Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV
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It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?
OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources.
Windows is a mess under the hood with all the registry fiddling an installer has to do, but there are dozens of existing alternatives out there already, both free and commercial which abstract that away.
It surely trades this with a bunch of other problems, such as excessive embedding of third-party code copies.
(This is particularly problematic for video decoder code given the number of exploits in this area.)
Checkinstall makes building debs pretty easy if you're using make to build the app.
https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing...
Building .debs is not all that difficult, just sort of an archaic and not particularly well-documented process. fpm (Ruby Gem) is worth looking into if you want a quick'n'dirty way to create packages.
And making a package from a source tarball is as easy as checkinstall.
You can also check the contents before unpacking with mc or using tar directly if you prefer.
When you don't have any activated, it relies on local indexing.
On the other hand, the default add-ons suggest to you links to iTunes/Netflix/etc.
There are third-party add-ons that use torrents, those can be shown in the product if they are popular in your area.
But why is it a desktop app? It looks like most of the content is available on the web. I think I'd rather just use that than download some app like this.
So, sorry you are making yourself liable by trying to do a work around what popcorn time was doing, as well your marketing on the site and the comments you leave here and elsewhere on the iNet makes you culpable no matter what country your in.
Overall your site looks awesome and I miss popcorn time and happy to see another similar app pop up. No doubt there will be tons more similar apps after yours gets shut down by the copyright dummies; dummies because they need to change their game/business model. Make the social experience of going to a movie theater something that makes that experience piracy proof and let piracy run rampant but they make money from it somehow. Let all of us hackers create amazing innovation around their content and they buy/own the best inventions... not sure, but they need to do something different if they are concerned about piracy. Though Star Wars did just make a half a billion dollars in one weekend and other films did similarly this year too, so they aren't suffering!
Also, have you checked out the app from the US/UK/anywhere where Netflix is supported?
Using movie/series marketing materials to promote links to Netflix, Hulu and iTunes - I don't think that's infringement in any way.
Also, we cannot control what OTHER add-ons appear in the app. If we receive complains we'd be happy to stop them.
We're trying to build the next Plex, not the next Popcorn Time.
Otherwise good points about the industry, but that's not our war to fight :)
Hey, Im all for this ... copyright will soon get fed up with the constant whack a mole and embrace all the hackers/innovators for the better of their bottom lines. They just need to bring on tech/entertainment talent to run their companies ... it will happen one day.
Of course, just like Plex, you can use torrent add-ons with it.
Something to point out is that we do suggest to the users add-ons which are popular in the area, so it makes any experience very streamlined.
Besides the usability and ease of use, it's pretty much the same concept :)
Plex cannot solve these issues easily, because of it's technical design, the add-ons system / concept itself and the server architecture that is so important for their users
Think of Stremio as a possible Plex for the masses.
So my quick review: It's like Plex with popcorn time built in.