We gotta make this happen!
I can try. Popcorn time is an hybrid app, made entirely in html/css and node js. I will post it to /r/plex if I am able to do it.
You guys know about https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/102253-rel-bittorrent-channel/ right?
It pulls all its movies from YIFY, theres already a channel for that, so we kind of have it. The interface is nowhere near as nice as the popcorn time app though so i do agree, an actual popcorn channel would be nice.
I’m not sure if this is even possible? I’ve got a fair bit of experience with making channels and I cant see how the framework would work this way.
At the very least you’d need the popcorn time app or another compabitle torrent app installed on your server machine. Unless there’s some web service out there that can buffer torrent files on the fly and return a video stream (much like how yify.tv or popcorn time already work).
Why not just torrent what you want instead. It is a hell of a lot safer if you use a good tracker compared to popcorntime.
i just thought of this and after landing on this post I wanted to bump it. Anyone have any updates or nuh?
That would be really cool man! Keep us posted!
I didn’t know about that. I’m glad you shared this! Thank you.
What is this channel?
how does this compare to Letmewatchthis?
The problem is, provided the YIFY channel is populating metadata correctly (and I haven’t actually used it, so forgive me if it doesnt!), a popcorn time channel will look identical. As far as interface is concerned. This is just how plex channels work.
pop corn time exposes the stream via http on port 8888. You can try it by just pausing the movie and then navigate to http://localhost:8888 in a browser.
I’m currently using chromecast to send that stream over to my TV. So theoretically you could just wrap that http stream into a plex channel. You just have to figure out how to initiate the start/stopping of the specific movie and search/navigating between various movies.
The source for pop corn time is up on github, so its possible just fork that and add some control features to control movie start stop over http.
Because there is not a good interface for browsing and watching within Plex. The beauty of popcorntime is that does all of the bittorrent nonsense in the background for you and starts playing a high quality movie without waiting for the download to complete.
Its the YIFY.tv channel. You can install it through the Unsupported Appstore channel
I think it’s much, much better. Perhaps a smaller selection and no TV shows, but it’s all much higher quality and there’s never any buffering or hiccups.
I haven’t used Letmewatchthis. I’ve never properly used this either if I’m honest. The quality isn’t really up to what I want.
Anything and everything you view over the internet is downloaded to the device it is being viewed on. Whether you hit a download button or not, that’s the way it works. If you are viewing this Reddit page, that means you’ve downloaded the information to your computer.
That said, the Yify channel does not involve torrents, so to answer your question, no, you are not seeding anything. On a side note, even if privacy were an issue, it wouldn’t matter if your Roku were behind a VPN or not. Everything you view using Plex is first downloaded to your PC and then streamed from your PC to your Roku. So long as your PC is behind a VPN, it makes no difference if your Roku is or not.
You shouldn’t need to run the VPN on your Roku. All the downloading is done on the server, then just sent over your LAN to the Roku. Can you access YIFY.tv normally?
I didnt even think about that. Very true. So yeah, popcorn time on plex already exists.