I only have one streaming service and it has literally everything.
Streamio ?
Self hosted jellyfin
I only have one streaming service, and it’s got pretty much everything.
Arrrr
Ahoy mate
If I want to pay money, I’ll buy the DVD. If I just want it one time, I have ways and means.
I dont like having DVDs everywhere.
if they offered DRM free paid downloads so i could give them my money and just host it myself i probably would give them my money.
but they don’t, so i sail
That is fair. But I’ve had more HDD failure than DVD disc rot so far. I prefer physical media which doesn’t require engaging my computer.
Physical media is the way
You can mitigate against HDD failure with RAID and backups.
I have two 8TB HDDs in a RAID1 configuration. if one dies i can remove the dead one and add a new one to the array and the data will sync back across from the good drive. I also have two 10TB drives in rotation going to offsite storage. every now and again i backup my server to one of these drives, take it to the place i store them and swap them over.
Only thing i’m missing from the 321 rule is different mediums, considering the amount of data i’m dealing with though the cost of backing up to tape though was prohibitative
I swear when I first heard 321 it was “at least 3 copies of the data in at least 2 physical locations with at least one copy being offline” but now I’m hearing of different storage mediums instead of different locations
I may be wrong but my understanding was 3 copies of the data, across two storage formats, with one offsite
Given that physical media comes with DRM I can’t see that happening
Steam is DRM but is invisible enough that i haven’t pirated a game since i was a teenager.
As always Piracy is a service issue
DVDs are like 480p quality
At least get regular blurays
Blu-Ray is a pain to play in VLC, for the times I do want to play it on PC. Besides, I can’t much see beyond 480i and roughly 30fps. And I can’t rip it as easily.
You don’t read them into Jellyfin? I just assumed you used MakeMVK.
You pay to watch stuff? Why?
I like the cinema and it’s £5 and you can take your own munchies.
Ik have a beamer and an automated download system on my NAS. I have my own cinema but with a comfy couch, I can pause when I need a new drink or for a toilet break, watch anything I want and I have my own snacks too. Plus, 3 kitties fighting for my lap.
A fiver is a good deal though, cinema over here is expensive. €20 for a ticket. Snacks and drinks are also expensive AF.
I am currently setting up a media server but I still like to contribute money to the films I really like. Massive screen is unparalleled for the price though. You got me with the kitties though, I want to open a cinema now where you get a cat for the film too.
There’s a catfé in my town, a café with cats. Great concept, could work for cinemas too.
Market trends have inspired me to make my own plex server on raspberry pi. It will be a fun project. :)
Don’t do that
Performance will be bad
Yeah. I just moved my Plex server to my newly rebuilt and Linuxized old gaming machine, a 9700K (8 core Intel) with 32 gigs of ram and a GTX1080 GPU. It is so nice having all that performance available, especially the GPU if somebody needs to transcode while watching.
I can use that machine like normal without affecting anything streaming from the box. Next time I need to encode a video I’ll have to try watching something 4K transcoded to lower bitrate 4K/1080p at the same time to see if I notice anything.
Use kodi instead.
While you’re at it, set that Lil guy up as a pi-hole. Best things I’ve ever set up on my raspberrypi
Huge library of [legally acquired] digital media is nice too
What are you talking about? Of course I got the BIOS from my PS2 using a flash drive. Of course I manually backed up physical games I own. I would never illegally download.
I bought a Chinese made emulation device for $60 and it came with all the games and firmwares I would ever want or need. It was then I knew China is the shit.
Oh, I bought it from Amazon to boot.
Aar…
*Arr
'rent > rent
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Sail the High Seas Matey!
Arrr!
Wow! I only realized now why the *arr software (radarr, sonarr, bazarr …) are named like that despite using them for years.
Thanks for the epiphany.
Having no blue ray player and a desperate desire to watch anything studio ghibli ruined me. Thank god hbo picked it up but now I’m desensitized and relieved when the things I want to watch appear on amazon or apple TV.
Do you not have a PS3? Or a PS4? Or a PS5? Or a PS6?
Wait, are you a time traveler?
Someone stole it.
I picked up a Blu Ray player not all that long ago, and even there selection is kind of surprisingly limited.
You’d be less depressed if you got some sea air into.
Blocked on .world.
It’s really time to switch.
