Package Details: popcorntime 0.5.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/popcorntime.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: popcorntime
Description: Stream movies from torrents. Skip the downloads. Launch, click, watch.
Upstream URL: https://popcorn-time.site/
Licenses: GPL3
Submitter: ItachiSan
Maintainer: ItachiSan
Last Packager: ItachiSan
Votes: 57
Popularity: 0.83
First Submitted: 2016-03-01 20:36 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-05 13:11 (UTC)

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Sources (4)

Pinned Comments

ItachiSan commented on 2018-07-24 21:01 (UTC) (edited on 2021-06-14 09:35 (UTC) by ItachiSan)

You are free to report issues regarding the packaging here! Please read all the info of this message as they include quite some information.

Be aware that sometimes the package will fail to build because of outdated upstream and updated dependency, which will require me some time to test and solve the problem.

I do also have life stuff, packaging is a free-time activity.

I believe I have an issue that is Arch-related and not upstream related

I too found out only recently this way to debug the app (as of: 2021-06-13), which helps immensely.

Whenever reporting here or on the Github issues, please provide the output of the command:

popcorntime --enable-logging=stderr

In case you are forwarding the log to a file, as the log entries will end in stderr, remember to redirect stderr to stdout

popcorntime --enable-logging=stderr 2>&1 > my_output.log
Info regarding the package
  1. The package uses the sources available at: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop. I am aware of the different clones and branches; I do still believe that this code is acceptable (not affected itself from malware).

  2. This package uses a custom NW.js build provided from the PopcornTime team; essentially, a custom compiled browser. While this won't affect you as it should be used only within the app, you are here informed that I have no power over this component.

  3. The above point stands as the official NW.js Chromium source lacks multiple modern codecs, such as AC3 and HEVC (H.265).

  4. Earlier this package used the official nw.js toolchain provided available at https://dl.nwjs.io/ and the prebuilt FFmpeg library with additional codecs available at https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/ . This was because the nw.js toolchain provided by the PopcornTime team can not be proven as non-malware easily. However, due to point 3, this approach was reverted. You are free to use an older PKGBUILD with the appropriate variable updates to re-enable this, however you will miss support for recent codecs.

  5. In addition, the PKGBUILD won't point to the Git release reference but will also include important commits, for e.g. security reasons or providers changes.

Latest Comments

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bkb commented on 2020-07-23 18:03 (UTC)

Ask to upstream I guess lol

glitxh commented on 2020-07-22 18:24 (UTC) (edited on 2020-07-22 18:25 (UTC) by glitxh)

Can this be ported over to Arch ARM? That would make Arch ARM the go to OS for raspberry Pi's guaranteed ;)

ItachiSan commented on 2020-06-17 20:27 (UTC)

Removing out-of-date flag as I successfully built the package today from scratch.

Archer1X commented on 2020-05-08 08:14 (UTC)

Can't install at all. I think the URL for package source has been taken down by DMCA.

ItachiSan commented on 2020-05-05 17:16 (UTC)

@xolst and all: the Git repository is currently (2020-05-05) not available due to a DMCA.

The package should be working all fine if/after Github restores the repository visibility.

bkb commented on 2020-04-17 07:46 (UTC)

The software works now, I don't know if since the 16th the old version has encountered major issue, but I was used to work with this package and it always worked, anyway ty!

ItachiSan commented on 2020-04-16 22:22 (UTC)

I've updated the package, hopefully that solves all the issues. :)

bkb commented on 2020-04-16 07:57 (UTC)

Anyway since today I experience a Error Something went wrong downloading the update.

je-vv commented on 2020-04-15 03:02 (UTC)

@bkb, it seems there's a 0.4.4-1 binary release, whereas this one is 0.4.1-1, not sure if that's the reason though

bkb commented on 2020-04-14 19:55 (UTC)

why it's flagged out of date? Is there a newer version of popcorntime?