My guy/gal, MAM is one of the easiest places to get a good ratio because it mainly based on getting point from seeding. Actual upload is gonna be pretty low. Just download a bunch of ebooks is you are low on space and just seed. Literally download like 100 ebooks (probably less than 50MB total in space and you’d get like 50-80 points an hour and then you can easily build up ratio by buying upload credits. Lets say you are seeding enough to net you 100 points and hour, if you seed a full day that’s 2400 points and you can buy quite a bit of upload credit for that. If you download more free leech stuff then even more points. I love MAM and its incredibly easy to build ratio this way

I’ll look into this. I appreciate it. Probably down the road ill set up True NAS or set up some sort of thing with ZFS but have to kinda get more acquainted with all the programs and stuff associated with their use.

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Thanks. I will look into this. I think I have youtube-DLG installed and forgot about it. I’ve hear this is super good and useful i just feel like it may be over my head lol Gonna try and install and become more familiar with it

I use subscene and opensubtitles for when I need srt files. You can also look into addicted (spelled wrong).

As someone has brought up SubtitleEdit (program) is super useful is you need to OCR some PGS/SUP (bluray subtitle formats) files. You can also sync an existing SRT to your video file if push come to shove (this is usually my last resort though because its may be a lot of work if it isnt just a simple sync shift - doing line by line is awful).

Anna’s Archive & Z-Lib. You can search by language. I cant speak on how big/good its German catalogue is though.

I have been using it for the past few years. I haven’t had any issues so far.

My rule of thumb is to just wait till the blu-ray is released. Ill either get a remux or a very solid encode. Web-DLs can usually be found earlier than the blu-ray release too (usually like month, or a few weeks, before the BD release). I’m not saying rips or cams cant be “good quality”, but I would rather watch an actual scene release or closer to the quality of a physical counterpart. I’d rather be patient and just wait for better releases.

I think it’s the same as real. Multiple people can use but they ALL have to have the same public IP/network. To be honest, I think that’s gonna be a rule for most of these debrid services. As for the whole email thing, I am not sure. Sorry

I use All and Real. Real has been very useful because of its larger user base, thus ensuring that many more things are cached and maintained. Also streaming is very easy with other things like Kodi and its addons. AllDebrid also has many of the same things cached as real. Ive had many instanced where things were on All and not on Real. I also think things download faster on All than on Real (but this is just from my experience).

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At the end of the day it’s about what you like, what is available, and how much space you got.

My rule of thumb has been 8GB per hour of content for 4K (I don’t remember where I heard of got this from, so at the end of the day, this is just some arbitrary number). I usually stick to x265 encodes and so far this had been good enough for me. Some prefer the best (untouched remux), but like you mention, these files are huge. Even though I have many drives, I dont want each movie being 70+GB per file. Sometimes I break my rule of thumb and do get “higher quality” (that isn’t a remux). I think the biggest file I have is around 50GB for a x265 2160p encode of a movie where a certain king returns. As with everything, there are exceptions. Just do what you want.

This has been good enough for me. Obviously, the bitrate of audio matters and its format. That, in and of itself, is a whole other issue ( lossless or not, channels, etc…)

Admit to downloading a car and you on a list forever.

I usually download stuff through Nyaa to get .cbz files of full volumes. Of the few times I have had to get a series myself I have used Houdoku. It’s similar to tachiyomi on desktop. I usually rip from Mangadex but have had to manually name folder files to eventually zip into cbz files. This may not be that helpful but just thought it plug in Houdoku to see if it helps with what you need

Edit: Lol I didn’t really read your post well. Yeah, personally, I dont know of any automated solutions, sorry.