I think to most people asking how this works, the answer is, you connect it to AllDebrid/RealDebrid paid accounts, and that's the contents you stream. Hence it's a streamer system for a paid service. I think this is the most important clarification needed here.
So it's like Seren, but for Android instead of Kodi, and with a mandatory server part?
For the folks confusing this with an alternative to Jellyfin or Plex, I believe this project is more meant to be akin to Stremio, but self-hosted.
Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?
This only works with a paid pirate service.
how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it'd be unfair not to mention them)?
It doesn't. It's nothing like any of these two. They provide local media content, Odin on the other hand streams media directly provided by the debrid service.
So, no downloading and hoarding involved.
So it’s like a torrent streaming service?
I think to most people asking how this works, the answer is, you connect it to AllDebrid/RealDebrid paid accounts, and that’s the contents you stream. Hence it’s a streamer system for a paid service. I think this is the most important clarification needed here.
Can this play back my local media collection or is it just a debrid proxy frontend?
no local media collection.
Well that's disappointing
I know, right? I too wanted to watch your local media!
Are you planning on adding support for Premiuimize and Torbox? A lot of people just left Real Debrid (and all other French hosted services) due to France kicking down on piracy. Real Debrid just recently announced they would start to block piracy related content at least.
Is there any way this could be modified for indie musicians to move away from bigTech? FOSS Spotify alternative with bitcoin ?
Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don't have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn't see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.
What? Jellyfin doesn't need any "suite"? You can use it with your collection obtained whatever way.
So it doesn't download for later use? It just becomes a proxy system to stream from the debrid service?
Exactly. It gets the streaming links instantly from the debrid service.
What do you mean jellyfin uses the *are suite?
I have Jellyfin with any media in different directories as long as I try to match the format the documents mention.
So, as long as I can get the media in any way I can just put it in any directory and it'll be added to the library.
Is it similar with Odin? Or does it directly fetch the media from where you want to download it?
It doesn't download anything and also does not fetch any local media. It uses jackett to scrape sites like 1337x.to for magnets, sends these magnets to realdebrid/alldebrid and gets a streamable link back which you can watch instantly.
By arr-suite.. I meant the automated setups that people do, to get stuff downloaded directly into the movies/shows folders, hoarding huge MKV files, etc... Sorry for the confusing wording.
You keep saying "hoarding" but I think you mean collecting/protecting in many cases.
Yeah, if the ones and zeros arent in your drive, it can disappear at any point from the internet.
I frequently want to watch things that aren't the latest blockbuster with hundreds of seeders.
If there's only one person seeding and they aren't on 24/7 this whole flow falls apart.
Thank goodness bladders don't require others for the flow of our own individual streams!
Some people just don't want to store anything on their devices for whatever reason.
And that's fine. Totally fine. I wouldn't use judgemental words or words with a negative connotation to describe their lack of storage because I feel that's an absolutely fine stance to have.
Is it possible to self host a debrid?
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