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This only partially related.

I recently killed all my subscriptions and swapped over to a plex + seedbox + sonar/radarr set up.

The experience is good but not quite up to par with real streaming service. There are still rough edges. I always have issues with plex subtitles.

https://overseerr.dev/ is a nice addition for content exploration to the set up but for me the missing piece is being able to stream on demand.

Does anyone know if it's possible to bridge the gap between streaming torrents and tv?

Maybe webtorrents + casting?

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On-demand is discouraged and bad for the swarm, sorry.

Though with a fair connection the delay before a full download shouldn't be too long. With a nice native frontend to Jellyfin/Plex (ex. Infuse) maybe you don't really need that? Maybe, just asking.

>On-demand is discouraged and bad for the swarm, sorry.

Not optimal, but not bad in any way.

There shouldn't be any reason for on-demand to be bad for the swarm, given that the downloading node continues to seed afterwards, no? If the user can watch the content because it's downloaded on-demand and automatically lets it stay on the drive until a ratio has been reached, isn't it win-win for both sides?

Stremio + torrentio + a debrid service (Real-Debrid, Premiumize, AllDebrid, etc.) is almost perfect for what you're asking. There's no personalized recommendation algorithm but you can scroll trough several categories/genres or even install/make your own add-ons for that.

What is debrid exactly? I often see a reference to it, but I don't know what it does in more technical terms.

I have a perfectly good setup with torrent, vpn, sonarr, radarr, bazarr, it might be time to add streaming now.

A debrid service allows you to bypass the download limits of file-sharing websites (like 4shared, MEGA, etc.) without needing to have an premium account on each website.

They also provide functionally similar to seedboxes were they download torrents and then you download them directly from their servers. A lot of torrents are cached already (someone tried to download them already) and that's the functionality that's useful for Kodi or Stremio streaming as it allows you to stream media easily.

For subs you should use bazaar, it will download and even synchronize your subs automatically

Seconded. Just setup Bazarr and disable all forms of subtitle grabbing in the arrs and your media server.

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