I’ve always felt like the whole docker/jellyfin/plex/loads-of-other-apps stuff is way too overboard just to do a bit of pirating, so I usually just hop on one of the movie/show or anime streaming sites with uBlock Origin installed and watch that way.
Currently I’m looking at what I can setup in the living room, and was thinking of just using an old PC with a wireless keyboard. I would like to use a media center type interface, but I’ve never actually used Kodi before. Would I be able to just use Kodi to stream from those kinds of services?
Searches so far show that everyone apparently uses Kodi with something called Real Debrid, which I have zero interest in.
I’ve done this before, it works decently well. However, the streaming resources get muddied up quite fast. One I set up maybe a year or two ago is filled with broken links. And quality is very inconsistent.
So is it possible? Absolutely. Is it something I’d recommend if you want something consistent and a dependable way to watch? Not really.
As someone who used the streaming plugins of the early '00s I’d say you’re better off running your own media server. As others have said they always broke and you’d have no way of knowing if and when they’d be fixed.
I dont know about kodi, but I do know something called stremio has a plug in to stream torrents, and it seems like what you’re looking for.
stream torrents
It’s called leeching
Well, I don’t know anything about hooking it up to a streaming service, but I would personally really suggest the overboard way you mentioned tbh. Just set up qbittorrent with a few choice plugins (I literally just have 1337x and that has not failed me yet) and use that PC you mentioned (HDD size permitting) to run a small media server of whatever you’d like. Sorry if that is really not what you want, I’ve just found it to be the best media setup personally.
