2026-10-30 09:56 UTC
Replies (12)
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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2026-10-30 10:04
I have been surprised as fo how many old movies or media in general exists on the Internet Archive, also Daily Motion is a good source for older TV shows
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@Steve@communick.news 2026-10-30 10:08
Look into joining private trackers. It’s a whole thing. A commitment. Real hurdles. But once done, I’ve never looked back.
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@Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-30 10:08
Internet archive?
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@StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-30 10:29
Between torrents, Usenet and the Internet Archive, most western media is findable. And for the really oddball stuff, try looking for a dvd and ripping it.
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@kernelpanic@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-10-30 11:31
sometimes Soulseek
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@shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2026-10-30 14:17
What went wrong with the .m3u8 file? I’ve had lots of success ripping from websites using yt-dlp. For sites it doesn’t have explicit support for, it can fail if it can’t find the stream URL. In those cases, I open the Network tab of Firefox’s developer tools and try to find something that looks like a stream URL, and then copy it out of there and give it to yt-dlp. (Don’t forget to surround the URL in double quotes if the URL contains an &) If you provide the URL you’re trying to download from, I can try to take a look.
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@TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-30 14:27
On private trackers you can make a request for missing content.
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@droolio@feddit.uk 2026-10-30 14:58
I prefer scene releases as there’s a decent quality version in whatever resolution for practically everything - and being properly tagged you can usually find the exact file on places like Usenet/IRC. One trick I use is to search in BiglyBT for the exact file size in bytes as per srrdb, and it often comes up with something (sometimes even several torrents with no seeds that can be swarm merged).
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@MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-31 01:27
emule. For hard to find, it’s the best, imho.
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@bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-31 07:18
Open directory search. www.eyedex.org odcrawler.xyz old movie +(mkv|mp4|avi|mov|mpg|wmv|3gp) -inurl:(jsp|pl|php|html|aspx|htm|cf|shtml) intitle:index.of -inurl:(listen77|mp3raid|mp3toss|mp3drug|index_of|wallywashis
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@tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2026-10-31 08:36
Be the change you want to see in the world. Find a physical copy, rip it, upload it.
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@Sina@beehaw.org 2026-10-31 09:12
You could maybe name the movies you cannot find.