reencoding is not required in advance, it happens on the fly if needed.
download still needs to be completed first usually, but you can save a lot of time if you compromise in quality.
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Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoDoesn’t this solution require downloading the file, reencoding and then it’s available to watch? How do you only need one minute to start watching?
example@reddthat.com 1 year ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Doesn’t sound to me like they actually understand what they’re talking about. Sonarr and Radarr both use trackers to download files from either torrents or usenet. Emby is a media server that displays the downloaded files (like netflix). You don’t typically have to reencode what you download.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
There is a provider with Usenet which serves the same purpose (and costs money so there’s a trade off). Radarr and Sonarr are not finding the content for you. It’s coming from whatever service you are using.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Right but you still wait for however long the file needs to download. Normally quite a bit more than 1 minute. That’s what got me confused about this almost streaming like experience that I’m missing out on.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Yeah that part of their comment was also misleading. Basically they’re saying Radarr/Sonarr are better than torrents but really they’re just a fancy front end. If something downloads fast on them it will go just as fast in whatever torrent client you use. You’ll just have to take a couple more steps to play it.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 year ago