Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

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Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:46 pm

Might be illegal where you live. Nevermind.

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wget https://get.popcorntime.io/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.7.2-Linux32.tar.xz
tar -xvf Popcorn-Time-0.3.7.2-Linux32.tar.xz 
# create a symlink, else it doesn't start
sudo ln -sf /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0
cd Popcorn-Time/
chmod 755 Popcorn-Time 
#optional:
#sudo mv Popcorn-Time /usr/local/bin/popcorntime
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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:38 pm

^ 0_o This is revolutionary!
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:33 pm

awesome, thanks!
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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:41 am

yes, ideally used with a VPN. there is a similar plugin to Kodi (XMBC) I may have watched a few films already, also possible direct from the streaming sites.
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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:05 pm

Pretty illegal in Germany, of course. :) I think they are even trying to sue some people here. I never touched it.

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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:43 pm

True, don't use it in Germany :)
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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by snowpensi » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:47 am

did anyone else find they had to install ttf-ms fonts?

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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:03 am

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user@grill:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cabextract libmspack0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cabextract libmspack0 ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 117 kB of archives.
After this operation, 339 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Interesting, not here. (I removed Popcorn again because it was too slow in Old China, but can't remember it needed msfonts - you could try with the PPA in sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/popcorntime/ubuntu trusty main
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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by snowpensi » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:21 pm

Yikes, don't use in USA either, I got a cease & desist email this morning!

I guess I will stick with binge watching OitNB on netflix. :(

ms fonts is an undocumented dependency I read about on the AUR page.

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Re: Popcorn Time - watch movies and shows

Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:24 pm

yeah, there are other ways to illegally watch shit online :D
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