I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don’t want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won’t be able to figure out how...
That sounds correct. AFAIK most countries in the world do not do credit card AVS (address verification service) so aside from a select few countries you would be able to enter just about any address for those country’s cards.
The one catch is the card would have to be from that country that doesn’t support AVS e.g. for India I think you are saying that you used an India based card, right?
Most people just use a NAS (self built or one of the pre-built types) & stuff a bunch of hard drives into it. Or just stuff a bunch of hard drives into their desktop(s).
Sure there are people outfitting rack(s) of server(s) but generally that’s just the truly dedicated people going that route.
For what it’s worth hard drives nowadays go up to ~22TB so your 34TB example would only need two massive hard drives. A compact NAS or small desktop would work fine for that example.
Probably OBS would be your first try, it should be able to do a video capture and is Linux compatible.
Or if you’re willing to set up a VM running Windows you could look into the non-free closed-source stream rippers for 720p/1080p. e.g. RedFox AnyStream, DVDFab StreamFab, etc.
EDIT: Just realized AnyStream also has Linux builds so that could be a non-free closed-source solution.
I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set. All the files seem to be numbered with .#.ext in them. All the files came in one root folder....
I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set.
The download only has one BDMV folder? You should have 6 different BDMV folders if it’s supposed to be six discs. Sort of sounds like the uploader tinkered with the data & maybe flattened the whole thing into one massive disc?
Once I organized this into a streams/playlist/clip/meta folders by file type and feed it into makemkv I can only see disk one.
Yeah that makes sense, 1 BDMV folder = 1 disc.
I’m not actually sure how you’d even go about flattening 6 discs into one BDMV folder, thing is many of those files (especially the .m2ts files) have the same duplicate name across multiple discs. Maybe the uploader used Blu-ray editing software to do that, or maybe you only have 1 disc not 6.
My hunch is maybe the uploader purposely re-wrote the whole thing into one massive disc so you’re not really looking at 6 discs anymore. Not sure if this’ll help but maybe try feeding the whole thing into BDInfo & see what it comes up with, at the very least it’ll be able to give you some visibility into which specific .m2ts streams each .mpls is linked to, & that way you can hopefully decipher the different episodes/whatever that you’re looking for.
PS - If this data was edited by the uploader I’m not sure how easy or feasible it would be to figure out how to split it back into 6 discs. (assuming this data is indeed 6 discs)
Feeding it into DBinfo I can see the appended playlist files (appended with .1, .2, .3 and so on) call the same numbered stream files with no appended .1, .2, .3
Yeah that’s probably right since each disc likely had the same named files in them (e.g. same name .m2ts files).
Where I am getting stuck in this logic is why there are 12 index files in the upload while there should only be 6 disks as listed in the .XML files.
You’re right, that makes no sense either :/
Personally I would consider this corrupted data & just move on / try to find another source for that content. Otherwise seems like you’re going to be spending a fair amount of time trying to reverse engineer whatever happened here.
What is your final goal? Are you just trying to mux the .m2ts stream files into .mkv containers? I suspect you can work with the .m2ts files directly & feed that right into ffmpeg or makemkv for the same results (granted not sure if you’ll lose anything extra like subtitles). The trick is figuring out which .m2ts is which episode or whatever, you already have enough clues to figure out which .m2ts files are being referenced.
Also fun fact: Most media players can play .m2ts directly without needing to mux into a .mkv container first. I usually just hardlink the actual .m2ts files & rename them as needed for Kodi or whatever e.g. “blahblah.s01e01.m2ts”
If the VPN does not support port forwarding is it still possible to use for Linux torrents?
Yes with caveats. Torrent swarms need at least 1 connectable (port forwarded) peer for the swarm to exchange data. If all the peers are firewalled (not port forwarded) then all the swarm peers can see each other but cannot exchange torrent data so there will be no uploading/downloading in that swarm.
Generally speaking you won’t notice much difference in large torrent swarms since those swarms usually have some/many connectable peers. But in smaller torrent swarms you may have trouble since your odds are worse that you’ll find connectable peers in those swarms.
PS - Yes you are still seeding/uploading while firewalled (not port forwarded) just not very effectively. While firewalled your best connections will be with connectable peers in the torrent swarms. Not much to think about with public torrents but it’ll kill your ratio at private trackers for sure.
Yes, usually at the end of the year if there are funds to spare I’ll donate to a bunch of FOSS projects, other non-profits, websites, etc. especially if I use them year-round.
You may want to update your post to mention which version of qBittorrent 4.6.0 you’re on.
e.g. are you using the build with Libtorrent 1.2.x or Libtorrent 2.0.x?
Libtorrent 2.0.x does tend to use more memory during runtime (especially when you have many actively uploading/downloading torrents) but it’s fine overall, the OS / kernel knows to redistribute memory away from qBittorrent to other applications as needed. In other words if nothing is crashing then you should be okay.
That said I’ve mainly tinkered with Libtorrent 2.0.x clients on Windows (Deluge & qBittorrent) so there might be something I’m missing specific to Linux or Docker. qBittorrent with “Physical memory (RAM) usage limit” set to its max will basically let Libtorrent use as much memory as it likes… it is lower priority memory so in theory as long as everything else in Windows is working the other applications can still request memory & run properly. Funny enough with Deluge I don’t think it even has a RAM usage limit setting so Deluge with Libtorrent 2.0.x will happily use the max memory available to it.
To be fair the site claims they have an open source application yet there is no link to the source code.
Another commenter mentioned github so I searched around & found a potential github project but they’re at 4.0.0 release while this site you linked claims to offer a “4.2.0.apk” so I guess it’s some random 4.2.0 release version?
Are you able to link the source code that this website refers to?
EDIT: Nevermind I think I found it, the .apk being offered matches this project at github github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream/releases though I’m not too sure if the .ws site being linked here is associated with the github project (the github page doesn’t mention the .ws site and the .ws site doesn’t mention the github page)
There weren’t any, it was just a troll account that asked admins at a bunch of different Lemmy instances to block anything related to piracy. Lemmy.world admins took the bait. Even in the original announcement they never mentioned anything about dealing with tons of takedown requests. In other words they were blocking piracy related content preemptively before any takedowns occurred.
It’s nice they walked back that decision but I’m still not going to create an account there.
I use Hetzner as a seedbox and then have PLEX as my media server ran on the same hardware. It’s worked perfectly fine for years. But recently PLEX says they will be blocking Hetzner hosting in the next few weeks. I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future....
I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future.
Currently would not be possible. Jellyfin does not have the sort of centralized accounts/logins that Plex does e.g. you’re not asking Jellyfin devs for permission to log into your own server. That’s just a Plex thing.
If you’re asking could they add that “feature” in the future? Highly unlikely but I guess anything is possible. Were that to happen most likely the code would get forked into a new project.
PS - Jellyfin itself is a fork from Emby back when those devs decided to close their source. Myself & tons of other people dropped Emby at that point & migrated to Jellyfin. jellyfin.org/docs/general/about/
Is it possible to get a virtual credit card for a different country?
I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don’t want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won’t be able to figure out how...
Storage solutions
For someone who wants to maintain a library of movies, I see the first two links in movies megathread total to 34TB worth of content....
Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent
So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent....
which software would i use on linux to capture video from disney plus for personal use?
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Need some help with a BDMV folder structure (lemmy.world)
I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set. All the files seem to be numbered with .#.ext in them. All the files came in one root folder....
DrunkenSlug registration is open - for Usenet pirates (drunkenslug.com)
VPN portfowarding?
I’m posting here because I assume a lot of you use vpns and this sub seems to have the most users to ask....
Do you donate to FOSS projects?
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qBit using .62Gigs of memory per torrent. Is this normal?
Running Docker-ized qBittorrent v4.6.0. 64-bit on Ubuntu 23.10. Seeding 29 torrents, Leeching 0 torrents....
Could anyone spare an invite to TV Chaos UK?
I can provide proofs from other sites. Please and thank you in advance!
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CloudStream 3 APK Latest Version (Official) Download (cloudstream.ws)
Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world
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With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.
I use Hetzner as a seedbox and then have PLEX as my media server ran on the same hardware. It’s worked perfectly fine for years. But recently PLEX says they will be blocking Hetzner hosting in the next few weeks. I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future....