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watching pirated streaming sucks compared to OG torrent way (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by sawyer@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Tell that the mpv player that is unable to playback non-srt subtitles.

My issues with playback are very limited and it's usually just the playback device that sucks, can't play the codec or not/bad configured HWA.
For example don't encode files to x265 4K if you can't decode or transcode x265 at 4K. My (device) experience is Chromecast w/ GoogleTV (AndroidTV), Android and WebPlay.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

When you say Chromecast, do you mean that you cast the android app to the TV? Because that experience is fine, its the native androidtv app I'm complaining about. And it's not only the player, the android app is able to select the subtitles on the menu before launching the MPV player. In any case yeah, I'll test the performance of the android app casting and just do that.