This is like PopcornTime on steroids. You can browse the catalog by genres, directors, actors, writers, ratings, time periods or specific years and mix them all. Stream in HD and Full-HD + get subtitles for all movies.
The catalog is decentralized and always online. The moviepanda app doesn't rely directly on any website or web service being online in order to work, in fact Moviepanda doesn't even host a movie catalog of any kind. Each Moviepanda installation finds movies and movie metadata on its own and then shares this information with the network so the content is always available even when the sources go down.
What do you all think? Can this exist or will it be killed?
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@bramk Most likely depends on if content providers want to create issues. If they want this thing to die, then they will have an uphill battle ahead of them win or lose. I'm rooting for them, but the realist in me says no it will not make it through the future legal battles.
@lalleclausen I did some quick checking, it looks like it was writing the file to my disk as it played (though potentially necessary for streaming, I'm not really sure about that) and when I was watching my computer was slowly upping the file (while obviously quickly downloading the file).
If you mean true seeding in the sense of seeding once you have the complete file, it seems unlikely to last for long—it can't keep files very long or the entire premise of the app is ruined. It's almost assuredly going to upload bits of the file the entire time you are watching.
FWIW my experience was not great, I have a great connection and the video I watched was dropping key-frames after a few minutes. I assume it'd have been better to just download the file and wait 7 minutes to start my movie.
@willimholte Thanks Will.
I ask mainly because of legal reasons, in some European countries they have become very effective at snooping seeding activity including legal consequences.
So what exactly do you mean by "my computer was slowly upping the file..."?
@lalleclausen I didn't dig into specific app use but just watched network traffic overall. Before starting a film my computer was Upping/Downloading at .5/.9 kbps, after I started a film it was something like 30/900 kbps. Often when I'm using a bit torrent app it'll be more equal (something like 900/1.5)
*edit So I'd say if you're worried about that this app should be avoided.
@altryne because it contains VLC 2.1.5 embedded within the app — which accounts for 120MB. The MoviePandaApp, in contrast, weighs in around 70MB. It also appears to embed a webkit rendering engine, which is also 70MB. Lots of heavy dependencies in here.
Look like this project distribute illegal content. Bcs they are involve us to that process (they save files on our disks) we are a subject of legal actions from content distribution companies. Not looks like user-oriented project ;)
So it worked and we are up and running really easily. I thought it might be like a torrent-esque file sharer, however the movies are streaming instantly in HD... Awesome.
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