[META] Linux tools | Megalinks MegaDB

thunder2132 | 13 points | Apr 19 2017 17:46:42

[META] Linux tools | Megalinks MegaDB [META] Linux tools

Hey guys,

I'm looking to move my downloading box to Linux Mint, and one of the bigger hangups is downloading from Mega. I've installed the official megatools package which includes megadl (a command line based downloader) which works, but it is horribly slow. The fastest I've seen it download is 250 KB/s. There's also a Megadownloader 0.4 .deb package, which is in another language and locks up when I try to add a link.

Finally, I tried running MegaDownloader 1.7 installed through Wine, which installed, but wouldn't launch.

Anyway, are any of you guys using Linux Mint or Ubuntu and gotten a downloading tool to work?

[-] starbuck93 | 4 points | Apr 19 2017 23:25:24

I've used megatools and also mega-cmd and both seem to work great depending on the time of day, network congestion and the weather man's prediction.

[-] [deleted] | 3 points | Apr 19 2017 17:52:49

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[-] thunder2132 | 1 points | Apr 19 2017 18:19:46

Got it installed, it works, but it caps out at 365 KB/s. I tried the same link in Windows Megadownloader 1.7 and got 3.4 MB/s.

[-] chagmed | 3 points | Apr 19 2017 18:54:51

In Settings make sure "Speed Limit" is unchecked

[-] thunder2132 | 3 points | Apr 19 2017 20:12:03

It was unchecked, but that said, I left the download going and it eventually jumped up to 8.6 MB/s, which is near the max my connection can do. Thanks!

[-] sunny836 | 3 points | Apr 19 2017 18:37:03

I use megatools on ubuntu and megadl to download all the stuff. It works perfectly fine and gives me around 3-6MBps depending on my network.

[-] CastFX | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 22:39:29

Does megatools have a limit of GB/day like JDownloader?

[-] sunny836 | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 22:44:37

I don't think so.. I haven't checked the limits of it yet. But I didn't had any problems downloading around 100GB in a day. That was my max I think 🤔

[-] CastFX | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 22:48:03

Guess not, usually it stops at 5GB every 3h for me. I need to check if arm is supported by megatools

[-] sunny836 | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 22:52:26

The download limit problem might not be with Jdownloader , it might because of Mega 5GB download limit. I am not sure about that arm support too.

[-] thunder2132 | 1 points | Apr 19 2017 20:12:43

Very weird, I haven't seen it break 600 KB/s, but will try again. It's nice to get the downloads going with SSH.

[-] sunny836 | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 22:42:11

Yup.. It feels good with working on terminal. Write a script and let it do the work..

[-] thunder2132 | 2 points | Apr 19 2017 23:12:48

My eventual plan is to also learn the command line or write a script for Handbrake to encode the way I want it to. Right now I'm re-encoding almost everything I download manually through the GUI. It'd be really nice to just download the movie and immediately kick off the conversion.

[-] Seegras1 | 2 points | Apr 21 2017 07:42:48

re-encode? You do know you might just need to convert the container (with mkvtoolnix)? On the other Hand, I do this as well. All I want is Matroska-containers with H.264 (or H.265 if it already is) with AAC. I don't recode the AAC (if it already is), but everything else.

[-] thunder2132 | 1 points | Apr 21 2017 09:49:53

I'm re-encoding a lot of my back catalog from x264 to x265 to reduce disk space usage. My hard drives aren't going as far as they used to, and why do I need a 4+ GB copy of a movie I've already seen laying around in storage forever when I can get it down to 1 GB and still enjoy it?

[-] Seegras1 | 2 points | Apr 21 2017 10:35:52

Same here, although I don't do x265 yet. The encoder is just incredibly slow, and hardware support for playing back is also quite rare, making it quite CPU intensive in every way.

[-] thunder2132 | 1 points | Apr 21 2017 14:18:51

My media streams from a Plex server which is converting it there. So yeah, high CPU usage for the server, but it's dedicated to that, so I don't care one bit. I do agree that the encoder is slow, but for certain movies that I have that are 20+ GB and I can shrink them without much notable loss of quality, I'm going to go for it.