Below, the article will describe the step-by-step setup of Torrserve on Android Tv Box. But first, a brief introduction to the topic. Torrserve is an application for watching movies and TV series from torrents online, without downloading. This method has several advantages over the usual online viewing of movies from websites. The fact is that sites, as a rule, post video content in compressed quality. Even if you open a movie with a resolution of 1080p, the picture will still be worse. By opening the same 1080p movie from torrents, for example in WebDL format, the picture will be much brighter, richer and smoother. The same applies to sound. Torrents contain movies with 5.1, 7.1 audio tracks. Or one film may have several voiceovers, including in the original language. Another advantage will be the almost complete absence of built-in advertising in films.
How to watch torrents on Android Tv Box
To watch torrents online on Android TV Box you will need 3 applications. They can be downloaded from our website and then installed on a set-top box or Android TV. How to install applications on TV Box is described in detail in this article. Download applications to a USB flash drive and install them on the TV Box. So we will need: Torrserve itself, which will later need to be configured a little. A media player that will play videos. If you have a Zidoo or HiMedia set-top box, you don’t have to install the player. The built-in standard player in these consoles is much better than third-party ones. For other set-top boxes and AndroidTV, it is recommended to install Vimu Player. This player works perfectly with different multi-channel audio formats, and supports almost all modern video formats. And the third necessary program is a catalog of movies in torrents. There are several of them: NUM, KinoTrend, paid HD Videobox and Lazy Media Deluxe.
What if it doesn't start?
- Try reinstalling the program again.
- Add Ace stream media to your antivirus and firewall exceptions.
- If the video is constantly slowing down, pause and let it load, you can increase the size of the loading buffer in the options.
We invite you to watch a video about why the program may not work and how to fix it:
Ace stream media is used by many sites to broadcast torrent video and TV. We hope that the article was useful to you and answered your questions.
Download the installation package and run the exe file
Setting up Torrserve on the set-top box
After installing the Torrserve program on Tv Box, run it. If the set-top box runs on the Android 9 or higher operating system, a message about access permission will appear. Click "allow". After this, the Torrserve settings menu will appear, in which we need the “Update” item - click on it.
In the next menu, you need to click “Install the latest version of the server” and wait until it downloads completely.
After downloading the latest version of the server, use the “back” button to return to the previous menu and click on the “Settings” item. In this menu we need to change some settings of the local Torrserve server. Select and click "server settings".
In the server settings menu you need to change several parameters. Preload buffer size - change from 20 to 40 megabytes. Then check the box next to “Disable UTP”. Although this is recommended only for weak devices, it will help reduce CPU load. Just below, change the value from 20 to 25 in the “Connections per torrent” line. And just below in the line “DHT connection limit” change the number 500 to 0. This will allow the program to scan more than 500 movie or TV series distributors at the same time. In general, set the parameters as indicated in the picture below.
Then go back one page and click “Select Player”. A menu will open with media players installed on the Android Tv Box. We recommend choosing Wimu Player or Kodi as the main one, if they are already on the console.
If not, install them.
The fact is that most films in torrents are posted with multi-channel audio tracks. And not all players can process them, even if the sound is output only through the stereo speakers of the TV. For example, MX Player is lighter and simpler than Wimu, but when you open a movie with a 7.1 track, there will be only video, no sound.
Download and install
To a personal computer
Go to the official website of the program https://www.acestream.org/rus/ and download the installer package. The required version is selected automatically.
Download the program only from the developer's official website . This way you can avoid malware and other technical problems.
To install the program on your personal computer, you must do the following:
- Click on the downloaded file Ace_Stream_Media_3.1.32.exe (the numbers are the version of the program, it may be different), right-click and run the file (click open).
- Select a language and click OK. Russian language is present in the list.
- We accept the license agreement and click on the “Next” button. Select the components to install and click “Next” again.
- Select the hard drive on which the program will be installed and click “Install”.
If you are not sure which component is responsible for what, do not touch their installation settings . This way you will avoid problems with the operation of Ace stream media.
Optionally, you can install the TS Magic Player browser plugin from the developer’s website by clicking on the Magic Player section and the install button (2 times). This plugin gives access to lists of TV channels and streams that can be watched through Ace stream media, receiving the list directly from the main Google page.
For Android
To install the application for your Android device, you need to download it from Google Play (via a link on the developers’ website), and you can also find it by the name Ace Stream Media. And click the install button.
Browsing torrents via Torrserve
Having set the default player, close Torrserve and open the program torrent movie directory. For example NUM - No Ui Movies.
Open a movie and click the “Torrents” tab. A list of distributions will appear with a brief description of the file.
The green field indicates the number of distributors. The higher this indicator, the faster the movie will load. Select any torrent and click on it
When you turn it on for the first time, a dialog box will appear in which place the cursor on the “Add and Play” item and click “Always” just below. This is done so that later the system does not ask what to do with the torrent file. If everything is done correctly, the loading of a preliminary buffer of 40 megabytes will begin.
We set this value in the Torrserve settings of the local server. In the future, it can be changed to a different value if necessary. After loading the buffer, the default player will open and the movie will play.
The advantage of this method is that the entire movie or series is not downloaded to the device. Torrserv downloads a small piece of the film and immediately opens it, and then loads more as you watch it. Movies are loaded into the RAM of the set-top box without using a Flash drive, which has a lower resource than the RAM.
Playlist EmpireBOOM
There are 2 sections available in the EmpireBOOM playlist, working through AceStream. This playlist requires setting and activating the MAC address of your TV. The setup is absolutely not complicated, read more here.
AceStream and Torrent TV
AceStream section
AceStream section in the EmpireBOOM playlist
The content here is added manually by playlist administrators. Therefore, there are significantly fewer films and TV series here than in the previous two services. There is no search on torrent trackers. In general, if the previous two options are available, the value of this section tends to zero.
Torrent TV section
Torrent TV section in the EmpireBOOM playlist
Torrent TV is a collection of channels by genre. Here you can find on-air channels, entertainment, music, for adults (18+) and many others. There is even a “Web Cams” section where you can watch the waves in Bali or the residents of New York online. Fans of cable television with a million channels will be 100% satisfied.
Setting up Torrserve Matrix
In Torrserve's Update settings menu, there is an option to Install APK. If you click on it, a new version of the Torrserve program will be installed. In principle, they are the same and work on the same principle. Setting up Torrserve Matrix looks a little different, and there are fewer items to change. After installing Torrserve version of Matrix, open the application. Find the item "Update" and click the "Install/update server" button. After installing the server, go to the “Settings” menu - select the player. Install Wimu or Kodi.
For Torrserve Matrix there is no need to make any other settings; everything is installed automatically for the system to operate efficiently. It makes sense to dig deeper if you have a confident understanding of how networks and protocols work. After setting up Torrserv Matrix, it is advisable to again launch a movie in NUM or Kinotrend and set the “Add and Play” item to the default.
What is this program?
Ace stream media is strictly speaking not one program at once, but several in one. It has the following features and solutions:
- You can watch your favorite video directly from a torrent file thanks to the Ace Stream HD streaming manager.
- There is no need to install any additional players to play content. Along with Ace stream media, a modified VLC player is supplied for playing audio and video (Ace Player HD).
- You can watch IP TV.
HMS Forum
Next, we need to register on the HomeMediaServer forum, from where we will download torrents with podcasts for further broadcasting. It’s quite simple - we come up with a username, set a password and indicate your email, which you will then need to log in to and confirm registration. Let's remember this data - we may still need it!
After you have registered, go to the “Podcasts” section and find the topic you like with podcast files from one or another online television service. And we find in it a message with an attached file of the archived podcast.
