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.
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.
Oh no I fell on the keyboard and this link appeared.
Netflix selection has gotten worse and worse.
Oh no, I also did that thing you did and randomly generated a streaming link
https://fmoviesto.cc/watch-movie/young-frankenstein-1974-full-17881.5300662
Netflix has virtually no older movies
https://bsky.app/profile/jlalibs.bsky.social/post/3lazxosxk6s2m
There don’t seem to be any active datahoarder communities on lemmy, but looks like we could use some.
I’ve seen the self hosted community. As well as an audio book bay poster, that needs an account though.
I am nowhere near an expert so I’d be hesitant to start one. I’m not one of the crazies using a RAID with its own dedicated back up lol.
Will post setup on the self hosted instance and see if it’s applicable.
Funny how some poster got downvoted for this, yet you got upvoted for it in the same thread. People are fickle.
And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
Because they took an arm and a leg and didn’t leave us with enough to get high quality prosthetics.
works for me
YAHARRR!!! DON’T BE SO QUICK TO LOSE HOPE YOUNG SAILOR!!! For the riches you seek are not far away!!!
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”.
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.
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
I’m watching Silo because there’s a book anyway
“I’m afraid Young Frankenstein has grown up. All that’s available is Old Frankenstein.”
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.
In this case, piracy is the moral thing to do. I wouldn’t even call it piracy at this point.
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!
I feel the need to point out that some dns servers block this. In piHole for example, you need to allow this. Some Routers do it too.
TIL, thanks. I use namecheap and haven’t had any problems (mikrorik router).
Oh snap. Genius. Thanks for the idea. I do have a domain I registered and never used!
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.
I figure not fixing that is 10% not knowing they could, 20% doing so would make it easier to rip stuff, 70% doing nothing costs them nothing since you’re supposed to be using the Blu-ray interface anyway.
Try living in a small country, there’s tons of stuff like that.
Hopefully you ain’t land locked, matey
Guess I better borrow it before it’s hard to find!
Doesn’t anyone rip library DVDs any more?
I haven’t had in optical drive in my computer in probably almost 10 years.
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Yes. My library has some DVDs but not this movie.
Looking back I really cannot fathom how we watched DVDs and thought the image quality was acceptable. I am way too spoiled by HD and UHD.
A lot of content from pre 2008 era are still that same quality… Just comes with the territory.
Esp TV shows
You probably can get the bluray from one of those bulk sellers. Pick up a bunch of movies and get combined shipping
Yeah wouldnt that reward bad behavior?
Although buying physical also send an important market msg
What bulk sellers of bluray? Is that a thing?
Yes
Check ebay
Have it on DVD
