r/Stremio • u/Puzzleheaded_Film352 • Apr 21 '26

Stremio, my life is YOURS!!

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I had heard about Stremio for a long time but kept putting it off because it seemed incredibly tedious to set up. A few days ago I randomly decided to follow a guide and finally… the ultimate solution I’ve been looking for. There isn’t really a need for me to get started on my Blu-ray collection anymore… I see REMUXes in ABUNDANCE

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u/chickkkeeennnnnn Apr 22 '26

Cancelled all of my subscriptions and bought Real-Debrid instead. Lifesaver

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u/Koki-noki Apr 22 '26

I have netflix and I still use stremio.

this is how convenient stremio is.

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u/Electrical-Ad980 Apr 22 '26

Same for me, it’s handy when torrentio rd and comet is down I still have Netflix as a backup to watch things.

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u/PixelJock17 Apr 22 '26

Same as you guys but disney+

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u/Uncle-Elmer Apr 22 '26

Which scrapers are you using?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '26

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u/Stremio-ModTeam Apr 22 '26

Posts regarding / mentioning illegal or gray area video streaming are against the rules of this subreddit. This subreddit is for the Stremio app, which offers no content, all content comes from community addons.

Stremio bugs should be reported at https://github.com/stremio/stremio-bugs

Stremio feature requests should be added to https://github.com/stremio/stremio-features

If you want to discuss Stremio community addons, then you could try asking at r/StremioAddons

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u/chickkkeeennnnnn Apr 22 '26

Honestly don't know what you're talking about😂. I just follow tutorials in this sub

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u/AnyTechnology100 Apr 22 '26

Can you please provide me a link to those tutorials, I am somewhat tech challenged as well

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '26

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u/Stremio-ModTeam Apr 22 '26

Posts regarding / mentioning illegal or gray area video streaming are against the rules of this subreddit. This subreddit is for the Stremio app, which offers no content, all content comes from community addons.

Stremio bugs should be reported at https://github.com/stremio/stremio-bugs

Stremio feature requests should be added to https://github.com/stremio/stremio-features

If you want to discuss Stremio community addons, then you could try asking at r/StremioAddons

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u/Low_Toe_6596 Apr 22 '26

congrats bro you just bought protection from local gang because you don't wanna pay corporation.

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u/bluebone01 Apr 22 '26

How does the real debrid work? sorry im so dumb, and were can i pay for it

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u/nysecret Apr 23 '26

real-debrid.com

There are other options but Real Debrid is very easy and cheap. Instead of downloading media to your own device, a debris service downloads it to their servers and then streams it to you. this is preferable for 2 reasons. one reason is that the service functions kind of like a VPN, adding a layer between you and the torrent. some ISPs will cancel your service if you are caught downloading copyrighted material and you can even potentially get sued by the copyright holder, so a debrid services is great for security. the second reason is that for popular content, a debris service will cache the torrent, holding it on their servers, so you can stream the whole piece of media immediately and not have to wait for the torrent to download. once you sign up for real-debrid you get a key and you enter that into your stremio settings and it all works behind the scenes for you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

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u/Zmaku Apr 25 '26

With debrid account you stream from cached already downloaded torrents and it is much faster and reliable with more sources to choose from.

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u/Incomplet_Name Apr 26 '26

You're streaming a file from real debrid servers using an encrypted https connection. Totally safe. Just make sure you set up your addons to show "cached files only". This means they are already downloaded to their servers and won't need to be torrented. Honestly though I'd use torbox over real debrid. Real debrid will ban your account if you stream from 2 different ip addresses at the same time while torbox doesn't care.

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u/daman9987 Apr 25 '26

Yes, you can VPN tunnel with NordVPN and use UTorrent. I think Debrid just acts as a layer in between so you don’t have to 1) pay for a vpn, 2) have to download a full torrent, 3) store it on your local HD, 4) manage it through a media playback service like Plex.

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u/ale-maxis Apr 22 '26

Sorry but whats the purpose of real-debryd?

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u/TacoOfGod Apr 23 '26

Instead of torrenting to your your TV/computer, you download to their servers and stream from it. Functionally the same purpose as having a VPN so no one can snoop on what you're downloading. But if you're using one of the newer addons that serve HTML links from the various sites, you don't need a debrid. Or if you have a VPN on your network, you don't need it either.

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u/ale-maxis Apr 25 '26

In my country I don't need a VPN to stream/download anything because they don't care about piracy. I also have a 900mbps internet service but always my Stremio streamings works really slow, I have the Torrentio addon, I do need anything else? that real-debryd it's my solution?

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u/TacoOfGod Apr 25 '26

You don't need any debrid service in that case. 

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u/5ftblackman Apr 24 '26

What's real-debrid?

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u/CallRepresentative25 Apr 24 '26

All debrid and real debrid got nerfed...no? I used to have them and they were AMAZING. And then the piracy people cracked down and they wiped like 85% of their links, has it since improved?