Hey guys, been noticing a number of issues lately with the Popcorn Time experience…
For context I’m currently running 0.4.4 build #446 on Windows and have been trying my best to stay updated as the latest builds come out.
Firstly, the issue of movies not updating. Been stuck with the same set of movies on top for the past month or more. Like a few others on here, I’ve taken the .ru custom API route and that seems to have fixed that particular issue. Though the issue of bad health on all downloads has persisted, across multiple computers, and I’m wondering if anyone else on here has come across this?
If I’m lucky I can connect during the rare windows where there are peers & seeds, and normal amounts too, in the hundreds usually - it’s not like it goes from 0 to 1. It feels like the issue is in the connection to the seeds & peers, as they’re either there or not. And usually not.
This is making it particularly difficult to watch movies and series, as you guys might imagine.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope we can find a solution.
Not come across this problem. The majority of movies/series I’m currently watching have had decent health and it’s only when something isn’t popular does it suffer but that’s to be expected. I’ve tried it with both the default and RU api so if you’re struggling with seeds/peers then it sounds like it’s something on your side is restricting your access. Would your current set-up (ISP, VPN, AV) restrict access to the app?
Latest dev build (#447) could solve the health indicator issue.
In 446, the refresh of health indicator icon, when clicking it, was fixed. But the timeout delay to get the data response was 1 second, with 5 extra attempts in case the seeds number stayed to 0 (or if every trackers timed out).
For me it was working well when not using VPN, but was too short when using VPN. So in short, it was a problem on connection with more latency/slower speed.
Now in dev build #447 someone increased the timeout delay to 2 seconds and there are 4 extra attempts in case it have 0 seeders or timeout.
But BTW test and feedbacks are welcome, so it can be reported to contributors.
Updating everyone here, so you know now :
/u/walterblockland
/u/amiecc
/u/Aky96
/u/yiannis309
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