TOR now has quite some big nodes. If you’re lucky and your path goes through them, you can hit speeds of around 1MB/s - I know I have.
Plus, with a small linux box that downloads the stuff for you overnight, it’s not really an issue. You can use JDownloader with TOR as a proxy. Add links to it to download, go to bed and wake up with everything downloaded 🫰
1MB/s is not enough? Most films are <1GB. That’s <1000s / ~17minutes to download a film. Well enough to watch a few TED talks, read some ArsTechnica articles, or read a single Salon article. Hell, it’s good enough to talk a short walk outside, fill up the dishwasher, tidy up the room a little, or lift a few weights.
Well, we like quality on our server, everything 4k (if it exists) we recently decided to not take remux since they are often >100GB. But 20GB to 40GB is the norm for our movie files. You gotta use that 10Gb/s up line at our server for something, lol. (I know downscaling 4k down if on bad mobile network is very heavy computing, but in those cases we use the save offline feature of plex)
77 movies are above 50GB…
236 are above 25GB
631 are above 10GB
1072 are above 5GB
3021 are above 2GB
5896 are above 1.5GB
6675 above 1GB (more files than I have unique movies in plex due to doubles/editions/nonimported)
11 files less than 1GB…
Are you only downloading 720p? How the hell are you ending up finding movies that are less than 1GB and are still quality enough to actually watch?
I understand that, my point was that at 1080p and less than 1GB of storage… that bitrate must be trash and virtually unwatchable.
Edit: To my point… A lot of my anime episodes are like 300-900MB… but those are ~25 minutes… To find a 90+ minute movie at 1GB… that’s an estimated 2/3 of the quality of an anime image which is usually easier to compress. I just can’t see a normal movie being 1GB and not looking like480p that was poorly upscaled to 1080p… like a camrip.
720p < 1GB, 1080 < 2GB. The biggest film I have is 4k HDR at 8GB.
Still, between ~17 minutes and 35 minutes of download time are completely alright for me. I have loads of time and only watch stuff about 1-2 times a week.
I’m sorry, but I’m with the person above you… 4K movies should be 20GB+ if you’re getting true HDR, appropriate bitrates, and high quality audio. My copy of the Hobbit movies are as high as 75 GB each (extended version but still).
I agree if it’s the max speed of you internet line, sure. But I grew up with 56k and didn’t have >1Mb/s (notice Mb, not MB) until I left for university, so waiting for content is totally normal. Especially if that content can wait and if that speed is due to security.
If I were at work and had to wait 20 minutes to download a docker image, that would indeed be unacceptable.
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Is TOR good for direct downloads? Isn’t it pretty slow?
TOR now has quite some big nodes. If you’re lucky and your path goes through them, you can hit speeds of around 1MB/s - I know I have.
Plus, with a small linux box that downloads the stuff for you overnight, it’s not really an issue. You can use JDownloader with TOR as a proxy. Add links to it to download, go to bed and wake up with everything downloaded 🫰
I could not live with just 1MB/s down…
1MB/s is not enough? Most films are <1GB. That’s <1000s / ~17minutes to download a film. Well enough to watch a few TED talks, read some ArsTechnica articles, or read a single Salon article. Hell, it’s good enough to talk a short walk outside, fill up the dishwasher, tidy up the room a little, or lift a few weights.
Different priorities, I guess.
Well, we like quality on our server, everything 4k (if it exists) we recently decided to not take remux since they are often >100GB. But 20GB to 40GB is the norm for our movie files. You gotta use that 10Gb/s up line at our server for something, lol. (I know downscaling 4k down if on bad mobile network is very heavy computing, but in those cases we use the save offline feature of plex)
Do you watch pixel slideshows?
Looking at my library… I have 6662 movies.
77 movies are above 50GB…
236 are above 25GB
631 are above 10GB
1072 are above 5GB
3021 are above 2GB
5896 are above 1.5GB
6675 above 1GB (more files than I have unique movies in plex due to doubles/editions/nonimported)
11 files less than 1GB…
Are you only downloading 720p? How the hell are you ending up finding movies that are less than 1GB and are still quality enough to actually watch?
Search for something, sort by number of seeders, download the top file around the size you want.
Also remembering uploaded names helps (yify comes to mind)
I understand that, my point was that at 1080p and less than 1GB of storage… that bitrate must be trash and virtually unwatchable.
Edit: To my point… A lot of my anime episodes are like 300-900MB… but those are ~25 minutes… To find a 90+ minute movie at 1GB… that’s an estimated 2/3 of the quality of an anime image which is usually easier to compress. I just can’t see a normal movie being 1GB and not looking like480p that was poorly upscaled to 1080p… like a camrip.
720p < 1GB, 1080 < 2GB. The biggest film I have is 4k HDR at 8GB.
Still, between ~17 minutes and 35 minutes of download time are completely alright for me. I have loads of time and only watch stuff about 1-2 times a week.
I’m sorry, but I’m with the person above you… 4K movies should be 20GB+ if you’re getting true HDR, appropriate bitrates, and high quality audio. My copy of the Hobbit movies are as high as 75 GB each (extended version but still).
No, that’s really slow.
I agree if it’s the max speed of you internet line, sure. But I grew up with 56k and didn’t have >1Mb/s (notice Mb, not MB) until I left for university, so waiting for content is totally normal. Especially if that content can wait and if that speed is due to security. If I were at work and had to wait 20 minutes to download a docker image, that would indeed be unacceptable.
Sure but you didn’t have to download 100MB javascript files and 500 FHD images on each website.
😂 true