Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal

https://github.com/lostb1t/Gelato

could we not bring back popcorn time if it goes over to decentralized github : https://radicle.xyz/

its strange how we can't just build software that then works for ever. The emulation boys got something going but netowkred software unlikley

Is it actually gone? I found official looking sites on a quick Google.

First of all this the ground 0 for everything piracy (and more, generally free stuff) https://fmhy.net/

Here are the recommended film sites https://fmhy.net/video#torrent-sites

I generally download from https://rutracker.org/ (need an account to search not for downloading). They have pretty much everything that you can imagine (not just films) and in proper quality too (BD Remuxes etc). There will be no scene releases here because they add russian/ukrainian dubs and subs to almost all films but that's a small problem.

The other one is Heartive which lists torrents from the DHT network with Magnet links https://heartiveloves.pages.dev/ You just click on the torrent icon in the middle top of the selected film and all the available releases will be listed in plain text. The only downside that you need to be familiar with the release tags

Last but not least https://nyaa.si/ if you have a slight interest in anything japanese from manga to anime to much more

I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video, english audio / japanese audio + english subtitles) and reencode it to h264 mp4 so the files aren't gigantic and are compatible with everything. A bit old-school maybe but it generally works fine for me.

I live in the UK so I'll also sometimes pull stuff from iPlayer, which yt-dlp works perfectly for, and also off youtube

I highly recommend setting up a kodi combo: real-debrid/fen/seren/coco scrapers/tmdb helper with your trakt account/arctic fuse 2 (netflix like skin). It is a complete "stream everything" netflix interface.

It takes quite a while to understand how to set everything up and needs tons of customization (which is also a positive), but reddit is your friend. For example this is a good guide (although bit dated, some info may be older but generally it still fits https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/zzfdtb/allincl... )

I know people also use *arr stack and jellyfin to setup their own library but my problem is that i never /know/ what to watch. With this setup, i just turn it on, get to browse customized/recommended and random lists like in netflix and it streams directly via real-debrid or premiumize

Oh; if you decide to have a dedicated raspberry pi for this thing (so you can use it with tv easilly), use a regular raspbian os or something, do NOT use libreelec. It is trying to be heavily customized, but in the end is just worse, buggy, bad wifi support, slow releases from small team, and unability to manually update packages

for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.

Same, I know how to use a terminal quite well but don’t know the latest best way to “sail the seas” as they say.

For old content I often spin up the old RARBG database.

Too bad it's gone.

answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367384

I'm not sure if you're being facetious and making fun of my saying stream a timestamp instead of stream to a particular time in the video, but if so I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364765 suggested a way.

I just expected you would stream to point X in the stream that would be to the timestamp set to start and then to point y which would be the end. Obviously it would have to be able to figure out how the streamed file would map to time, which I don't know how to do which is why I said I would like a tool that did it other than announcing I made a tool that did it myself.

Of course obviously some tools like yt-dlp etc. have this capability with the --download-sections property but I want something for torrents.

You negotiate the header to find the video length, to then issue http get requests with the offset to the timestamp. Sometimes there’s an API that cuts with ffmpeg and returns the buffer. Sometimes you just need to fetch the raw bytes between offset+0 and offset+n.

the linked Github repo shares the name

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Not that kind of nsfw.

Or use a terminal recorder to generate it:

https://github.com/orangekame3/awesome-terminal-recorder

The emoji everywhere is what does it for me. Emoji on every title. Emoji on every item of a list. The same ones over and over. So much visual noise. They’re used like a deficient visual crutch.

Most boring part of developing is writing docs. I see it as boilerplate. If you don't like it, you're free to open a PR.

Get used to it. Nobody will write readmes by hand. I've always hated it and now I'll just let the LLM write it.

I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS

> Warning! > > If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ.

I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif.

Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN.

One could argue this is a serious bug.

The subject is movies (cough copyrighted), not Linux distros.

This is an important caveat to raise for someone experimenting.

To your point, it's the upload that gets you in trouble in the US (assuming possession is not illegal in itself)

>authoritarian

Copyright is widely adopted even in the most liberal democracies.