PC died. Trying the legal options.

And fuck. I really miss plex. I’ve had Netflix and Hulu forever as family won’t let me cancel. Decided to sign up to Paramount + for some Trek. Twice in lower decks it didn’t save my watched episodes. Doesn’t mark episode as watched if you exit during the credits. And multiple playback issues.

Wanted to add no ad Disney to the Hulu for some Doctor Who. Only the add supported is available through Hulu. So I’d have to cancel, wait for the month to end and sign up via Disney. Deal with ads or pay almost double the duo plan costs, or include ESPN, and honestly fuck sports.

What is so difficult about just providing a decent service for a fair price? Why is plex like a decade ahead of the streaming UI’s? I’m trying to give you fucks money and you’re making it extremely difficult.

LodeMike,

Your “PC died”? What does that mean.

Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR,

Computer no longer works. 'E’s passed on! This PC is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E’s off the twig! 'E’s kicked the bucket, 'e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PC!!

LodeMike,

So you lost all your files?

Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR,

No. Once I replace whatever part died, I’ll be able to restore everything important.

Donk240978,

There are over 300 upvotes on this post. Why the hell does this comment have only 2 upvotes?

Are you and I the only ones who enjoy this reference?

pregnantwithrage,

Have you tried the library? It’s definitely location dependent but I’ve found it’s a good way watch obscure things and whenever I don’t want to “find” this online I’ll check there first. I also like that it gives the city a reason to keep the library open by having more people use it.

Try the library.

Trainguyrom,

Bruh I’ve always been a goodie 2shoes and gone legit, but the current streaming wars have pushed me over the edge and I’ve been shocked at how easy it is to just do a quick search on qbittorrent and yoink down some content

art,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

I’m lazy. I just open fmovies on my phone and cast to my TV.

thorbot,

Just find an old desktop PC and install Plex on it?

Imprint9816,

Bro just buy an optiplex off ebay and go back to plex.

chahk, (edited )

Seriously. People don’t realize how well Intel QuickSync transcodes (non-4k) stuff. My Plex/Jellyfin server is on a 6th gen Celeron with 12GB DDR3, and it can transcode 10+ streams simultaneously. Cost me under $150 USD.

Amazed,

Check my profile for a media share option, if you would rather not dive into the technical aspects yourself. Ditch the enshittified media services and improve your life for the better.

buddascrayon,

Why not use Plex if you love it so much?

FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Family won’t let you cancel? Cancel anyway. Let them pay for it.

0x0,

Ahoy, FlavoredButtHair truly embodies the pirate ethos

4lan, (edited )

Jellyfin + Sonarr/Radarr + Bittorrent = free personal netflix with infinite logins.

I gave logins to my whole family over the holidays and now they can watch anything they want. They just text me the name of the movie and it’s up there in 2 minutes.

Streaming is becoming just as bad as cable was. I’m done playing their games.
Hulu literally has adds on their PAID subscription… People are getting WAY too used to being butt fucked by these companies

edit: I used this guide to set it all up: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911487

FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

People need to be more educated when it comes to VPN and piracy. Your setup is pretty awesome with that combo.

The Plex pass pays for itself.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The Plex pass pays for itself.

Never had to pay for my Jellyfin install beyond a donation.

FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

What’s the up and downs for Jellyfin?

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Try it out yourself and see what bothers you.
Some couldnt care less about features that are the sole reason they chose a platform.
And Jellyfin can be used together with plex until you decide they ditch either of them.

4lan,

casting from the app is not perfect, but using the Android TV app is flawless

brygphilomena,

Ombi or Overseerr (I prefer Overseerr) will let them do requests automatically. Overseerr uses Plex logins so you don’t need to manage additional passwords for them.

EncryptKeeper,

You can have Overseerr sync Plex watchlists so they don’t even need to use Overseerr, just add what they want to their Plex watchlist.

Croquette,

Do you torrent directly from your jellyfin box or do you have a seedbox that then sync to jellyfin?

I want to do a jellyfin setup, and wondering if I want a seedbox or directly torrent.

4lan,

I used this exact guide: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911487, I have Jackett and QBittorrent on the same Linux server as Jellyfin. Files are moved automatically into the media folders after downloads complete

Croquette,

Are you in a country where ISP are forwarding your information to the copyright holders?

I will check the link. Thanks

Appoxo, (edited )
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If you are in a trigger happy country the 2nd option or with a vpn.
If your country couldnt care less the 1st.

Croquette,

Seedbox then. Don’t need to worry then

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes and no.
Seedboxes with proper storage and a good service are hard to come by. Even more if you want public trackers.
My 2TB costs me 16€ because I have an old service plan but seedbox.io was one of the rare options to allow public and their support is honestly amazing and quick to respond and fix.
Much faster than myself in responding to tickets :p

Croquette,

Thanks for the info, I will look into that.

EncryptKeeper, (edited )

You can setup Overseer to manage requests and even sync Plex watchlists so that literally all they have to do is add something to their watchlist.

There is a Jellyseerr which might work the same way.

ObsidianZed,

I have a similar setup but only use it in my own home. I’m just curious, how do you share to your family? Do they watch exclusively on Mobile/Web (or maybe casting) or do you also push for them to pick-up some form of Android TV or something else that supports the Jellyfin app?

I could share to my family but I don’t want to have to babysit them and I know unless it’s incredibly simple, they won’t bother with it or they’ll both me with it every time.

4lan, (edited )

Most already had Android TV built into their TVs, but I gifted a couple of them $20 Walmart Android TVs. Even changed what the Paramount and Disney buttons open up for them. They all got their own logins so our ‘recently watched’ and ‘continue watching’ is separate

I’m in love with the customization in Android TV, I even have it controlling my lights so I can dim them all with a button on the remote

You can cast from the Jellyfin app too, but it’s not as nice.

kumatomic,

My family still requires a couple of the services too, although they’re decreasing their usage because they love Jellyfin so much. I just had to say that the Paramount+ app is utter garbage, especially in Apple TV. Most annoying was if you triggered the left hand menu by simply trying to navigate to the left then you weren’t allowed to exit the menu without making a selection. They also deleted it ignored my watch history so the time too. Also fuck all their forced ads on ad free versions. Just because you call it a promo because it’s an ad for your service doesn’t make it less of an ad. That’s what killed it for me. $173 12th gen i-3 mini pc off Amazon+Jellyfin and I haven’t touched the Apple TV in six weeks. No problems encoding anything even 10bit outside my house. Love it.

rezz,

Jellyfin + Usenet and I’ve never looked back. I only use it intra-house. So no need for more complex setups. It’s flawless to date.

CCMan1701A,

Yeah, I can’t find some kid shows, maybe I have the wrong provider.

rezz,

Kid shows definitely are an issue in general.

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Thanks for a great motivational speech, I already was against all corpo streaming services, but now I’m going turbo-mode on building a new Jellyfin server with all my media to stream whenever I want :)

kumatomic,

I just made the switch last month. Even my partner doesn’t touch his beloved Apple TV anymore. We’ll never go back.

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Lol once you taste the forbidden fruit of media freedom, everything else tastes sour.

Burn_The_Right,

It cannot get better and it will definitely get worse.

Paying for enshittified services is not really “doing the right thing”. It only encourages further enshittification.

Pretzilla,

Enshittification getting stankier everywhere

LemmyIsFantastic,

Everyone here who has used Plex has had fuck ups. Between finding corrupt movie files, Plex messing up meta data, or forgetting where I am in a movie (and between multiple devices this is especially bad); my list of Plex/xbmc fuck ups would far outpace any issues I have with the services.

In general most of the streaming services work just fine and have most features you need.

The biggest issue by far is the need for $140 in streaming services to get what you want. I’m probably just going back to cable IMO.

brian,

I’ve also had none of these issues on jellyfin either

Darkassassin07, (edited )
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Sure there’s occasionally issues with source media or how it was imported, but the big difference: I can fix problems with emby/plex. I can correct messed up metadata, or run a partially corrupted file through a converter to fix it, or just replace files entirely; all in a few minutes. (and none of these I have to do very often. Like one or two files a month, while constantly adding new content daily)

Most of the problems paid streaming services have, just have to be delt with until the provider gets around to fixing it, if they ever do at all. Then you add on content being scattered across 10 different services, artificial quality limitations, tracking, lack of or very poorly implemented offline playback, the inability to share with friends/family, advertising (now even being added to services built-on being ‘ad-free’), the list goes on…

As a note: I use Emby and have never had an issue losing my watched position and have only had maybe 1 in 1000 items incorrectly identified (out of a library of 4k movies and 34k tv epps).

WeirdGoesPro,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Idk if I’m just lucky, but I’ve been running Plex on Linux for years without any major issue. Occasionally I had to hit things with a chmod, but that stopped being an issue after I changed a setting in qbittorrent, and that isn’t really Plex’s fault.

Rarely, if it is transcoding something and I pause for a long time, I may have to stop it and play it again to get the transcoder running again. It is a very minor issue that I barely ever think about unless I’m traveling.

Does it run differently on Windows or something?

Doubleohdonut,

Not really. I’ve run Plex for years now, and it’s still infinitely better than the PS3 Media Server we ran before. Sometimes it crashes but that’s always been resolved by a quick reboot. I have more issues with my Nvidia Shield than with Plex itself.

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