Ben Sarmiento
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🕑 Added 2024-11-25 07:40:35 +0000 UTC1. What is RD Cache?
Answer: Real-Debrid cache is synonymous to their storage servers. Every content that their users download are stored so that when another user requests for it, it's not redownloaded again. It is available instantly for other users, and without waiting, you can watch content immediately.
When RD removed their "instant availability" endpoint, we lost the ability to look into which content are available to be watched immediately. A lot of users in Reddit panicked about this, but it doesn't mean that we will lose the content. We just don't know which is which. Yes, they purged some files, but those are mostly cyberlocker files (megaupload, rapidgator, 1fichier, etc.) and hashes from yggtorrent, a private French torrent tracker. Because a lot of Stremio and Kodi addons work through torrents, we are unaffected.
The issue is that this "instant availability" plays a key role in the "instant" experience of Stremio and Kodi and others. Right now, a lot of users have resulted to guessing which torrent is cached. This has resulted to a big influx of torrents being downloaded in RD and they've capped the active downloads now from 42 to 6. I think this is a temporary limit but if you get an error about status code 509 or something similar, just delete your active downloads (failed/error torrents don't count) in https://real-debrid.com/torrents If you are using Stremio or Kodi exclusively, just delete everything in that page.
There's a better workaround here but I'll explain that later.
2. What is DMM (Debrid Media Manager)?
Answer: DMM is an online website that enhances your RD experience (it also works with AD and soon TorBox). It is designed even for phones with small screens. Here I will list down all useful DMM features I've built over almost 2 years.
For Plex/Jellyfin/Emby/Infuse/VidHub users, the most useful feature of RD is that it allows you to manage your library. Your library is what you see on https://real-debrid.com/torrents and how you use it is normally through the WebDAV URL you can find in your https://real-debrid.com/account :
If you've never used this and only cared about Stremio and Kodi, that's also ok and nothing is wrong with your setup. I just care about curation and audio/video quality more than convenience so I use Plex.
There's a lot of features built around this library concept, e.g. Hash lists (content from other users that you can easily add to your own with a single click), clean up tools for deduplication, backup and restore, easily deleting failed torrent downloads, reinserting torrents (in hopes of extending their 'cache life'), etc.
Another important feature of DMM is that it has scraped and indexed a lot of torrents for you similar to Torrentio. In fact, it is done so aggressively and extensively that you'll see a lot of people recommending to check DMM when you can't find it with the normal sources. In DMM, you can search for the movie or show you want, or use your Trakt lists to look for it.
You can also just watch content directly from DMM. It is done through deep linking and this is how Syncler works, but DMM is completely free.
There's also a Stremio addon so you can watch DMM's content in Stremio which I'll discuss later.
3. How does it help rebuild RD's Cache? How do I use the "DL with RD" button in DMM?
Answer: Ok now we will discuss the better workaround. It's simple and already being done on a number of addons.
In Real-Debrid after you've added a torrent (and selected the files you'll download), if it's status becomes downloaded after this, then it's cached. If not, then it's not cached.
We can automate this with bots but the 6 active downloads cap has made this difficult so DMM crowdsources this. If a user clicks on the blue "DL with RD" button and it instantly turns to "RD (100%)" it means the torrent has been downloaded instantly and that information is submitted to a new instant availability database so other users will know that this torrent is cached.
4. Do I need to download DMM locally, or can I use it online?
Answer: It is a website accessible online. It works also as a progressive web app and can be installed locally on your devices.
5. Is DMM maintaining an index to RD's Cache to prevent it from being cleaned up?
Answer: Yes. This is the replacement for RD's "instant availability" endpoint that they removed.
6. What is Zurg and how does it work with RD?
Answer: If you are using RD's WebDAV feature, you might have wished there's something better out there, right? Same experience I had so I built zurg. It is a locally hosted WebDAV server so you need an always-running computer to host it. It will organize your library based on your configs, it will repair broken torrents for you, it will make everything faster because everything is cached locally and in-memory.
7. Can using DMM provide more links in Stremio addons like Torrentio?
Answer: No. DMM has its own Stremio addon found at https://debridmediamanager.com/stremio
8. How can I detect if a torrent becomes uncached in RD?
Answer: At the moment, we don't have a way of knowing this.
9. Is the current RD + DMM setup a temporary fix?
Answer: My development experience with RD since I launched DMM more than a year ago is that everything is temporary. But if you study everything well enough, you'll always find workarounds.
10. Can French authorities use DMM to flag RD as non-compliant and enforce sanctions?
Answer: I'm sure RD has complied last Friday already on what was requested to be removed. On platforms like this, DMCA takdown requests work on specific files. You can only requests for takedown of files you have a copyright of. RD takes action on this even before, and you'll see a "infringing_file" error when you add them. What you see on their cache are files that have not received takedown requests.
11. What is the difference between RD and AD services?
Answer: They're... different companies? Apart from that, not much. They're both debrid services which I like to call "shared seedbox".
12. How can I contribute to rebuilding RD's Cache?
Answer: You click the blue "DL with RD" button and hope for the best.
13. Is there a way to integrate RD Cache with Plex?
Answer: Yes, use zurg.
14. What should I do if DMM isn't finding any cached links on my streaming app?
Answer: You ditch that app and use DMM /s
Depends on what app but some of the addons on those apps (Stremio and Kodi) already have provided workarounds.
15. How long does RD keep torrents cached before they are removed?
Answer: Nobody knows.
16. Can I use DMM with multiple debrid services?
Answer: Yes. Currently Real-Debrid and AllDebrid. Torbox support coming soon.
17. What should I do if RD's cache is still not working for me?
Answer: pebcak
Comments
Red John
Is there any consideration for an DMM addon like Torrentio since, if I'm understanding you correctly, DMM will kinda have its own index which will no doubt have massive amount of cache files knowledge?
