sabnzbd can be replaced with nzbdav or similar tools (infinidysk, altmount) if you want to free up storage and stream directly from usenet.

Or, even better, the entire arr stack can be replaced with stremio to just keep everything on-demand instead of curating a library at all.

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Cyph0n 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“Even better” is relative. Some people like having media stored locally instead of relying on torrent streaming availability.

Usenet streaming sounds cool, but with releases being DMCAd so frequently, I don’t see how it would be practical for anything but the most recent content.

Also, I imagine that Stremio without Debrid (or equivalent) is kind of a terrible experience most of the time.

	▲	dawnerd 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I tried it once and it barely worked at all. Plex would just show everything as unavailable. Really awful experience even when it did work.
	▲	jonnyscholes 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you're not worried about black-ish pixels, it's surprisingly reliable.

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steezeburger 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> stremio

Is this the latest rendition of Popcorn Time?

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Cyph0n 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep basically. The real magic is when you combine it with a Debrid service, which essentially puts a cache in front of torrents. If the torrent has been downloaded before, you get a direct hosted stream instead of having to stream your movie from active seeders (i.e. buffering hell).

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steezeburger 12 hours ago | parent [-]

That sounds slick. I'll have to check it out!

Where does that hosted stream live? I'll have to peep their docs. Sounds interesting

	▲	LaurensBER 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A debrid service is a paid hosted cache so I guess it usually lives on wherever they can source cheap storage and disk cache ;) the original source is the torrent. I have never had any issues with the speed though and I regularly stream 50+ GB files.