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The way of the Blockbuster 2: Electric Boogaloo (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 74 points 2 years ago

Obscenely true

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Spot on

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 73 points 2 years ago

yeah we're running our own plex server now and it's been amazing. too many price hikes and reductions in quality of service. over it

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

My plex server is the best streaming experience I ever had. Only stopped running it because I just wasn’t watching anything for a good bit. More time on my hands now, so time for a revival.

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 72 points 2 years ago

All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

[-] Fred@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin is better for in home streaming, but I find plex easier for sharing external to family/friends.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

In what way tho?

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Because Plex has that feature built-in with little hassle and Jellyfin does not (for now)

[-] icedterminal@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin gives you 100% control. You're responsible for setting up remote access. Which actually isn't that hard. Several IT and network admins of the community (myself included) hand out documentation on how to do this. Without completely ruining your security.

With Plex, some of the application communication is routed through their network. It requires an active internet connection and you must create an account with them. They have third party analytics embedded, use tracking pixels, beacons and device fingerprinting. Whatever personal data you have supplied is used to serve ads. This being their promoted content that isn't part of your library.

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[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I keep trying, I have an extremely large collection and it keeps falling flat on metadata matching. Especially with anime, yes I have installed the add-ons. They still suck. And for whatever reason it's transcoding performance is nowhere near as good. It also still has an unresolved memory leak issue with a ticket that's been open for a long long time about it. I want to replace Plex but it needs to be with something as good as Plex

[-] araozu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I use jellyfin a lot for anime, no plugins. I just label all my folders like kaguya_sama_[tmdbid-12345].

As long as the The Movie DB id is there, aboslutely no problems indexing.

[-] paris 6 points 2 years ago

I'd like to add that Jellyfin has a provider order that it checks for metadata from. I had some issues until I changed the order to pull metadata from the same provider that Sonarr and Radarr use. Once it checked there for metadata first, everything lined up and I've had exceptionally few issues.

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[-] TRBoom@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I had a lot of trouble jellyfin and anime until I started putting things into season folders, even if they only had one season. So if I had Ano Hana I'd put the episodes in a folder like this

Media Disk/Anime/Ano Hana/Season 1/episodes_here

If it's a movie, then it goes into a folder with other movies.

Media Disk/Anime Movies/movies_here

Once I started doing that, Jellyfin automatically recognized most Anime.

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[-] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Is jellyfin only usable with computers or is there a way to use it with smart tvs/consoles?

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

It should have its own native app, it does for FireTV and Samsung iirc

[-] MannODeath@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Also on Roku.

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[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It has a few clients available for different devices, I'm using the Android TV client for example in my Philips Smart TV

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[-] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 63 points 2 years ago

I have been rekindling my patronage to my county's libraries and archive.org.

Sure, these are DVDs, but they can be upscaled and are easily backed up.

I buy a crap load of books like I have a spending problem, but I get them used from bookstores and thriftstores. Libraries will always have something I can't find, with the added glory of browsing serendipity.

Sure, I like to pirate, but there is more treasure at your ports than you think.

[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Oh man. Ai can upscale DVDs.

Like. I can upscale anything. But damn.

[-] sigh@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't upscale a car.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

CADs do. But upscaled car is called a tank.

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[-] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

It has content from almost every country, not just yours.

[-] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

I feel you misread. I mean what I spelled, county, the collection of cities that define the specific region I live in.

My library card gives me access to many libraries in that county, which yes, has works from people across the globe.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

[-] Xanvial@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

We need more One Piece Live action memes

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I went in blind, not knowing anything about One Piece other than it is a long running anime. Easily my favorite show I've watched in 2023 so far.

[-] SayJess 36 points 2 years ago

All it took for me to take up sailing full time was the removal of King of the Hill from Netflix. I couldn’t find it anywhere at first, so I did the next logical step. I later found out that it was available on Hulu. Asinine. I feel like Hank would have done the same thing, for the principle of it alone.

Plex is so much better than Netflix, or really any other streaming service, in my opinion. I have all of the content that I want, and supplement the rest with my favorite YouTubers.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Maybe not Hank, but Dale for sure.

[-] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

RIP Mr.Gribble

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Pocket sand!

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[-] li10@feddit.uk 34 points 2 years ago

I recently looked at buying NBA league pass in the UK, £100 to watch games that aren’t on at a reasonable time and still full of ads…

Now I’ve set up RSS to download the games, and the uploaders even cut the ads and intermissions.

[-] AnotherOne@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago

[-] Restaldt@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr

[-] cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I understand the sentiment, but Netflix having a monopoly on streaming content wasn't a good situation, either.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 65 points 2 years ago

The ideal solution is multiple competing services with the same content.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

Like music streaming services figured out years ago.

[-] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I'd recommend considering how the recently expired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc. would have applied to streaming services.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the moment Netflix announced House of Cards, the US government should've hit them with this. Could've prevented this streaming mess.

[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 years ago

Does Walmart have a monopoly on kinder chocolate? The idea is to have several distributors each with as complete a catalog as possible. Having such a shattered offers between platforms makes it very noncompetitive against any piracy solution.