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  • RandomLegend@kbin.socialtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Can usenet be used for free?
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    1 year ago

    Not as far as i know. Root of this is that usenet files are usually obfuscated. Means that they are encrypted and their filenames are pure gibberish.

    You then visist a “newsgroup” which is a forum or some list on the internet. There are posts for everything you want; Movies, shows, games, etc.
    Those posts will give you a .nzb file. This is basically just a textfile that has the decryption password and the exact path if you will, for that specific file.

    Example: You want to download John Wick 4. You find a post for that on some forum. You get the .nzb file. You throw this .nzb file into your usenet downloader (sabNZBd for example). This downloader takes the file, goes to your usenet provider (the actual server that hosts files) and finds the file for John Wick 4. This file might be called 132907as097fd192070a9sd709asdgsd90g709123907 and is fragmented into 400 .zip files, each with their own gibberish name.

    But your downloader knows all the files that belong to each other because of that .nzb file.

    Then they all get downloaded, unpacked together and you have your file.

    Now this would make it very very hard to actually “stream” directly from usenet. sabNZBd can actually unpack the files while you download them, but i don’t know if they are in correct order and if it could produce a streamable videofile.

    I heard of a website that claimed it could stream directly from usenet, but i never looked into it and it didn’t gain any popularity as it had some other severe issues as far as i know.

    If you want a streaming like experience via Usenet, you have to go the Plex/Jellyfin + Overseerr/Ombi/Jellyseerr + Radarr&Sonarr route. It’s a suite of applications that will automate the process of finding, downloading and organizing your movies & shows. Overseerr/Ombi/Jellyseerr provide you the catalog where you can pick what you want to watch. They will push that interaction to Radarr&Sonarr. They are responsible for actually searching through the usenet forums you configured and find the correct movie / show you want from there. They will then push that to your downloader (sabNZBd for example again) and once it’s downloaded they will organize it and tell Jellyfin or Plex that it’s available. Jellyfin & Plex are the final streaming services that run locally on your hardware and can be accessed on your network. They are beautiful and extremely capable streaming applications that handle metadata automatically.

    It’s quite a complicated and cumbersome process to set it all up properly. But once it’s done you never have to touch it again (unless something breaks lol) and you will have a fully automated media server that will get you whatever you want in whatever quality / language profile you want.

    And since usenet is blazing fast, depending on your internet connection, you can watch a movie within 20~30 minutes after “requesting” it (requesting is the process of telling the aforementioned Overseerr/Ombi/Jellyseerr that you want John Wick 4 for example).

    So yeah, sorry for that long and probably unasked explamation but thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

  • RandomLegend@kbin.socialtoHaupteingang@feddit.de•Wie könnt ihr so ohne Reddit zurecht?
    4·
    1 year ago

    bin da ganz bei dir. Auch die findbarkeit via Google etc. ist für mich immer noch ein wichtiger faktor.

    Vollkommen egal wonach du suchst, du wirst in 99% der Fällen einen oder mehrere Redditposts finden die das Thema behandeln…Ganz besonders beim Thema Technik und Problemlösung. Ich finde jetzt immernoch sehr viele Redditposts die genau meine frage beinhalten…nur um dann festzustellen dass der sub auf privat ist.