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RIP fmovies. Long live sudo

fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added “FBI” up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don’t understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

x4740N ,

Use stremio instead with a vpn active

I still prefer to download movies and TV shows but I currently stream anime from torrents with it and its better quality than the streaming sites

TwinTusks ,
@TwinTusks@bitforged.space avatar

I love stremio, however, it does not seed.

TimewornTraveler ,

looks awesome. gonna have to search for a URL

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

docs.undi.rest/instances

aStonedSanta ,

VPN recommended or?

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

You shouldn’t need a VPN to access sudo lol instances since the connection is encrypted. Your ISP has no way of telling what you’re watching so long as your browser always accesses https vs http.

That said, I’ve heard wonderful things about Mullivad.

aStonedSanta ,

Awesome. Thank you for the response. 💜

No1 ,
@No1@aussie.zone avatar

Without a VPN, your ISP will have some level of meta data. It may be as little as you did a DNS lookup of a pirate site and downloaded 2.14GB of data from that site.

Is that illegal? Depends on what country/state you are in.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

fmovies.llc is still up???

Flyberius ,
@Flyberius@hexbear.net avatar

Does sudo flix work like stremio with torrentio? I.e. I just type what I want and get a list of pirate sources to watch directly?

funkajunk ,
@funkajunk@lemm.ee avatar

Yeah, but not as good. RealDebrid basically acts as a CDN for torrents, they’re serving you the files they’ve already downloaded directly to you.

From what I can tell, sudo flix is streaming torrents from the seeders, so you are reliant on there being enough seeders with decent upload speeds.

Somebody feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Flyberius , (edited )
@Flyberius@hexbear.net avatar

First time seeing debrid. Looks interesting. Is it a paid service? When looking for an API key I’m seeing multiple places I can get one but they all require a login/subscription. The real debrid link is giving me a 403, though I am connecting from China over a VPN which may explain it.

partmussels ,

Yes, it’s a paid service. It’s about 3 or 4 euro per month. I tried it once because I was annoyed by the lack of seeders and buffering in stremio and I’ve never looked back since. It requires a bit of setup, but when that’s done you’re good to go.

x4740N ,

With stremio I can copy the strem link to potplayer and potplayer will buffer a good chunk of strem more than stremio’s default player does

theshatterstone54 ,

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Just found this lol. They killed one and 2 sprung in its place.

halvar , (edited )

This just reminded me of movie-web which looked very similar to this… Anyone know something?

priapus ,

movie-web is open source, anyone can host it

FMEEE ,

Sudo-flix is a fork of Movie-web

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

“The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”

PiJiNWiNg ,

Love this

MerchantsOfMisery ,

I just pirate whole seasons and then burn them to blu- ray for long term storage/old time’s sake. I love having my media compartmentalized on discs.

SaltySalamander ,

I prefer having them instantly accessible from my truenas server. Plex is a godsend.

gears ,

Use jellyfin

SaltySalamander ,

I will if Plex ever stops doing what I need it to. As it stands, it works perfectly fine so I see no reason to switch.

Policeshootout ,

I use an android device and my NAS is a Synology ds923. Jellyfin wasn’t nearly as smooth an experience for me as Plex was. I’m willing to switch to FOSS but it doesn’t seem as good yet…

MerchantsOfMisery ,

I just use my PC for movies + a projector that’s plugged in, so I like keeping it really simple and avoiding stuff like Plex.

SaltySalamander ,

I like being able to access it anywhere, on (most) any device of my choosing.

MerchantsOfMisery ,

I find I just end up watching too much media if it’s too accessible like that. With discs + computer + projector, it’s easier for me to have dedicated media time without it bleeding into other things I should be doing.

cyberpunk007 ,

Sounds like we have the same setup.

MonkderVierte ,

I just use ani-cli.

1boiledpotato ,

And lobster for regular movies and tv shows

theshatterstone54 ,

Can you give us more info about this one? I can’t seem to find it

1boiledpotato ,

Here you go

DieserTypMatthias , (edited )
@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml avatar

I just use Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission, and Jellyfin to get this stuff

Blackout ,
@Blackout@kbin.run avatar

Losing fmovies wasn't the bad thing as there are dozens of clones. It's the hosting services that really took a hit. The reliable ones have been down for a while. The ones left buffer much slower and can't handle peak times as well. Those years with fmovies really felt like the golden age of piracy.

Dyskolos ,

Dude, there is the golden age I’ve waited 20yrs for.

Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you’re set. Never worry again.

RamblingPanda ,

I’d never pirate myself, obviously, but a friend in a restrictive country is interested in this. Is there an “easy to get started” guide for him?

Dyskolos , (edited )

I would pay legit services. But to see it all i would need multiple services with multiple apps, half of which wouldn’t run on my rooted devices. So fuck them.

Sadly no. Not that i know. But once it’s setup it basically runs forever without tinkering. Impressive for open-source. Could name the software and/or services that are helpful.

RamblingPanda ,

The first paragraph hits so hard. “That show is with this service now, but only the last season. If you want to each watch all of them you’ll have to get three subscriptions”

Fuck off…

What’ll be the min spec for the setup? Can it be run from a pi 4, for example?

Thanks 💖

Dyskolos , (edited )

As you’re obviously no american, you also know that even if you’d pay netflix (for the FULL price i might add) you only get a fraction of what they got and not a penny discount for it. Sorry, but no. If you want my money, OFFER ME SOMETHING. Or discount me. That is just robbery.

So, you at least need a server for the whole work. A pi could do it, although you might not expect stellar performance off of it, but it would get the job done I assume. Except maybe live transcoding if that’s necessary (like watching 4k uhd content on a 720p phone or so).

So min-spec would be the combined min-spec for all services. As they probably also run on linux (i use win-20xx-server) it really should do.

You’d need:

  • The **nars you’d want (radarr=movies, sonarr=series, bazarr=subs, lidarr=music etc. and there’s even one for porn lol)
  • a downloader, either usenet (prefered for speed and comfyness) or torrent. So SabNZBd or qtorrent or whatever
  • If usenet, then you’d need a usenet-account (use one with the highest retention (backlog) like eweka.nl (if you wait for black friday or so, they usually have BIG discounts) and probably an indexer (the search-engine kinda). Like 10 bucks a year if you pay only yearly or like 30 lifetime, depends on service. I’d advise for nzbgeek, they’re cheap and nearly 100% net a result. You could also go for free ones, but they’re always very limited. Probably more than enough for 1-2 movies a week or so. sucks if you want a series with 400 episodes :-)

And of couse:

  • a media-server. Like Plex or Emby. I personally love emby, i even pay them just because (and for some minor benefits). You could also go for the free jellyfin, but it’s more hassle to setup and i didn’t get it to work reliably (and i’m a fucking pro)

Maybe, if you want to access everything from the outside and don’t want that machine to be totally exposed:

  • some (reverse)proxy like nginx or caddy. I Prefer caddy, it’s fire&forget like all others mentioned here. Once setup though.

I admit, it’s a bit of tinkering and configuring, but once it’s working it’s fine. The *narrs auto-update reliably, emby does too. Occasionally you might manually update sabnzb and restart emby after an update, but that’s it.

I even integrated everything with telegram so I get notifications when someone added/moved/deleted something or stopped playing or whatever else. completely smart-home-integrated too.

if you have more questions, just hit me :)

RamblingPanda , (edited )

Thank you! Maybe it’s time to replace my pi Armada with a proper server and proximity proxmox.

Dyskolos ,

Anytime. As long as it gets the job done, the PIs are totally fine. At least they don’t consume much power :-)

RamblingPanda ,

I meant to write proxmox, but my keyboard seems to disagree.

Yeah, they’re awesome when they’re the right tool. But you need to switch once your needs outgrow them.

Dyskolos ,

Proxmox is nice, using it too on one of my servers. True. I would really not use a pi for that specific use :)

AceSLS ,

I’d recommend TraSH-Guides

There also is the Servarr Wiki

RamblingPanda ,

Thank you! I’ll have a look! I mean my friend will 😂

Blackout ,
@Blackout@kbin.run avatar

Pay for piracy? That'll get ya the plank!

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

Generally I agree. But I’d be willing to pay what I would pay a streaming company if they had all the content I wanted.

Blackout ,
@Blackout@kbin.run avatar

The automated services are quite nice. Ive enjoyed not managing a seed box for a while but it is the only guaranteed way these days.

Dyskolos ,

Dude, for that sum you could pay people pirating and servicing it for you 😁

BossDj ,

That’s what I do

Dyskolos ,

Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

veroxii ,

Must be nice having one or those free computers running on free electricity with free internet.

daq ,

I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it’ll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

Let’s go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

ReveredOxygen ,
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works avatar

Pay for a vpn, which is good for more than just piracy (mostly piracy though)

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

MegaVideo was the golden age

dept ,

there’s fboxz it’s an exact clone of fmovies.

Tregetour ,
@Tregetour@lemdro.id avatar

I don’t understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People’s Money principle).

Eldritch ,
@Eldritch@hexbear.net avatar

123movies, hdtoday are still working if you want alternatives ✌️

FMEEE ,

vidbinge.com is the sudo-flix succsesor

crawancon ,

error loading that site

wonderfulvoltaire ,

Disney, Hulu & Max have a decent bundle although I don’t enjoy the $30 a month price tag for no ads. Paramount has some good content but I don’t think it’s worth the upfront cost. Apple TV & peacock aren’t worth the price especially since apple requires proprietary hardware.

prettybunnys ,

play.google.com/store/apps/details/Apple_TV?id=co…

wonderfulvoltaire ,

Unfortunately it’s not compatible with my pixel :( I know where to find the shows it’s just annoying the only device I have that’s officially supported is a smart TV i.e. Vizio & LG.

tarius ,

fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

paris ,

This as well: rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

onlinepersona ,

sudo-flix, piracy app hosted on github. Probably will be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something…

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TheOctonaut , (edited )

Apparently someone removed my completely original comment in response to OnlinePersona’s. How strange.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Yes its sudo-flix, a piracy app hosted on github. It probably wil indeedl be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn’t surprise you if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something? I agree.

I made this.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I am confused. Sudoflix is down since a week or two already. How is it still working for you? They had a successor that they named on their page, maybe you mean that one.

Chozo ,

I'm not sure what OP's talking about, because fmovies is working for me just fine.

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

What URL are you using? I didn’t realize they had multiple. Another user posted their .lcc domain.

Chozo ,

I've had this open in a tab for several weeks now. Just refreshed, checked new episodes of stuff that's come out in the last few days, no issues. I wasn't even aware there were mirrors/clones.

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

The main sudo site now redirects here: docs.undi.rest/instances

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Huh, thanks for sharing, I didn’t get this one so far. I saw a link to one of the sites on it and that’s it.

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