I have some idea on whose torrents to avoid but still if you have a good list please share.

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      How? Just because someone has a gate on their house doesn’t mean there aren’t criminals inside

      It’s the safer option to be sure, but never feel safe or comfortable while lurkin these here seas or you might get capsized out of the blue!

      • yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        For the most parts, movies and tv shows is generally safe. It’s really difficult to do anything from a media file (.mkv/.mp4) and as long as the torrent doesn’t contain any other weird files you’re fine.

        It’s with software and games that you really need to be careful. For software, I would recommend m0nkrus releases from rutracker.org . Google translate the comments on any release and you will see whether any release is suspicious.

        Games on the other hand is very hard. There are a bunch of really popular sites that will include some sort of crypto software and other questionable stuff along with their games (igg-games comes to mind). The only public space I trust to get games from is fitgirl-repack.site (this domain is the only official one). Other than that, I only trust GazelleGames but you have to find a way into that and I’m not gonna say it’s hard but its definitely a bit of effort to join.

        • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Great info! Thanks for sharin :)

          Im abstaining from anything to do with Russia however given their current disposition against the majority of the globe and their efforts with WiperWare

    • NXL@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      How do the arrs protect you from untrusted uploaders though? Don’t they just automatically download torrents based on the names and number of seeders?

      • LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 years ago

        Video quality is considered along with tags, which I don’t really understand myself. Torrents with the PROPER tag have highest priority, etc. It can get very granular. I never distrusted this system and find it better than going off uploader name.

        • yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Sonarr only downloads media according to the the rules you give it. If you don’t give it any rules, it will just grab whatever immediately matches the quality profile (1080p, 2160p, etc)

          What you can do is follow the trash-guides. Those will give you an updated list of decent groups, and if you use them with notifiarr/recylarr, the profiles on sonarr/radarr will also auto-update along with changes in the guides

          • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            How do I configure radarr and sonarr to only download 1080p style movies / shows? It keeps grabbing 40gb movies, I just want the 1-2gb versions, which are plenty for me.

            • yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              1. What indexers do you have added to sonarr/radarr? dbzer0 doesn’t mind naming them afaik so you’re good to share them here

              2. Setting the quality slider as the other user suggested should work. Go to Settings->Quality and slide the size for WEBDL-1080P and BLURAY-1080P to the size you’d prefer (remember that it’s defined as size per hour and not total size of the file)

              3. The best way to do this imo is to define release profiles based on groups. I’m guessing, based on your size preferences, you’d normally grab H265/HEVC 1080p releases re-encoded by various groups like TGx and PSA

              On Sonarr (v3), create a release profile and name it whatever you want. In the Must Contain field, paste this -

              /^(?=.*(1080|720))(?=.*((x|h)[ ._-]?265|hevc)).*/i

              This will force Sonarr to only grab releases which are HEVC. This is actually supposed to go in the Must Not Contain field because re-encodes are much more inferior. But if your intention is to save space this works.

              Then in the preferred section you can define the rankings for certain groups you’d like to see. So type in -PSA on the first one and give it a score of 100. In the next one type -TGx with a score of 95 and so on with the groups you’d like to see with corresponding scores according to your preferences.

              Radarr is on v4 and now uses Custom Formats so read https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/ to get a better understanding. The Sonarr section can also help if you want to be more specific with your filters. Anyway, Custom Formats can be imported pretty easily but its best you go through that yourself and try to recreate the profile we made on Sonarr for Radarr

          • LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            Ok, and how is that any worse than looking at uploader name like we’re still in 2004. The automatic method is fine.

            • yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              Maybe for you, but that’s not how it is for a lot of other people. Some of us prefer to control what releases we grab instead of blindly passing it off to what is essentially a glorified RSS reader (when you don’t set up rules)

                • yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  3·
                  2 years ago

                  Like I said before it’s about control. A lot of us want to be able to control what we want to watch, the specific release groups and source of the content we watch. I’m not saying it’s necessarily better than what you do. You have a 128tb media server and you’re obviously a lot more invested into this whole thing than I am but I prefer to control my content.

  • CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    On topic, can someone clarify if/why IGG is bad?

    They seem to have quite the following and popular on 1337x. Not a joke/troll, genuinely curious.