With Radarr, Sonarr, and Plex, I get a better TV and movie service than anything I could pay for. I can afford to pay, and I would, but they won't offer anything reasonable. I ditched Netflix years ago when they removed the rating system to promote their low quality schlock. They kept removing content. Content would auto-play. Discovery broke as they kept trying to make me watch things I didn't want to watch. If they make their products worse, and keep charging me more every year, they shouldn't be surprised when I leave.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Same. I signed up for Netflix when they came to Canadas in 2010. Immediately had to start using proxies/vpn to access US Netflix since Canada's selection was broiled ass.

By 2013 there was news of Netflix talking of blocking non-US users from accessing US Netlix. Immediately cancelled, spun up my Plex server. 30TB later and I got 18 friends off of all their streaming services too lol

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pro-tip: Plex is slowly enshittifying, a good open source alternative is Jellyfin.

[–] w8ghT@lemy.nl 2 points 6 hours ago

Jellyfin is literally all I watch not to mention the BEST alternative to all the centralized AD riddled garbage (Now in forced foreign languages) 'Tubi, Pluto, Prime Video'! Crazy cause being a "Prime" member isn't enough nowadays cause they want you to DOUBLE Pay on top of a Membership Subscription to remove ads which is sooo counterintuitive?!

Straight out of that (Black Mirror) episode called (Common People) Season 7 Episode 1... Predictive Programming at it's finest.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 23 hours ago

Strongly agreed, from the owner of a dust covered lifetime Plex Pass.

Even if we eliminate all the other reasons you might not want to use Plex or might want to use FOSS, just the performance and UI responsiveness alone makes it worth the switch.

And I do have some non-techy family that watches remotely on smart TVs and uses phone apps.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Plex is still MUCH easier to share with my friends and family. I’ll be sticking with Plex until the UX on Jellyfin is comparable. Also Plexamp is the best music app I have ever used. It’s unbelievably good. Also Plex has more features like the ability to download and select new subtitles on the fly, and consistent skip intro functionality across all apps on all devices.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Remote viewing in Jellyfin requires significantly more work from me as the server admin, but it is just as easy for the remote viewing clients. I don’t have to do any first-time setup for them. I recommend an app or two for the media type they’re using, and all they need is URL, login, password.

On UX, Plex is more full-featured I’m sure, but the performance is so much better on Jellyfin that it quickly overrode any feature concerns I may have had.

And being FOSS, there’s some nice diversity in client apps. I use Finamp for music and really like it. There’s Plappa for audio books too. And for basic viewing there are multiple choices. I think I use Streamyfin because it supports downloads.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Remote viewing in Jellyfin requires significantly more work from me as the server admin, but it is just as easy for the remote viewing clients. I don’t have to do any first-time setup for them. I recommend an app or two for the media type they’re using, and all they need is URL, login, password.

Thanks for your suggestion. I spent some time investigating this to see how feasible it would be. I have my own domain and static IP, so setup on my end would be pretty straight forward. Users would need to enter my domain:port on first login, but I could walk them through that. I'm going to give it a shot and see how practical it is. If the performance is better, as you say, then it probably trumps those features you mention. With the exception of subtitles for me and the family. We use subs most of the time and need on-demand selection. Automated subs are very hit or miss.

It's also disappointing to hear the Jellyfin app doesn't support downloads but I guess if Streamyfin is available on all the platforms then I could just use that.

I tried Finamp and the UI is very not good on iOS. It also lacks a lot of features compared to Plexamp.

[–] Minizarbi@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

I'd love to improve Jellyfin to make people use it!

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know, for some features Plex is better, and for a very few features Plex will always be better because it's centralized. Jellyfin, being self-hosted, doesn't have an easy way to share and combine libraries from multiple users, and no single "login" page like Plex. This may be annoying for users, but we know all the problems that centralization comes with.

But this makes me think about the fediverse. What if Jellyfin servers could federate with each other? I wonder if anybody is working on such a project.

Edit: okay, apparently I found this feature request on the Jellyfin features tracker.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It also harvests lots of data. Check your firewall logs.

[–] anon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Can you import watched status and progress?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think you can even get a service as good as the Arrs if you're rich and have insanely expensive stuff like Kaleidescape.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 135 points 2 days ago (9 children)

How about you Prime Video subscription?

Yes, we have it

Great! Let's watch

You have to pay £12.99 for it

What? I already pay you monthly! Why?!

Because fuck you.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

To fucking rent it at that.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even the stuff that prime has available. I still torrent, just because their player is pure garbage (the X-ray thingy is a nice feature, tho)

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same with Apple TV. They are both a subscription and a rental.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

Corporate spit roasting! Nice.

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[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 136 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I dont even try at this point. 11 dollars for shit I dont wanna watch, and there's ads anyway? Yeah, no, I'm getting in the boat.

[–] exu@feditown.com 37 points 2 days ago

And then they only deliver up to 720p because your device hasn't been blessed by capitalism

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Really wish I knew about Jellyfin 5 years ago. So much of my money I could've redirected to a seedbox or a decent vpn service. Fuck streaming services

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

Just got mine set up this weekend, really works a treat! Utterly painless. Even put the client on the Roku I apparently don't own, hope the pricks somehow notice lol

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

pay for prime video or whatever. $2.99 or something i don't know what it costs i don't actually do this

30 minutes in and the resolution changes to 480p because my internet is shit and it's streaming

no thanks

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 23 hours ago

My internet is fine win any other streaming service. Prime streaming is the worst one out of all the major streaming services. Which is fucking weird considering Netflix runs on AWS.

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even with good internet if you're watching on the wrong device (desktop/media center PC) your stream will get bitrate locked to a 720p equivalent or whatever because of DRM bullshit.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Yes. This was what made me stop paying for streaming.

Yes, I guess, as a Linux user I could probably steal their stuff more easily than some others. (?) Or maybe just because I know how my computer works.

But - I have better things to do with my time.

I have indicated this to the streaming providers, using money, which I paid them, each month.

I believe that this is an easy way to tell me apart from pirates, who I understand did not pay for the streaming services each month.

But since the streaming services stopped delivering quality working streams to my devices, I no longer pruchase their streaming services.

Now I am enjoying my ancient DVD and VHS collection until streaming services stop sucking.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 35 points 2 days ago

Since the whole tariffs thing lead to boycotting of many American products, visiting the nearest version of Tortuga is downright patriotic

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kodi + The Crew + Real Debrid + daddy live

Fuck cable

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fuck real debrid

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago (22 children)

Try justwatch.com, they'll tell you where you can watch anything legally.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sir, this is !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com.The meme was just a cover, we were never going to pay anyways LMAO

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 10 points 2 days ago

JustWatch is still useful if you want to act like you watched it legitimately, e.g., if a coworker asks where they can watch it. Even if your coworker also pirates, they might not have an account on your private tracker, Usenet, etc..

I may be wrong, as I haven’t actually torrented anything substantial since Demonoid was still a thing, but it all feels less accessible than it used to be.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Funny, I only have to go to one website to watch anything I like.

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[–] admin@lemmy.today 18 points 2 days ago (11 children)

so there is this movie which is too niche, not available for purchase and no seeder :(

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Local library, local thrift store, 2nd hand websites... If it was ever published on VHS, DVD, ... chances are it's out there somewhere

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For English content, torrents are great.

But I've been having much better luck finding Spanish content on streaming sites, instead of torrent sites, and then downloading. See Guides for downloading streams.

The The Stream Detector is great!

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