Is anybody else having trouble with Stremio over the last few days? Everything was smooth until after the weekend. Now it will barely play anything without kicking me out or crashing - external player or not.

It seems like there is a connection error, maybe?

I will mention I did renew the real debrid subscription which seems fishy - I used to use TorrentioRD+ but it doesn’t recognise my subscription so I can only use Torrentio.

Any advice would be great because the internet is kinda useless.

Edit: I went the path of least resistance and changed the API key and reinstalled TorrentioRD. That seems to have fixed the streaming problem for now and also the problem I had streaming in an external player.

Thanks for all your responses. I learned some good stuff. (Please keep responding/replying if you have other ideas as surely other people will have similar problems).

  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    They added some cloudflare stuff, which broke things on my always on vpn. Why would i use my normal connection to torrent? Why add cloudflare protection when most people are going to be using vpns? Its stupid decision honestly.

    Anyways, last i used it was like a month ago. I deleted the app afterwards.

    • porcelainpitcher@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Sad that seems to be the way many other people are going. If it fks up for much longer or is much more of a hassle I’ll be doing the same. Too much admin!

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s always had issues. During the 4.X versions the app would crash constantly during playback on Windows.

    I since moved to Linux, but I still use my solution to avoid future headaches.

    Use https://web.stremio.com/ instead and set it to open in external player. In this case you can use any actually separate player you like since the website just barfs out a .m3u file after you choose something to watch. I have Firefox set to automatically open .m3u files in the mpv media player.

    That way I avoid Stremio’s shitty unstable streaming service, player GUI, and its lack of HDR support.

  • 99zz99 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I use it every day and haven’t had any issues. I use Torbox and Torrentio. I don’t want to downplay your problems but it’s pretty solid for me. I’d say maybe once every couple weeks I’ll get some glitch where it shows there’s no seeders when I know for a fact there are. Other than that, it runs without issue.

    Glad your fix worked though. I’ll keep it in mind if I ever run across anything.