberry Pi 4 will not be able to play 4K content due to hardware limitations." This likely depends on the codec. The Pi 4’s BCM2711 SoC, unlike the BCM2712 in the Pi 5, has hardware support for H.265 (HEVC) up to 4Kp60. However, the Pi 5 can still support H.265 (HEVC) up to 4Kp60 through software-based decoding, thanks to its more powerful CPU and GPU.
- dividuum 2y agoThat’s incorrect: Both have hardware support for decoding H265 up to 4K. The difference is H264: the Pi4 still has a hardware decoder (up to FullHD) while the Pi5 doesn’t and will use software decoding as it’s more than fast enough. As it is software, there’s no resolution limit.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoDoes this custom lineageOS build (or android in general) use the hardware decoding features? I wouldn't be too surprised either way.
- schappim 2y agoYou’re correct; I was thinking of H.264. The Pi 5 still has a 4Kp60 HEVC decoder.
- shrx 2y agoDo you have any info on why they dropped support for H264 hardware decoding?
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- LeoPanthera 2y agoNever heard of Streamio before, but from the FAQ: > We run non-intrusive ads occassionally (Their typo, not mine.) So it's like Plex, but, with ads in it.
- mplewis 2y agoI do not see any ads in Stremio. I have used it for over a year.
- m463 2y agodoes subliminal qualify as unobtrusive ? :)
- boffinAudio 2y agoThere is no evidence that stremio uses subliminal methods.
- cholantesh 2y agoMore importantly, there's no evidence that subliminal messaging works.
- WithinReason 2y agowow it must be working really well
- boffinAudio 2y agoHey, that ghost peering over your shoulder has a really gnarly smile.
- nilsherzig 2y agoStremio is a Mediacenter thingy. You can provide different video sources using Plugins. People mainly use it for torrenting. It's nice in theory since it allows you to watch basically anything without having to download it first. It will find and download Torrents on demand and start playing them after a small buffer has been built. But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.
- dizhn 2y agoIt's actually a little bit worse in terms of seeding torrents. Stremio (and things like Kodi) shine when you combine them with a torrent caching service like real-debrid. The stream links become direct download links and no torrenting happens at all. All the media in the world and no waiting at all. It works better than any streaming platform.
- hnthx 2y agoAsking for a friend, if you are a Stremio user, how would you easily contribute back to the network ?
- tarruda 2y agoIt has been a long time since I used stremio, but IIRC it used to have a max cache size for torrent plugins. The default setting was something like 10GB, which means older torrents eventually get deleted after you stream a certain amount of other content. I suspect stremio seeds torrents in the cache directory, so if you increase cache size, you can potentially continue seeding torrents for more time after the initial download.
- dlock17 2y agoIt would be cool if this was true, but no, Stremio does not seed cached files. https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/626 https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/626 Somebody made an extension that adds cached torrents to your local qbittorrent instance though, which is a nice alternative. https://github.com/Vance-ng-vn/Stremio-Seeds https://github.com/Vance-ng-vn/Stremio-Seeds Note: I haven't used this, since I use Stremio from a Chromecast.
- aw4y 2y agoI already use Stremio with LineageOS on Raspberry 4, it's android so you can install a lot of apps directly from the store, stremio included.
- alias_neo 2y agoI have no interest in Streamio, but I have really wanted an Android TV OS I can run on commodity hardware for things like Netflix, YouTube et al, I wonder if this might be a suitable solution? My goal really is to have a sleek, up to date TV OS that doesn't rely on me buying a specific TV or replacing it every 5 years when it stops receiving app updates.
- ThatPlayer 2y agoMy issue when I looked into this is that, because of DRM (yay), you cannot easily get full HD video on commodity hardware. For example those Konstakang Android TV Raspberry Pi builds will only get Widevine Level 3, which limits you to 480 or 720p on apps like Netflix. I ended up going with a full Windows Intel N100 mini-PC. Windows because the only way to get 4K Netflix is to either use the Windows app, or Microsoft Edge on Windows. [0] Any Linux would limit me to 720p. And even then others like Max do not support 4K on Windows [1]. I believe Disney+ is the same. Another choice I wasn't aware of when I got my hardware is Kodi running as an app on an official Android box with Widevine Level 1. Kodi is able to use Android's Winevine allowing for full quality 4K playback through plugins for Netflix [2], Max [3], Disney+ [4]. It leaves you reliant on these (open-source) plugin rather than official apps for all the good and bad. [0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931 [1] https://help.max.com/US-en/Answer/Detail/000002523 https://help.max.com/US-en/Answer/Detail/000002523 [2] https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix?tab=readme-ov-file#reference-table-of-high-resolutions https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix?tab=readm... [3] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2024/06/max-kodi-add-on.html https://www.matthuisman.nz/2024/06/max-kodi-add-on.html [4] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/04/disney-plus-kodi-add-on.html https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/04/disney-plus-kodi-add-on.h...
- __jonas 2y agoWhy not just use LineageOS directly?
- alias_neo 2y agoI'm not aware of there being an official Android TV release of Lineage, there's an unofficial one according to XDA. Ideally for something I'll run on my TV, I'll want something likely to continue receiving support. I imagine Streamio is more likely to continue receiving support/updates as long as they're focused on maintaining the platform. If there's an official Lineage Android TV for RPi or x86 that'd of course be ideal.
- mavamaarten 2y agoI wish the app was open source. I have plenty of experience with android and video app development and would love to contribute some features. But alas. As far as their app goes, it's a really good app though. It brings a better experience than most paid alternatives (Netflix, Prime Video, ...)
- Sparkyte 2y agoSo I am kind of opposed to piracy but the novel idea of a peer based CDN has its merit. Imagine an encrypted framework where Netflix operates in a peer to peer communication. It would drastically reduce the overhead a streaming service would require to send content to users. If people are all watching the similar content or opt-in to supporting the network chunks of data could stored across many customer peers to complete the mesh. This would allow high quality content with a reduced amount of latency for delivery. It is why piracy took of during the DSL/Cable era. Networks were not fast and streaming could not work that efficiently so a p2p network alievated the stress allowing viewers/listeners to grab media and be quick about it.
- zozskuh 2y agoSpotify used to run a P2P network to serve music[1], which they seemed to have shut down in 2014[2]. [1] https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.pdf https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-peer-technology-from-its-desktop-client/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-pe...
- tristor 2y agoHonestly, this would be a great efficiency boost if you could figure out how to manage distributed access, even in the existing model. Content servers in the CDN could act like origins/seedboxes, and pieces could be streamed from other clients based on what's currently contained in their content cache or downloaded episodes bucket. I'd love to see Netflix do something like this as long as it was only for non-mobile clients (e.g. Xbox, AppleTV, et al). I don't mind sharing my upstream with others if it helps smooth delivery for myself. You'd think this wouldn't work well, but if done properly it'd be at worst equivalent to the current experience (e.g. your entire stream comes only from the closest content server), but Netflix shows tend to have popularity trends so may actually perform better than the current experience because you might be watching the same show as your neighbor, just 20-30 minutes later, and this reduces load on the content servers and raises the overall throughput availability of the total network.
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- piyuv 2y agoYou have everything in a single app with somewhat nice UX. If/when someone/a company is able to find a solution to the licensing problem and releases this with a good enough price point, privacy will be ‘solved’