Would put Plex in there as well if it wasn’t for their recent opt-out streaming history visibility update.
No need to use Plex
I use Jellyfin and plex still has it’s uses, much easier to share content remotely for example
Comics like this assume that the service in question has anything worth pirating. We’re talking about Disney here, though.
Disney owns 30 percent of media. Just because you don’t care about what they have doesn’t mean it’s not worth to someone.
I’m saying this as someone who is in a similar boat where I don’t really care for anything they make beyond the occasional marvel movie but not all and also I’ll just pirate what I like anyways.
They inherited tons of good stuff people seem to ignore. I think that’s partly because big chunks of that library are still available on other services, but if they decide to make everything they own exclusive, it’ll be much more of a pain in the ass.
But then you have to host all of it yourself right? Why would people want to go through that hassle when Stremio + debrid is cheap as hell?
I love this image, usually when I talk well about Stremio they think I’m shitting on Kodi, and that couldn’t be more far from the truth!
I like this duo beating up companies and I use both!
I remember using Kodi around 2012 and it was a bit of a hassle to get it set up initially (install different repos etc.) since out of the box it was very vanilla. Is it still the same process or has it gotten better where users can hit the ground running after install?
I started using it on Linux, then a Mi Box and finally and since then a Nvidia Shield TV Pro, I think it maybe has the same “difficult” steps to set it up (meaning navigating through many menus and using the keyboard several times, something not ideal on a device with a remote), if you go with the default skin (which I despise) then you can save a lot of time thinkering (I kinda don’t mind this).
Anyway, when you have your setup working as you want it then it requires low maintenance, add-ons can auto update themselves and I haven’t found they broke horribly or feel the need to disable auto update and check changelogs for every version before updating lol.
It definitely isn’t as plug and play as with, let’s say Stremio, but once you set it up you have a lot more flexibility, filters, customization, you name it.
“I have altered the contract. Pray I don’t alter it further”
–Disney
Trade those subscriptions in and buy the stock instead.
You can get going with Jellyfin if you want a alternative
First setup Jellyfin on a old computer. (Preferabllly Intel with hardware acceleration) https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/quick-start/
For content follow the following:
Buy the bluray -> rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata
About how long would you say
rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata
takes? I have a lot of movies.
The step that takes the longest is the “transcode with Handbrake” one. On my fairly slow mobile Ryzen 7, it takes about an an hour and a half.
The thing is, you can tweak settings in Handbrake to be faster at the expense of video quality and/or file size.
What I do is to set up a bunch of files and let Handbrake run overnight. In the morning, everything’s done and I can work on the next batch. It helps that I work from home.
Ripping from disc takes about 20 minutes. Copying is as fast as your network. Updating metadata can be done whenever.
For my wife’s 1300 DVDs, it took me 3 years (it’s not an automated process, so obviously this wasn’t 3 years of 100% uptime).
The hardest part for me has been dealing with DRM. Some movies will have their scenes scrambled 1000 ways, and then the DRM is just knowing which playlist is the right one. MakeMKV usually handles this, but sometimes it gets it wrong. so I have some scrambled movies that Ive never gone back to re-rip. It’s VERY frustrating when it doesn’t work, but very simple when it does.
Overall, still worth it for independence to me though. When The Office/Friends/etc got yanked from Netflix, but I still had physical copies and jellyfin, I felt REAL vindicated.
me over here using my old bulldozer cpu with a 1060…
transcodes just fine though.
Look at you with your bulldozer and your GTX 1060. What a bloody luxury. I am here with a pile driver and a GTX 970.
Rocking 970 aswell. Hell, my RPI could do it with some tweaking at 1080p.
They are altering the deal.
Pray they don’t water it any further.
