It’s a private tracker. They want proof that you’re a good standing member of some other private tracker. So they’d want to see that you seed and have a good ratio.
They have an IRC chat. If you had skill cracking apps or something they might let you in that way.
Thanks I will learn LXC once I have a new 8 core Intel machine. I also want to hose this website that needs an outdated php/Apache setup so it would be nice to keep that in an isolated container.
I’m in the same boat. My poor HC-2 is struggling on memory running Omada (WAP controller) and HomeBridge, among other things. I use Emby so I don’t need transcoding - supports 4k streaming just fine.
Right now I’m looking at one of the fanless Intel four port software routers, like this one.. But for a machine like that I’m going to use ProxMox to spin up a Firewall/Router/VPN/Networking VM - not sure which OS/image. That will remain separate from my media and web serving. I will probably end up just off-loading the network tasks to the new machine, and leave my HC-2 running as a media server. That way I can restart and upgrade the systems independently. Using ProxMox, it may be possible to move the media services onto a second VM on the same machine, but I’m not sure what advantage that might give me, if any.
Just re-download in a better bitrate and format.
I wish there was a good option. It’s actually legal to re-broadcast an over the air signal, provided it’s not altered in any way (re-encoded).
There should be a live torrent system for OTA TV. Antenna owners could use it to ensure perfect signal. The stream could be divided up by key frames and hashed (as bit torrent is). Any antenna owner would compare their hash to others to check if it was properly received. If not, that chunk could be downloaded instead of using the signal.
Such a system would make it easy to extend to leechers. They could offer a service to the antenna owners: hard disk space. The leechers are the ones who allow DVR service to the antenna owners.
Everybody wins. Antenna owners get perfect signal and they can pause and fast forward through commercials. Leechers get to view the live program without an antenna, and store the stream to repair antenna-owner broadcasts.
https://xdcccatcher.net
Joins all of the active IRC bot channels. Catches and indexes all the bot announcements. Creates a fast searchable index of packs. Also works for packs found on sunxdcc.com