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    4 years ago

    VLC media player (I’m assuming that this was the application you used)

    Nope I was talking about playing medias using Kodi - I never tried to play something on that raspberry using someting else, also because it was running on LibreELEC and I’m not sure there’s a way to use it as a desktop os

    I don’t know if the issue is with Kodi, or if it is from a possible bottleneck from reading data from the external drives, and going through a hub

    The bottleneck was most likely the hardware being not really meant to be a media server. Playing x265-encoded videos was pretty laggish, but their size is generally smaller than the same exact file but encoded in x264 (which played fine)

    In perspective though, my VPN subscription is €5, which I need to access torrent sites, however I’m happy paying that, even if it does add up to hundreds over years. I hope I never sink in another £5.99, especially post-“Cuties”

    This is an interesting perspective, I never thought about that in this way. I’m too paying a subscription to a vpn just so I can torrent behind a vpn, I’m basically paying a monthly bill to watch whatever I can torrent lol

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        I don’t know what a seedbox is :thinking face: I will look it up

        My current torrent setup is a raspberry pi with qbittorrent installed and a 1TB drive where to store ongoing and completed downloads. The VPN subscriptions is 4€/month

        Edit: one thing I love about my current setup is that I’m running a Telegram bot on the raspberry that notifies me when a torrent finishes to download, it also allows me to remotely add torrent files/magnets just by sending the file/url, and quite many other stuff. I mostly use it to keep an eye on the downloads queue since from mobile it isn’t as cumbersome as a web UI and I can use it from any device. I wonder if it would be possible to run it on a seedbox. As far as I’ve been able to see, most seedbox use Deluge as torrent client, which means I would have to rewrite it entirely to use its API. Hmmm. I will think if it’s worth the effort

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          I imagine you could make it work on Deluge and/or also there must be a Seedbox that allows qBittorrent.