Brickfrog

Seems all TGx domains are down right now unfortunately.

Don’t know if this is a “new” domain or something

It’s not a TGx domain, all their official ones are listed at https://proxygalaxy.me/

You’re looking at a mirror site probably displaying torrents from TPB and/or 1337x.

LibreTorrent is the standard if you’re looking for an open source client that works well. You can install from the Google Play Store but from what I’ve read it works better if you install it from elsewhere / sideload the .apk so it can better access the Android storage.

BiglyBT is also open source and available on Android (never used it myself).

There’s also FrostWire, it is open source though it tries to do a bit more than just torrents so it’s not always quite what people are looking for. I remember the main dev used to be active over on Reddit not sure if he ever made it over to the Lemmyverse.

A lot of people do like Flud, not open source or anything like that but it does have its fans.

The paid way to do this is is to buy something like Streamfab to download the stream directly from the source. Note for the most part you will be limited to 720p/1080p. Another paid software that used to be around was Redfox AnyStream but they went offline last year.

Only private trackers / scene would know about 2160p / 4K downloads and they’re not going to share publicly about their methods.

The free method is to attempt to do the video capture yourself (see earlier comments) rather than download the stream itself.

Of course for the most part tons of content has already been downloaded by others and made available via torrents, DDL, etc.

Seems like more plebbit spam.

That’s interesting, apparently it was mentioned on github but nothing seems to have changed in the end

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

Haven’t used that software in a long time but maybe there’s an opt-out somewhere during runtime? Although I don’t see why a user needs to be required to opt out of nonsense like this when just writing firmware to a USB disk.

Only ever touched balenaEtcher when some project or distro recommended it. Overall prefer Rufus for this sort of thing when working on Windows.

Lots of permaseeders out there, you can be one too :)

There’s no real downside as long as your ISP doesn’t limit your bandwidth.

I’m getting the “moov atom not found” error even though the file is at 100%. The whole torrent isn’t at 100% yet, but I enabled sequential downloading.

Either the .mp4 is corrupt, or you need to wait for the torrent itself to finish 100% complete.

You are downloading in sequential mode, and it sounds like these .mp4 files were generated with the moov atom at the end of the file. Which means the file is cut off at the very end (aka corrupt) or the torrent itself just never finished downloading the last pieces of that .mp4 file.

At least that’s how I’m understanding your question… you’re saying the file is at 100% but you’re also saying the torrent isn’t at 100%, to me that sounds like there’s torrent pieces missing to complete the rest of the .mp4 file maybe.

EDIT: Just to add, technically encoding software can write that moov atom at the beginning of the .mp4 file which would avoid this problem entirely but it sounds like these files you’re downloading aren’t encoded that way. In encoding software usually that means “optimizing” the file or making it “web” ready for a web browser to play immediately as it downloads sequentially… I forget what ffmpeg calls it specifically.

EDIT 2: Thinking about it, if you’re desperate to play this file as-is maybe you can run it through ffmpeg to create a new .mp4 file and then play it that way. It’s not a real fix since the original source seems to be broken but you may be able to get something playable at least.

Again with this? You’re just spamming /c/Piracy at this point (and probably breaking rule #4).

Torrent swarms need at least one connectable (port forwarded) peer for any torrent data to transfer. In large torrent swarms you won’t notice this too much since there are usually plenty of connectable peers available.

The effect tends to be more noticeable in smaller swarms.

In practice you may not notice unless you try to download those torrents with one lone seed who also happen to have no port forward. In those cases you’ll see there’s a seed but no torrent data ever transfers over to you. (note that the same happens in reverse if you’re the lone seed on many torrents)

Are there new ones that carry the torch? Do the successors to these release groups have their trackers too?

The vast majority of public torrent indexers do not run their own trackers.

Dead trackers are common with old torrents. Personally I remove all the public trackers and just let DHT take care of that.

But if you prefer to have active public trackers on there then you could

1. Remove all the dead ones
2. Add the top x trackers from https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

Something like https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli ? Haven’t used it myself but it’s been on my radar.

I’ve found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they’re “hard” to get into

You just have to interview for either/both of them, they’re not really that hard to get into. Certainly easier to get into vs any of the big movie/tv trackers, none of those have interview to join.

That said if you are already established at other big private trackers then often you may be able to just join via the tracker’s internal forums, tracker recruiters are often found there.

Discussed in the earlier post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35846542

I’ve always paid with crypto.

But you might be able to buy a prepaid credit card with cash and then use that for the seedbox payment? Maybe just double-check that it would work with your seedbox provider e.g. in the U.S. most prepaid cards sold in stores are U.S. only and won’t process international transactions and since most seedbox providers are outside the U.S. they may not work together. Haven’t spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the right prepaid card for those scenarios.

Just a random guess - Maybe Cloudflare is killing the connection attempts every now and then? IPT does use Cloudflare on their end. I don’t have any specific experience with that but people have mentioned using things like FlareSolverr when using the *arr apps with a site behind Cloudflare.

If it’s not that then maybe it’s just IPT, hopefully someone else with the *arr apps set up with that tracker can give you more insight.

My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.

If you’re just looking for virtual cards, could you just apply for a credit card with that capability? In the U.S. there are credit card providers that can do that, not sure about Canada but I figured it’d be the same there.

Otherwise the comment from /u/brrt@sh.itjust.works is spot on, all the phone apps like Google Pay already virtualize your card number so you’re not actually sharing your full details with the merchant. Or make your own prepaid debit card via a separate checking account you put a bit of spending money into.

I don’t use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn’t known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.

Of course it would be better if it was open source but he’s never been an open source coder AFAIK.

On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.

qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don’t have a gui to do initial setup with.

To DIY you can buy your own domain and attach it to any paid email provider, then you get an infinite amount of temporary addresses. e.g. if you own @ rumschlumpel.blahblahblah.org then you can create abc@ , xyz@ , abc123@ , etc. as much as you like.

Just about all the email provider suggestions in this thread have a paid tier that you can configure your own domain with.

Edit: why the downvotes?

Users on lemmy.world are generally very anti cryptocurrency, they’re going to downvote anything discussing the topic. Just browse other cryptocurrency posts in this instance and read all the .world comments.

re: your question I suspect to truly selfhost you’d need to sync the bitcoin blockchain onto your own system and work from there, either with the official client or some other heavy wallet. Beyond that not sure, may need to script a query to your local wallet to monitor for changes to specific BTC addresses (if something doesn’t already exist to do this).