And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…

(And that “watch similar movies” thing can go to hell too)

ETA:

Jellyfin is great, yes.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    I have the DVD. It’s somewhere in the pile.

    I need to one day develop a DVD/BR/book catalogue app to get even vague idea about what exactly is on my shelves and boxes. It has long since gone unmanageable. At least I know what’s my next major project after NaNoWriMo.

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    Also why I invested in the hardware and software for Blu-ray ripping. I now have a Pioneer drive in a USB enclosure, and can now rip even 4K Blu-rays from any region. So many special features I was missing out on, though a lot of disc releases are cheaping out on them these days.

    Only annoying part about ripping is the freaking maze of playlists on many Blu-rays, especially for Special Features, and none of the player software I’ve tried yet has a feature to tell you what playlist and video file you’re currently watching. So you basically have to rip everything and then check each video file afterwards.

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    My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we’ve done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn’t find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.

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    If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.

    So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.

    This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don’t want your traffic going over the Internet.

    It’s a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don’t always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified — but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!

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      You jest, but reading the user reviews on RT, I can tell a lot of the jokes in this film are lost on the gen-z crowd. Shame, really. But I guess it’s inevitable.

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    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8DC4C117D8B240AAA7796FE0C16645ED76430810&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker2.dler.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fwww.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.moeking.me%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitsearch.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&dn=%5BBitsearch.to%5D+Young+Frankenstein+(1974)+%5B1080p%5D
    

    Took me like 10 seconds to find on Bitsearch

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      Not cool man. Keep that offa lemmy so we stay clear of trouble.

      Look at my ETA. I already watched the movie.

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    In this case, piracy is the moral thing to do. I wouldn’t even call it piracy at this point.

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    YAHARRR!!! DON’T BE SO QUICK TO LOSE HOPE YOUNG SAILOR!!! For the riches you seek are not far away!!!

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    About 80% of my use of Netflix is “hear about a cool film, open up the app, it’s not on Netflix, close the app”.

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      The other 20% is: Netflix creates a amazing series, I hear from it like 3 months later, watch the whole thing, ending with cliffhangers, and its already cancelled.

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        I always wait and check first. Like that show 1899, looked pretty damn great but I’m not watching something about anything mysterious that got cancelled

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    You probably can get the bluray from one of those bulk sellers. Pick up a bunch of movies and get combined shipping