I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.
So now I’m here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.
If you connected to the plane’s Wi-Fi disney+ tries to validate before opening downloads or something like that, but the wifi usually blocks streaming requests
You need to put the phone in airplane mode, open disney+, then you can connect the Wi-Fi
Get VLC Media Player or another similar of choice. Where it’s easy for you to manage & watch/ listen to any media of choice.
Enjoy your upcoming travels.
Sure it will. It fully supports streaming
Or, you know, if you accidentally typed a YouTube address into the wrong site, and somehow it ended up on your phone. Whoops. It could happen anywhere, even on a layover
Or if you’re uncomfortable with that, Dr horrible’s sing along blog is pubic domain, a bunch of big actors and writers made it during the first writers strike. I think the sequel is too. I think you can still download it off the official website… I’ve got a copy on my phone just in case I find myself desperate for offline content
It fully supports streaming
Ok but this is a thread about needing downloads for travelling…
On most of these services you can download but you must be connected to the internet to verify that you have the right to watch the file you downloaded.
Download stuff to your phone over wifi and watch away from home without eating up cellular.
Their support site literally says “when you don’t have an internet connection” so if it’s working the way you describe then it’s not working as designed.
I use YouTube to watch clips of films I might like, and pirate them.
I use YouTube Music to discover music, and pirate them too.
I don’t subscribe to services. Why should I?
I recently binged the entirety of Better Call Saul on Stremio using the Torrentio plugin. I have a Netflix sub.
Not the user above. But I find Stremio to be a way better experience overall. It’s more convenient and quicker to get to what I want to watch. I’ve been off Netflix for a while, but there were times where the Continue Watching section would just be gone. I’d have to search for the show again and resume. The more services you replace with Stremio, the more convenient it becomes.
I have not looked into offline playback with Stremio so I’m not sure if that’s a thing.
