Brickfrog

The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.

https://github.com/zlatinb/muwire/commits/master/

People still use the eMule client but nowadays the community version is the version that gets some updates

https://www.emule-project.com/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download

https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/

But technically any eMule / KAD compatible client can connect to the servers and download/upload to users there e.g. Mldonkey is another client being used.

It’s been a few years since I was last active on there but back then there was still a healthy amount of users and activity, I suspect it’s still going strong.

Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).

I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)

Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).

That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it’s more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.

Syncthing is not just for LAN use. Even their homepage mentions transmitting data over the internet

https://syncthing.net/

I’ve been using it to sync devices over the internet for years. It’s also how people use it to sync from say their desktop to their phones, remote server, etc.

If you watch your network firewall Syncthing does reach out to servers on the internet to help it find other devices so e.g. if you enter the other device’s ID (example ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG) it can reach out over the internet to find that specific ID to pair with. I think Syncthing uses a sort of DHT resolver to find other devices, I know on my firewall I had to whitelist Syncthing’s servers to make it work.

I was going to try to link you some references but their forums seem to have connection issues at the moment, you may want to search around later if you’re interested how Syncthing works over the internet.

I’d say it’s worth it. Another bonus with your own domain is that you basically have an infinite amount of receiving email addresses you can use for no extra charge e.g. you can just keep making up new email addresses @ yourdomain whenever you need to register to a new website or whatever.

Drastically cuts down on the amount of spam you get at your main/personal address(es). Also helps whenever a website or whatever has a data breach, just means your random made up email address was leaked and it’s easy enough to mark that as spam going forward.

While I personally prefer not to use YTS releases due to their low quality, and can’t seem to find a legitimate YTS link

Anything YIFY/YTS related that exists today is clone, YIFY himself got into legal trouble and left all this stuff behind years ago. Nowadays the main active YTS site that most people use is run by the same group that stole the EZTV site.

e.g.

https://torrentfreak.com/yify-speaks-confessions-of-a-movie-piracy-icon-160424/

https://torrentfreak.com/yify-yts-shuts-down-the-end-of-a-piracy-icon-151030/

https://torrentfreak.com/found-a-new-yts-yify-site-its-a-fake-151104/

Okay you got me thinking about this a bit, my own hardware is not DV capable so typically I just avoid media that is DV only. But for experimentation I tested a few media players on Windows

• Jellyfin
• Kodi
• MPC-BE
• MPC-HE
• MPV
• Potplayer
• VLC

Interestingly with default settings none of them will playback DV with tonemapping (no HDR, just DV only aka DV Profile 5).

I did figure out additional settings for one of the media players, MPV will do DV tonemapping if you add “–vo=gpu-next” to the command line on startup e.g.

mpv --vo=gpu-next yourmediafile.mkv

No idea on any of the other media players, there weren’t any obvious settings to enable for DV tonemapping.

Reference re: mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9506

What software are you using? Most modern software can already do HDR tonemapping so it would look normal during playback.

I think the issue for you is that you are downloading files that are DV only, no HDR fallback, and AFAIK media with DV only cannot be played back with tonemapping (hence why you are seeing it all pink/puple/green). To properly play DV media you’d need DV compatible hardware - I don’t have that type of hardware so someone else may be better able to explain those constraints. My desktop is a bit on the old side LOL.

But anyway in the future you should download media with the HDR tag or media without any DV/HDR tags.

PS - If you run your media through something like mediainfo and give us the output that should give a more accurate idea of your issue but I’m pretty sure you just happened to have downloaded a DV only file.

EDIT - On second thought some playback software seems to support DV tonemapping nowadays. It’s been a while since I tried testing that myself, seems easier just to avoid DV only media. Maybe double-check that the playback software you are using supports DV tonemapping and figure out how to enable it.

Yeah I was just about to comment the same, that app has already been replaced in the Apple App Store at least for iPads and auto nuked the old configurations. Created a ton of confusion when people lost all their old remote settings and/or couldn’t even find the app on the work iPads.

Just searching for it gets a bit silly since that new app is literally called Windows App. I’d be searching for “remote” something but nope, that’s not what it’s called anymore.

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.

Strange, are people really arguing that? Back in 2020 Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit and asked for his seat to be replaced with a black candidate. Say what you want about the guy but he doesn’t seem that out of touch with America’s racial issues.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/index.html

I don’t have any issues with the guy but IMO the Digg thing may end up going nowhere if they’re really planning on relying on AI for moderation, just seems like like a bad idea overall

https://www.theverge.com/social/624073/digg-relaunch-2025

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).