Offcloud.com (Stremio + Real-Debrid (Slower) Alternative) Lifetime Subscription US$36.19 (~A$55.33) @ Offcloud via StackSocial

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Look, it's not a great product… But when it's lifetime for $60… If you want absolutely everything cached and a 30,000 file plus library, you'll still need Real Debrid…. But for the odd stream, this will work.

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Real Debrid is about US$32/year, so it's a year real debrid or 'life time' of this. It's worth if if you're not after running a huge plex server.

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  • +4

    Hmm comments about it in the Stremioaddons subreddit don't sound promising

    • Yeah it's very low quality, it's about enough speed to stream (ie with streamio) and not much more. Not like RD where it maxes out 1Gbps with CDNs everywhere.

  • +1

    use a US vpn. Works great!

    Lifetime isn't actually forever. It's 100 years :D

    • +1

      Actual debrid services are a lot better, they have huge caches (RD has 35,000 YTS movies cached and they download at 800Mbps), but this should be just enough to stream media using streamio or similar

      It’s sadly very slow, I tested downloading a file to my OneDrive through it and firstly it doesn’t chunk (so full download, THEN full upload), and the upload speed was insanely slow. About 200MB before I cancelled it after 20 minutes.

      For the price and it will serve a purpose for some though, probably not for me because I’ve got multiple virtual servers and still have Office 365 dev )25 free 5TB OneDrive accounts)

      • I just use it for lag free streaming. Just select OC+ and you should be good. Everything else is mega slow tho.
        For $50, I think it's great!

    • Also, avoid the GST surcharge by using Proxy / VPN, random US address (ideally state without sales tax) and Revolut virtual card (I used a previously unused card number).

  • +3

    The only ozbargain approved paid piracy. I like it.

    • +1

      If real debrid did a deal id post that too.

      I switched to Netflix when it first came out, but now it’s like $100/mo for all the streaming services to have any kind of decent variety of content

      • Maybe one also skips being tracked / profiled by those streaming services, if that matters to anyone.

        I, for one, won't touch spotify (or similar) for this reason.

  • Can someone sell me on this. I remember seeing this listing and thinking it would be good to get if it came back but I'm looking and I'm not sure if I still want to get it.

    • +13

      Don't. Put your ~AU$55.33 towards RD.

      • Or TB

        • How is TorBox these days?

          • @CommanderCrumbcake: Still slower than RD unfortunately. Seems to work fine during network off-peak periods but stutters otherwise. The same cannot be said of RD

            • @D S N: Torbox recently added Sydney CDN and speed should improve. Did you try before or after it was added?

              • +1

                @Think: Been comparing the 2 for the last 2 weeks. Speed is somehow better using their US CDN locations than switching to the Sydney location - even though I am based in Sydney! 😂
                Again though, RD is MILES ahead

                • @D S N: Interesting. I am in Sydney and will compare TR and RD on Stremio I didn't know you can select a CDN with TR.

                  • @Think: Correction: TR should be TB.

            • @D S N: Speed isn’t a major issue for me but their cache size is tiny, not even 1/10th… and files drop off so often. Plus less community support so less plugins etc

          • @CommanderCrumbcake: 2,000 YTS movies cached vs 30,000 1080p and 3,500 4K on RD.

            Plus RD has DMM to find cached versions of essentially anything and never have to wait. Instantly delivered via their CDN at well over 500Mbps

      • I already have rd but I kinda wanted a backup think

    • I used this as a yearly subscription for about 7 years. Purely as an offsite downloading box. It would then upload to my cloud storage
      It was really good. But in the past 1 year I’ve switched to RD and it’s miles ahead

      • RD doesn’t support transfers to cloud does it?

        I use RD as an rclone mount with Plex (so I can visualise all my Linux ISOs)

  • +6

    That's $55 down the drain if anyone's thinking of taking this

    • Yeah for many it will be. If you’re only after a service that you can use with streamio it’s just enough for that, but no thrills to it.

      I personally would prefer a year of RD instead

      • Did you face any buffering using Stremio via Offcloud.com?

  • +7

    I bought this in the last deal. $50 down the drain. It rarely works, has weird limitation on IPs accessing it (if your streaming device’s IP changes, it locks access if total count of IPs exceeds 3, including the IP of device used to configure it). Save your money and it put it towards RD.

    • +3

      Why don't you add a down vote of you've experienced this? It what's it's for

      • For some it may be enough, there’s still a use case. Just not worth it for most

        • Fair enough

      • I thought neg was for deals from a $$$ saving point of view. It’s probably a deal, but the offered service is generally bad.

        • There’s guidelines on negs, it’s more if it’s not the cheapest available. It’s definitely not a very high quality product like RD but it’s priced accordingly and in the past I signed up to a paid plan (not on a promotion) and they refunded pretty quickly when I had issues, so no major issues with the retailer for me

          https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/help:voting_guidelines

          People could still vote under that if they’ve personally had issues or horror stories, but otherwise it’s a low quality product at an equally low price. Not great for everyone, won’t replace RD or alternatives directly, but for purely just use with streamio it would manage enough speed to not buffer I assume.

          • @Dyl: Just regarding “buffering”, it hasn’t been great for me.

            I have tested it multiple times with different streams, and it has always struggled both in finding and streaming it. I don’t recall watching even a single stream on it.

            • +2

              @arby: Maybe isn't worth it then if it buffers, I only tested briefly and it maintained enough speed that it shouldn't buffer at least but no where near RD speeds.

              RD has something like 40Gbps in Sydney; they'll almost always max out your internet speed.

              https://syd1.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar here's a test link for RD Sydney, 50MB/s (400Mbps) when I get only ~460Mbps to Melbourne on speedtest.net currently. (It's meant to be a 50Mbps plan, but on cable it somehow bypasses that)

              For like-to-like comparison, I got 45MB/s from BinaryLane Sydney looking glass test file - so RD is insanely high throughput.

              Offcloud doesn't have test links and their closest proxy is Singapore, which happens to have a 'network issue' right now… So instead I tested with a Netherlands looking glass test download through their Netherlands proxy, direct was 1.5MB/s and proxied was a little slow to start as they buffered it, but got to 4-6MB/s - just enough for most 4K stream encodings. Note this was with HTTP test files, not torrents. Torrents may be slower again, so not really sure.

              It's definitely a budget solution at best, but it'd manage 1080p - just unsure about 4K.

              Edit: Proxying my Netherlands server through them got similar results. Low quality 4k is around 6-8Mbps, with high quality as much as 50-60+, so it'll manage lower quality encoding.

              • @Dyl: That’s another level of due diligence. I wasn’t anywhere close to this level of testing.

                I have tried playing few links on Stremio via OC occasionally every now and then. And just reverted to RD as OC wasn’t acceptable enough for 4K streams.

            • @arby: Does it have any AU CDN?
              If yes, can you select it to stream?

              • +1

                @Think: Closest is Singapore, though their LA server may be better performance depending on your internets peering.

                It's definitely not a great solution, especially for HTTP downloads, but as a torrent proxy it should be enough for streaming

                • @Dyl: I assume Stremio uses torrent proxy and not HTTP.

                  Low quality 4k has no buffering on Stremio via Offcloud.

                  Which apps or sites use HTTP 4k streaming via Offcloud?

          • @Dyl: @Dyl,

            It seems no refund per stacksocial term below. How did you get a refund after you redeemed this?

            "Unredeemed licenses can be returned for store credit within 30 days of purchase. Once your license is redeemed, all sales are final."

    • Had the IP restriction issues too, couldn’t test speeds downloading to my VPS even with a VPN

      RD barely care when I use IPs in multiple countries and 5-10TB a month

  • Just use RD or Torbox

    Torbox is only $3 US p/m.

    • first time hearing about RD, better then usenet and the arr stack?

      • You can tie in Usenet into TB, might be the next tier plan though

      • +1

        better then usenet and the arr stack?

        No. Stremio is easier to setup. But if you've got the knowledge on how to fully automate things with that stack, you're much better off.

        • -1

          How so? I switched to Stremio/RD and never looked back.

        • We went from a pretty automated Usenet + arr stack to stremio+Rd. Haven't looked back. The only thing you'd be better off with is just offline play.

          As for this deal, I would not bother. Just pay the small fee for RD..

      • I use RD API, you can add magnet links without trackers and the majority of the time it’ll have them cached and appear instantly as ready to download

      • I have RD+Stremio & UN & torrents. arr stack + UN + Plex is 95% of my usage. the gaps are filled by the others. RD + Stremio is mostly what gueats staying or kids mates use to aee what's available. With the new NBN plans arr + UN has everything ready in a minute or two.

    • I’d recommend RD over TB any day, having community things around it like DMM and being able to find cached versions of anything instantly is priceless

  • +1

    I tried this, and got too frustrated by lack of streams or speed of loading, then tried real debrid and have never looked back. I honestly would not spend my money on this, doesn't matter how good the deal sounds

    • +1

      Torbox has improved a lot, especially with the new CDNs.

      They also have no limit on sessions/IPs so you can share it.

  • junk.

  • +1

    private trackers+usenet+plex+sonarr+radarr+autobrr+vpn where necessary,

    learn to fish. catch any type of fish you desire.

    • +1

      I used to do this but streamio + rd/torbox is infinitely easy.

      • I've done both, went back to plex and my arr stack.

      • +2

        Plex + RD is insanely good when hosted on a VPS, Nothing like seeing 35,000 movies appear on your Plex server

        By movies I mean Linux ISOs

        • +1

          It is, but how much are you paying for your VPS?

        • one private tracker

          Movies: 366,405

          I have 1000/100 internet - takes no time to download

          • @bohn: The advantage of RD is you can mount it via rclone and have a plex server with 35,000+ movies

    • I just fork out for RD and call it a day, I would pay for Netflix or something but there’s so many services now each services content library is so thin.

  • Weren't there talks of Real-Debrid being cancelled/shut down due to copyright content issues?

    • +1

      Almost a year ago, it's fine.

    • +2

      That was about an year ago. They were served a show cause notice in France (I think). They changed their api almost immediately (which broke torrentio for a while, but then community found a way around it)

    • They got a lot of legal crap thrown their way but ended up just marking certain files as infringing and disabling access to them, haven’t heard anything about it since

      They had to disable their availability endpoint (which allowed bulk checking for cached items), but DMM has a database they maintain on cached items anyway

      • What is DMM?

  • Use RD so you get some semblance of what this is for

  • Lots of positive reviews for RD. I tried RD for 3 months, as an addon to stremio, most of the shows were not found and alot streams were slow.
    Anyone know if there's a better way to get good results with RD?

    • you've probably not set it up correctly. I've had no problems finding shows, even rare obscure 90s ones.

    • You need to use Debrid Media Manager, as you look up shows they add and remove them from your library in the background to see if it’s cached. They also use multiple of their own accounts for checking if content is cached, result is a very large database.

      Almost anything you look up you can find at least a few cached versions in the quality you’re after

      It has entire TV packs cached that have been dead torrents for easily 5-10+ years

  • I started setting up RD and Stremio and then paused thinking about plan prices and stuff. Then my mate showed me HDO BOX app for smart TVs and Amazon sticks. It's free and literally any movie or tv series available. Am I missing out much?

    • RD has essentially anything cached, even entire season packs that haven't had seeders for 10+ years

      It's almost an archive at this point

      • I see. Didn't come across anything that I wanted to watch and it wasn't there, yet. So will stick to it for now. Cheers

  • I have this and have never really gotten it working with streamio its a bummer would have been a good backup to RD, If anybody has some tips that would be great.

  • Any good alternatives to Plex? I bought a one-year subscription last week but couldn’t get it to work on our TVs. I cancelled for a refund. I really like the idea of leaving everything on a central hard drive instead of moving the hard drives between devices, as we do now.

    • @Chris17,

      It seems no refund per stacksocial term below. How did you get a refund after you redeemed this?

      "Unredeemed licenses can be returned for store credit within 30 days of purchase. Once your license is redeemed, all sales are final."

      • No issues with the refund. It came back on my card straight away.

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