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Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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?
Sure it needs to download. But i got 10 fibers á 1gbit bundled and a 10gb home network and a good and fast server. So after hitting “search” it’ll take around a minute til it’s leeched, unpacked, sorted and imported into emby. The last part actually take the longest.
But speed isn’t really the point, it’s hit-search-wait-watch. The wait part depends on you.
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.
If i watch stuff from the outside on my phone,i really don’t care for quality. Same when I’m at home watching some quick series. For “serious” stuff it takes a while longer. Need to wait some good more minutes for a bd-remux.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month 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 month ago
I do know. I just didn’t want to list everything, as those who’d do that, know that. And there is no “tracker” for usenet. Usenet is probably older than you 😁
Reencoding (if necessary) is done on the fly by the emvy-server.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month 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 month ago
Well my internet costs money too. Netflix would be 20 bucks and i have 30% of what muricans have. My usenet is 5 bucks a month, the indexers (2 atm) are like 25 a year. So i would still have money left for a nice tea 😁
And netflix wouldn’t be enough. If i had all providers i want, it’ll be >100 moneyz a month. That’s ridiculous. And probably still missing something
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 month 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 month ago
Nonsense. Torrents depends on seeders. Usenet is always (depending on the provider) max-speed.
*narrs are basically just interfaces for torrents and/or nzbs. And unless I’m into some very specific niche-stuff that requires a private tracker, why should one use torrents? Their only upside is that they’re totally free.