Back in 2019 some releases installed directly from IGG-GAMES contained crypto miners. They also added their own DRM to releases. Since then I have stayed away and never looked back.
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hallowed is the internal release group at MTV. Their aim is to produce highly streamable (think Plex/Jellyfin) but still high quality encodes. They also always include English subs and dual audio for foreign films. The quality of their releases are good but very few as they only started releasing under that name about 5 months ago.
However, if you are gunning for highest possible quality/bitrate (and file size) you can get, go with releases by CtrlHD, MainFrame or W4NK3R.
FraMeSTor is the internal group at BHD.
EPSiLON was previously releasing on PHD but left a couple years ago. They release to TL but are not nearly as active as they once were.
I prioritize FraMeSTor, and they have more releases post-2020.
Jellyfin is very unreliable with live tv in my experience. It takes ages to reload a playlist and sometimes the old channels still appear in library....
I have run Jellyfin for about 3 years. Plex has a lot of community support and praise so I spun up a test instance. Unfortunately for Jellyfin, Plex is much most reliable for me in pretty much every way. I would love for Jellyfin to keep improving but the switch to Plex just made the media experience so much nicer.
I've started setting up my media server and was wondering if I should put my docker containers with sonarr and radarr behind my VPN the same as my qbit?
You can but you don't need to. All they really do is organise everything. Any requests go through Prowlarr/Jackett which do the API calls then push that to qBit. One could argue you should put Prowlarr behind a VPN as well but it depends on the trackers you have in there.
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Just noticed that both 1337x and TorrentGalaxy mark IGGGAMES as a "trusted uploader"
But I remember seeing that group being blacklisted and called out in multiple Piracy communities and wikis a few years ago....
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Are hallowed releases good?
Hi, I saw a couple releases by hallowed and was wondering if the quality is good. Does anyone know how they compare to other 4k encodes?
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Why do some peers have unusual client names ( lemmings.world )
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What are your opinions on EPSiLON vs FraMeSToR
These groups do most mainstream shows with similar settings so when should you choose one over the other?
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m3u (iptv) server which is not Jellyfin?
Jellyfin is very unreliable with live tv in my experience. It takes ages to reload a playlist and sometimes the old channels still appear in library....
Do i need to run sonarr and radarr behind my VPN?
I've started setting up my media server and was wondering if I should put my docker containers with sonarr and radarr behind my VPN the same as my qbit?
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