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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.

The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.

Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Difficult is an understatement.

I'm traveling overseas now, and my totally valid Paramount subscription doesn't work in Portugal and I can't watch lower decks anywhere even if I'm willing to double pay for it.

The irony if that I downloaded episodes to watch offline on plane, they're literally inside my phone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait till you hear about YouTube premium making it imposible to watch downloaded videos already on your phone unless it can phone home every 3 days. The videos on your phone, you can't wstc it until you get in touch with daddy google, defeating the point of downloading a video for offline viewing.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] mtpunkty 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Throw a tv tuner in front of a Plex server and you get magic!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, can you use Plex as a DVR then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you need a plex pass but am unsure, as I already paid the 'lifetime' sub before I added a tuner. I think so since the guides aren't free (for plex) but it's been a few years since I researched it all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ye, this is one thing I did for the folks, so there is always new stuff even when I'm not managing it. They have like 20 shows they are slowly recording.

I got the HDHomeRun Extend, 2 tuners in one unit. Slap an antenna on the wall and boom, extra functionality.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also on Roku.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

also on LG smart TVs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need more One Piece Live action memes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe not Hank, but Dale for sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Shesh-shAAAH!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Like music streaming services figured out years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This right here dammit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

There is a difference between 1, 4 and 30 streaming services...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The usurper delivered us from the evil that was cable or nothing.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the enemy. The cycle must repeat

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And a bottle of rum!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

For around two years now I'm using Kodi with Seren and Real-Debrid on my Smart TV and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yarrrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have never paid for any streaming services and will never tbh

Rather support directly than through this anti-consumer bs

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