Client support is imo one of the major weak points of Jellyfin. Jellyfin itself does not need donations at the moment, but developers of various clients do [1].

But many client devs don’t take donations. E.g. Swiftfin links to Jellyfin’s OpenCollective page instead of taking donations themselves [2].

[1] https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriously
[2] https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.

Unless you’ve downloaded remuxes (which I doubt), I’d seriously recommend redownloading instead of converting your existing files.

h.265 and especially AV1 take a long time to encode by CPU, and hardware encoding won’t give you any space savings, unless you’re okay with losing much details.

Redownloading is most definitely faster, will result in more space savings for the quality you’ll get. PS: Unless you’ve got data volume limits, but even then I’d recommend slowly upgrading over time. It’s quite simple with TRaSH guides and giving h.265 a higher score.

See my comment here. An open port is only required for TCP connections. uTP/UDP allows the tracker to open up a port temporarily in many cases. This won’t work for those stuck with ancient torrent clients.

That’s partially correct, partially wrong. An open port is required to allow for incoming connections for torrenting over TCP.

For TCP:

If a seed does not have an open port, a potential leech with an open port shares their IP & port with the tracker. The seed regularly asks the tracker for potential leeches. If the tracker provides a leech with an open port, then the seed connects to the leeches open port. This connection then allows the leech to download from the seed.

If neither of seed and leech has an open port, no connection can be established and thus no torrenting is possible.

For uTP/UDP:

If both peers (seed & leech) have no open ports, the tracker can use UDP hole punching to temporarily open up a port for the peers. The second peer can then connect directly to the first peer’s port which has been opened up by the tracker.

This only works for public torrents and with PEX enabled. For private trackers an open port is required.

It worked because the other people you connected to opened up a port themselves.

Edit: In some cases the tracker can open up a port for the peers. See https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/18977148

Yes. If you’ve got enough buffer anyway there’s not much reason to set up Cross-Seed.

Depending on the tracker this can work better or worse. E.g. I was on a tracker with minimal free leech content, so Cross-Seed helped me a lot.

https://www.cross-seed.org/

It takes a bit of time and careful reading until it’s set up.

For matching existing data you need to set up dataDirs and partial matchMode. Ideally your local files are organized (e.g. TRaSH guide) to improve cross-seeds ability to find matches. If you need help there’s a Discord linked on their website.

1337x.to works well too. If you use a website translator, like Firefox Translate, rutracker is great too.

Otherwise, private torrent sites (e.g. TorrentLeech) are the best addition to Usenet.

Keeping ratio is pretty easy if you set up Cross-Seed. It finds torrents matching your local files (e.g. Usenet downloads) and adds them to your torrent client without using additional space or downloading them again.

I […] Always care to have a VPN (Mullvad and Proton) active and also integrate it as an interface in BitTorrent.

If you set your torrent client to only use the VPN network interface, it’s much more likely to be CGNAT. In other words it’s been some other customer.

If you still use BitTorrent, I’d recommend switching to qBittorrent. The former is outdated and ridden with ads compared to the more performant qBittorrent.

Most trackers provide points for seeding torrents. Usually the amount of points depends on the size and the amount of torrents.

These points can be exchanged for “upload” (or other things like an invite), which helps with increasing the ratio.

Given there’s seperate front end and backend code, does this mean it’s possible to write an alternative front end for Arcadia?

As for your design, I like it! It looks like a more modern gazelle-like interface at first glance.

Below is the thread of german torrent trackers. Part of the table is cut off on mobile so I recommend switching to desktop site.

I suggest trying to enter Immortuos, TNTracker, and RocketHD. Seedpool is great for 0-day German scene content, but it’s an international tracker.

IM is worth a try but they need proofs and will likely tell you to wait a few months for more assccount age (e.g. minimum half a year or so).

TNT is easy to get an invite for, if your somewhat active in a community where you know people are on TNT.

AnimeWorld is the best for anime and typically does open sign ups around new year.

RocketHD is an upcoming tracker which is better than the stats suggest. Also it’s improving quickly with an active community. It’s the only German tracker with an invite path (through MAM).

TS is the best. But unless you’ve been active for years with great (!) (international) proofs it’s impossible to get into.

https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Edit: If you’re in Germany you must bind your torrent client to your VPN. Else it’ll be an expensive lesson.

• epub is the best ebook format. Use Calibre to convert to it from e.g. azw3 (Amazon)
• m4b > mp3. The former is better suited for audio books.
• archive.org for archiving websites

BitTorrent v2 allows for per file hashing, which makes it easier to merge swarms. This could be used to keep individual episodes alive without splitting seeders between season pack and individual episodes.

But given how many tracker staff want to continue doing what they’ve always done, I don’t think it’s big enough of an advantage for them to allow v2.

Just wanted to point out that downloading is no longer a grey area since an EU ruling a couple of years ago. Streaming as well as downloading from unauthorized sources is plainly illegal - you’re right about it being very unlikely to be prosecuted for it.

The one and only a absolutely necessary precaution is preventing your torrent client from accessing the internet when the VPN is not running.
This must be done by binding your torrent client to your VPN network interface. [1]
A “VPN Kill Switch” or similar is not enough to prevent your IP from leaking to law firms.

It’s also a good idea to use a reputable VPN company like AirVPN, ProtonVPN or Njalla VPN.

I’m also german and I’ve been using torrents for years, so this definitely works well for me. A friend of mine’s brother received an “Abmahnung” from a law firm, as well as a more distant person ended up paying around 1000€. I feel like almost any german somehow heard of people getting letters.

[1] https://protonvpn.com/support/bittorrent-vpn/

• ActualBudget for finances.
• Radicale for calendar/contacts.
• Immich for photos/videos.
• Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw).
• TheLounge as an IRC client.
• Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
• paperless-ngx for documents

I’ve been lucky and have had only a few issues and none with the small amount of games I’ve launched over the last year or so.

There’s an issue where people report issues with games, although I don’t know how up-to-date it is.

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311

wine-ge is patched wine which includes many patches proton has that make games work (well).

Also, the developer of wine-ge no longer has their focus on it, because UMU [1] makes it possible to use proton(-ge) directly. UMU is already included in Lutris, Bottles & Co., or you can use it standalone [1].

[1] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

There’s two reasons why r/linux is popular on Reddit:

1. Reddit is popular
2. r/linux is popular