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Cookiemonster
Footballguy
Not sure which build you're on. I've been too lazy to change from the BMAN build but on it, it is in sub-categories under MAINTENANCE. Same menu bar as FAVORITES, LIVE TV, MOVIES, etc.
Buzzbait
Footballguy
Buzzbait
Footballguy
Exodus used to be my go to but lately I've been going to SALTS as my #1 and getting better results. Now if you have a Real Debrid acct (as Nutter Butter mentioned above) then Exodus would be golden.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
So I decided to give Real Debrid a shot and not a single cocksucking link works in Exodus.
NEAT SOFTWARE
NEAT SOFTWARE
ragincajun
Footballguy
So say I have a bunch of DVDs with the digital copy feature. How the hell do I get them on a hard drive?
Brady Marino
Footballguy
I'm trying SALTS and even that is not working. It does this lovely thing where it works for a second, and then looks like it's going to play, then gives up after a second.
ILUVBEER99
Footballguy
are people really having trouble with Exodus? So far i haven't had any issues but most of the feeds are in SD. is it just the HD feeds that are the problem?
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Maybe it's just me. Maybe its the fact that Kodi is meant for little fire sticks and not $1,000 gaming machines. 
ILUVBEER99
Footballguy
i really haven't watched a ton on it lately, so it could be that i just haven't noticed. Sometimes i do have to try a few different streams before getting a good one.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
For one episode of Supergirl, I got to watch about 12 minutes of it, but it took me about 3 hours because of the buffering and trying to find a link that didn't suck donkey balls.
I don't recall having issues on my old PC, so maybe Kodi just doesn't like my high-level PC very much. I have a 3TB hard drive, so I can always BitTorrent to high heaven. I just wish Kodi wasn't so ####### hard to deal with.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Uninstalled, did a clean install, and this time, I didn't install Titanium. Set up Exodus, SALTS, etc manually, did the Real Debrid authorization in URL Resolver, and it would seem things are finally working.
Thinking something was borked with Titanium.
Thinking something was borked with Titanium.
ragincajun
Footballguy
Handbrake it or is there another wayragincajun said:
Cookiemonster
Footballguy
About to load up a Fire Stick for a friend. Is Titanium still the preferred build, or is it falling out of favor?
NutterButter
Footballguy
Are you clicking on the real debrid links? Tons of 1080p and HD links that pretty much all work for the shows I've watched recently like Fear teh walking dead, dice, narcos and true detective. Not sure if exodus always did this, but when you click on a link and by chance it doesn't work, it automatically keeps trying other links until it finds one that works. For 4 bucks a month, this setup is absolutely perfect.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
There are a ton of dvd/blu ray ripping sw options out there. I use Handbrake because it is free and does an excellent job.
Handbrake has one issue though, it does not decrypt the DVD's. I use a seperate piece of sw to first rip and decrypt the dvd and then use Handbrake to encode.
After saying that, I don't think that was his question though. He was not asking about ripping, I think he just wanted to put the already included digital copy that comes with many DVD's and Blu Rays on his computer.
@Ragin CajunYou might be over thinking it if that is all you need to do. Just put the digital copy dvd in your computer and launch it. There should be a simple menu system that asks you what you want to do with the file. Here is a FAQ
http://digitalcopy.go.com/faq.html
munga30
Checkin' my email
I'm ready to cut Fios back to just ISP. I have
- a digital antenna,
- Xbox one and 360,
- a Raspberry Pi kit still in the box, and
- a desktop box from some office environment that I got for free and am not using; its likely underpowered but I really have no idea
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Yup. Still wouldn't open.
Like I said, I reinstalled everything and left Titanium alone and, while I have basically Vanilla Kodi again, movies and shows work again. Watched a Real Debrid movie on SALTS yesterday and it was pretty flawless!
Craig_MiamiFL
Footballguy
I don't know if still preferred build as I don't actively search alternatives when I'm satisfied with something. I'm keeping Titanium until it falls apart. Very clean simple build and easy to navigate.Cookiemonster said:
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Just have AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD running in the background and use whatever transcoder (handbrake) you want.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Tell me about it. I tried watching the walking dead live once last year. Never again.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Tick
Footballguy
I'm getting great feeds for the Copa America games. My first choice is Adrian Sports in the Copa America section, but it's not always up to date. When it's not, I hunt around... but have been able to find a solid feed for my chosen game each night of the tournament so far. I didn't expect it to be this good.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Just realized that exodus has all 10 seasons of sponge Bob square pants. This thing has everything.
The 6/7/16 update is telling everyone to fresh start and reinstall the repo fresh. So, it was broke and maybe it might work for you now.
Not a chance. You're timing was just bad. I say give it another go. My htpc smokes the stupid firestick.Maybe it's just me. Maybe its the fact that Kodi is meant for little fire sticks and not $1,000 gaming machines.
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Brady Marino
Footballguy
Went ahead and ran Fresh Start in Kodi, downloaded Titanium from the Daily Updates Wizard repo, set up Real Debrid, and tried videos in both Exodus and SALTS. Both seem to work pretty well now.tonydead said:
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Thanks to tonydead for putting this all together:
First over the air channels (OTA). You can get, and maybe already do, all the local channels OTA in high definition. You’ll also get more than you suspect if you haven’t tuned in to OTA for many years, most places have at least 40 channels available. All you need for this is a HD antenna and a 21st Century tv. Very few flat panel tvs were ever made without an HD receiver so the only tvs you would have to buy a HD receiver box for are the old CRT tvs if you still have any. To help you find out how strong your OTA signals are and where to point your antenna go here: Link.. the strength of the signal will help you determine what type of antenna you need. Follow the directions at the bottom of the website page after you've found the signals for your address.
Recommended Roof mount models: Vinegard
Recommended Indoor models: Mohu Leaf
When you have everything hooked up, connect the antenna coax to the coax input to each tv and scan for channels. A couple of notes about coax; the longer the runs the more your signal degrades and you’ll also lose another 9db every time you go through a splitter. High quality cable and connectors count too. If you use a roof antenna where cable runs are long and have more than one split look into amplifiers for the signal.
Everything Else:
For everything else you’ll need a secondary devise to stream the streaming services that are vailable. Let’s take a look at your choices:
Home Theatre Personal Computer (HTPC). This is the best device because it can do everything, however, it will cost more and takes some tech savvy to set up. The advantages are Personal Video Recording (PVR) OTA, movie and show streaming over your home network and will include a OTA channel card. (Most people overlook this last advantage. If you use OTA with any of the tv devices like Roku or Firestick they do NOT come with a coax-in so you end up having to switch inputs to switch back and forth from OTA and your other channels/services.) You can build your own HTPC, convert an old computer you might have on hand or find one of the many that are commercially available.
Roku 3, this is probably your best bet for a plug and play devise.
Firestick. These are Android and they are left open for 3rd party development and applications. You can “sideload” any .APK application, even those not found in the google store.
TV Boxes. There are many boxes that offer a nice in between HTPC and Roku/Firestick including Amazon’s Fire TV and Roku 4 both available supporting 4000K. These add some additional features like limited internet access and games. Generally speaking the sticks are wifi only and sometimes not as responsive as the Roku/Fire boxes.
XBOX/Playstation. If you’re a gamer most of the popular services are available to stream through your gaming console.
Streaming devices update: Roku 4 and new versions of Fire TV available.
Streaming Services:
Playstation’s Vue. For $30/month (unless you are in one of the role out cities where you get local channels, but have to pay $10 more a month) you get around 60 channels including espn, espn 2, amc, Discovery, several news channels, etc. Plus you can buy higher tier packages with more channels up to around 100 channels. Vue, though, unlike Sling TV below is limited to playstaion and amazon fire devices currently.
Sling TV. For $20/month you get 23 channels and counting including espn, espn2, amc, food network, A&E, history channel, TNT, HGTC, etc. Plus you can buy packages for an additional $5/month whose categories include news, kids, or movies to add more channels. You can also get a firestick for free or a Roku for cheap with a prepaid 3 months.
Netflix. Netflix huge database of available movies still towers over anything Hulu or Amazon Prime offers. Surprisingly though where Hulu and Amazon once might have an edge for tv shows Netflix is excelling with its Netflix Original Series that are prime time quality shows available only on Netflix.
Hulu and Amazon Prime. For past shows and movies these two services are about equal. However, if you order more than once or twice a year from Amazon the $99/year for free shipping includes a subscription to Amazon prime and makes this a choice a no-brainer.
Hulu Update: Hulu has launched several of its own Original Series tv shows. They also claim to have more of a movie library than Netflix now.
HBONOW. Hbo became the first major cable subscriber channel to offer streaming services without a cable provider subscription. It is available through SlingTV for $15/mo or you can get it stand alone for the same price. Showtime and others have quickly followed suit.
Streaming Services Update: Directv and Youtube television streaming services coming soon.
Plex:
Plex is a server for your computer that if you have anything recorded; tv shows, movies, music, home movies you can stream them to your Roku, firestick, phone or ipad through the Plex app.
FreeTV:
Maybe you’ve heard about something called Kodi. Kodi is open source home theatre software that you can install on computing devices like a HTPC. Being a home theatre software it allows for installation of third party streaming apps like the streaming services noted above. But, there is something more. There are other addons out there that find an abundance of streams that are available on the internet. With the right combination of addons the availability of streams for previously recorded tv shows and movies is unlimited. There are also addons for live tv and sports, however, the live tv streams quality and reliability seem to vary more than the previously recorded content so your mileage may vary.
Currently the most popular and reliable addon for tv shows and movies is Exodus. Follow this guide to install Kodi and then Exodus onto a firestick.
1- Download the ARM version for Android here.
2- Sideload it onto your firestick by following this.
3- Install the fusion installer by following this.
4- Then addon installer.
5- Currently the best addon is Exodus.
Kodi Update: There is an easier way to install and update Kodi without having to sideload. Follow the first half of this video: Link
There are also custom builds available that make customizing Kodi and installing all the addons you’d ever want in one single installation. There is one on the second half of the video above and another popular one showed in this video: Link
Hardware Update:
Recommend minimum wifi router of 802.11n specifications for wireless streaming.
Recommend cable modem of DOCSIS 3.0 or later mainly because most internet service providers don’t support anything less.
Here is a Link to the latest guide. I added hyper links to all the websites and some other stuff. If there are any source locations for repos, builds, or addons that people want or use and think would be great for other people let me know and I'll add them.
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Xfinity update. Apparently my promotion rate expired and my internet bill want way up. 
Went into xfinty store like last time and no dice. Told me to call retentions department, yeah right like I want to be like those morons in the directv thread. Called to play the game and the only deal the offered was to give 75Mbps for $59 for 12 months and I have to take the HBO plus streaming package. It involves a box they send you so that you can hook up and stream. . I told them I don't want that ####. It would be the smart thing to do, but, I don't want to keep making trips back and forth, I just want one reasonable rate. The normal rate for 75Mbps is $74 and if you forget to send the stupid box back it jumps up to like $90. I can always get 75 for 75 and will stick with my 50 for 60 right now because I'm locked in and they know it. (I'm really getting 75 anyway because the 50 doesn't exist anymore). 
Long story short: The ISPs are onto the game and they are pimping their own streaming service to get any deals. Expect to pay about $1 per 1Mbps in the near future.
PS. Century Link has lower rates in my area, but, they require a contract and they aren't available in my neighborhood anyway. Comcast is my only option.
Went into xfinty store like last time and no dice. Told me to call retentions department, yeah right like I want to be like those morons in the directv thread. Called to play the game and the only deal the offered was to give 75Mbps for $59 for 12 months and I have to take the HBO plus streaming package. It involves a box they send you so that you can hook up and stream. . I told them I don't want that ####. It would be the smart thing to do, but, I don't want to keep making trips back and forth, I just want one reasonable rate. The normal rate for 75Mbps is $74 and if you forget to send the stupid box back it jumps up to like $90. I can always get 75 for 75 and will stick with my 50 for 60 right now because I'm locked in and they know it. (I'm really getting 75 anyway because the 50 doesn't exist anymore). Long story short: The ISPs are onto the game and they are pimping their own streaming service to get any deals. Expect to pay about $1 per 1Mbps in the near future.
PS. Century Link has lower rates in my area, but, they require a contract and they aren't available in my neighborhood anyway. Comcast is my only option.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Always thought that was too good to be true. $1 per Mbps is fine with me but I pay more than that as there's no $25 for 25. I pay 60 for 25. I could pony up an additional 5 bucks and pay 65 for 60, but I don't have a speed issue and I'm not giving those bastards one cent more for something I don't need. 
Regardless, 75 bucks (60 bucks for internet, 10 for my sports service and 5 for a real debrid) is just fine with me to get access to all the sports, movies and tv shows I desire.
Regardless, 75 bucks (60 bucks for internet, 10 for my sports service and 5 for a real debrid) is just fine with me to get access to all the sports, movies and tv shows I desire.
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
No ATT option?Xfinity update. Apparently my promotion rate expired and my internet bill want way up.
Long story short: The ISPs are onto the game and they are pimping their own streaming service to get any deals. Expect to pay about $1 per 1Mbps in the near future.
PS. Century Link has lower rates in my area, but, they require a contract and they aren't available in my neighborhood anyway. Comcast is my only option.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
That is kind of an ignorant statement to make considering the fantastic deals we have all received from DTV over the years just by making a phone call.
Perfect example. They've got you convinced you're actually getting a good deal. Not to mention you get to sign a contract so you can get the exact same treatment from them next year.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
The deals they offer are very good and fair but you are obviously biased and just wish to insult people so I guess I will end the conversation here.
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NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Amazon Fire TV has dropped its price from $99 to $85. I don't know if this is a fathers day sale or not but if you are looking for one, this is a nice price from what I have seen.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U3FPN4U/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U3FPN4U/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Best news app on Roku? Tried to add CNN but no go for TWC login
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Crap, I was thinking of getting this but from what I can tell it can't handle something as basic as an MKV file. How the heck do we have software in 2016 that does not accept such a widely used container class?NewlyRetired said:
I think I might just wait to see what comes first, Roku support for Vue or Amazon Fire support for MKV.
Haven't tried it, but, if you download the VLC for Fire app you shouldn't have any problem playing MKV files with it.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I was talking about the native ability to play MKV files so that they can be streamed via Plex. I don't think Plex will work with another app on the Fire box but I will look into it just in case.
Yes, you should. For best results keep cable lengths and splitters to a minimum. You'll want to make sure all connections including splitters and cable are in good condition. If you don't get the results you expect you can buy signal amplifiers to help out.
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