I'm a streamennial, but I know a few streazoomers, and also few bootreams.
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Strongly reccomend using Jellyfin for your media libraries. Even if you don't have a dedicated server and just want to watch on a pc, it works better than VLC.
Doesn't jellyfin require connecting to a server to even work though? Most VLC features work anywhere without any connection, obviously streaming would require a connection still.
You can fire up the server on your PC and just connect to it; so yeah, it does need a server, but it can be ran and connected to locally, just plug in the IP address it makes into a browser on the machine your running it on. The only reason I personally have a dedicated server for Jellyfin is because I frequently switch operating systems on my main PC
The reason its better is because it unironically has a better frontend than most steaming platforms. The streaming client is the same thing you'd get with a Netflix or a Hulu and it has the basic stuff like saving your place not just in episode but with timestamp, but the cool shit is: it fetches descriptions, thumbnail, cast, genre, and etc for anything you throw at it, and you can filter your library by genre, the director, and even the cast members, and it fetches this automatically upon it scanning new media.
There's not anything that hulu/Netflix do that Jellyfin can't, it categorizes seasons under shows in the same way, and all it requires is that the names are somewhat right. I've only had to fix the names of like 3 pieces of media, and I usually just throw the raw torrent filename at the server. Just make sure you have all of the episodes in a folder with the same name as the show.
You also should be able to connect any device on your network to the Jellyfin server with just an IP address, even though its not running on a dedicated server. You can connect to it on your phone, and if you have a smart TV anywhere in your house it almost definitely has a Jellyfin app; i got a roku in my bedroom and an androidtv in my living room and they both work fine.
I will say tho, this will only work if everything is on the same network. Depending on your router, you MAY be able to port forward the server to (a) specific outside IP address(es); if you want to share it with a different trusted network. You could also just have the port open, so anyone with your IP address could connect, but I cannot understate enough how bad of an idea this is. In general, if you wanna connect from anywhere, it will require VPN bullshit and its honestly really not worth it IMO.
Overall, I think Jellyfin is better than VLC unless its being ran on a laptop, its fr like if Netflix had access to your private library.
Lmk if you have any questions :)
Ok but that sounds based as hell
Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen, I'm not smart or sexy enough to commit copyright infringement.
100% of GenX'ers in this household.
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Nice.
Nice!
Sorry but I'm streamennial not striminal.
Awwww, that's so cute how they side-stepped "... what they want, how they want, "; You know? That bit of it all that we can't buy their way because they won't sell it to us.
Sell full quality 4k video files, with no DRM, and I’ll never use a sketchy streaming site ever again.
I haven’t infringed on a single game that’s available on GoG
Who is "we"? I have to know who came up with this amazing addition to the English language.
Looks fake, but still funny af.
They are saying that like it is a bad thing.
Bad for shareholders maybe.
I'll start paying when they stop being racist with their region locks.
Nice.
My posse don't walk around like striminals or flex like big gorillas
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Yeah, I used a modified Spotify client without ads, uninterrupted skipping, etc. to set random songs as my alarm. I download what I like through various sources, music wise, however to find new artists I use YouTube Music so have a client for that too (I have random tastes, and over the years got into artists who never really made it big at all: YT is good for the very obscure stuff most folks would call "people screaming into the mic" which, I mean, I guess it is but it could be music too..)
Hell yeah
Look man, not one goddamn person who worked on Xam'd is getting a red penny from me paying to watch it legally. I'm not gonna reward some corporation whose only contribution was having enough money to buy the rights to make money off of it. Piracy is actually the only ethical way to consume most older media
People actually pay for content?
Only 69%? Nice. Thought it would be way higher though. I mean. The youngest of us are almost 30 now.
So what are Gen Xers who do this called?
Ximinals
YAASSS content:
• Ads/media where 'the man' tries to appeal to young people using their vernacular in a lame, pandering way
• Ads/media that tries to appeal to young people but is self-aware and/or well executed
Ratchet content:
• Children's media and commercials for children's products that don't involve inter-generational pandering (this isn't a place to collect all advertising and media that's aimed at kids) Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network/Disney/etc.
• Text messages, emails, PMs, or other forms of interpersonal communication not sent as an advertisement
