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Normally I don't have much time to watch movies, and for the occasional one Netflix is good enough. But once a coupple of years there is a specific one I want to see which is not on Netflix.

Normally I can find it on ThePirateBay, but sometimes it's offline.

So my question is, how to get a movie like "Sing 2" in a easy way like I used on TPB now in 2023.

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you wanna go really casual, there's sites like https://movie-web.app which will let you stream most movies in decent quality.

[–] tun@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hdtoday.cc bflix.gg fmovies.to

What I learnt the other day from this community.

[–] Caravaggio@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This. You'd be surprised how much good stuff you can find on those and similar services. Once I learned about them, I practically stopped torrenting.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

The quality is terrible, though. All of these sites rely on the same bitrate starved YTS rips. It's why torrenting remains popular for people who care about presentation, because you have so many more options than just the absolute bare minimum.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

And how ass the buffering can be at times too. I've switched to stremio for the family, and torrent movies I want to see offline.

[–] tun@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It is a hosted version of open source movie-web app

https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This is stupidly easy, says someone who likes to watch quick and easy stuff with Stremio and Torrential.

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago
[–] mister_monster@monero.town 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use torrents-csv https://torrents-csv.ml/ and find the movie I want and download it. I'm like you, I hardly watch movies, this is the most seamless way for me to do it.

[–] kek@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would recommend Stremio with Torrentio plug-in, works great on Google TV

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once set up, it's the laziest way to watch something. Torrentio does have an issue finding torrents for specials and other extra video content.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With realdebrid it's even better :) But yes special content is hard to find, I still have to revert back to usenet for some content.

[–] bdp1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one find stuff on usenet?

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

I've got a lifetime account at nzbgeek. There are free sites as well, but most of them don't have an API. I've automated it all with sonarr/radarr and nzbget.

[–] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yts . mx

everything is organised great

no cam bullshit, everything is bluray or webrip

i think movies there are a bit compressed, but personally i dont even notice it

[–] Apeeksiht@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago

a better alternative for new movies is psa. wf

their quality is exceptional with small size.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • I love yts because of the small sizes. I don't care about remuxes like the data hoarders in this community.
[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fair enough if you have no standards but don't pretend it's a choice between YTS and remuxes with nothing in-between. There is a very noticeable increase in quality just going from YTS to anything slightly larger.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, no. I'm not ignoring the other options, just wanted to make a clear example, as bad as it was haha. I just like small sizes since quality isn't the highest priority of mine, just like how I love FLACs and cannot deal with 320mp3.

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[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use torrent galaxy, that seems to work pretty well.

Qbittorent to get the thing you want. Recommended to get a VPN while doing so.

Dump the file into a flash drive and plug into a TV. Or setup a shared network drive. Or set up a Plex server with a basic Music/TV/Movie folder structure , have Plex scan it, and stream like your other streaming apps.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 7 points 1 year ago

Once I have downloaded it I can play it in VLC on my computer and choose the cromecast as the renderer which works great, the only thing not working are the subtitles.

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] midas@ymmel.nl 4 points 1 year ago

This thread has been the first time I've been downvoted for a good faith comment I made lol

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

In my country torrent sites are blocked, so I use a search plugin for qBittorrent to find Linux ISOs. I don't quite remember which one I use or how I installed, but it was quite simple. Google is your friend.

[–] 100794@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Why in the ass would you need a plugin for downloading Linus ISOs which are free and non-illegal

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[–] nonearther@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you've an option to install android apps, then OnStream is a good option.

Second option is HDO.

They generally have 1080p videos, but can also have CAM prints.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a Chromecast 4k with Google TV which is android. So theoretically I might be able to install it. But I don't need it very often. And to be honest on the 4k TV if possible I'd rather watch in 4k if possible. And it seems that with torrents often you can find a 4k version.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you don't need to download it, there's himovies.sx. There used to be option to download, but maybe they had some issues with that.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Na, I'd rather watch it on the TV so I guess the easiest option is to download it.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OK, I checked it for you. In Firefox you can open inspector and then head to Network tab and there get the .m3u8 playlist URL. I'd recommend to check in VLC if it works. If playing it in VLC is all you need, good.

Another option is to download it using youtube-dl. I tried it and it started the download, so that will probably work too.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 1 year ago

Ah nice, didn't realize yt-dlp would also work on other websites. But now I'm only 8 minutes away from the 4k version so I'll use that one this time.

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[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the mega thread is a good place to start, but have checked out x1337 for movies

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually I was trying to search for something in the archive but the search is quite bad it seems. Also I don't see a mega thread.

[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally in the pic, on the right, under the wiki (under the cartoon of the pirate)

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah thanks, somehow I thought it'd be a pinned post.

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

It is a pinned post, it probably just didn't get federated to your instance.

[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

try not to use new in the sorting, activ works for me, but this would be the direct link https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/62225

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