• foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.

    The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.

    Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want…

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Difficult is an understatement.

      I’m traveling overseas now, and my totally valid Paramount subscription doesn’t work in Portugal and I can’t watch lower decks anywhere even if I’m willing to double pay for it.

      The irony if that I downloaded episodes to watch offline on plane, they’re literally inside my phone.

      • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Wait till you hear about YouTube premium making it imposible to watch downloaded videos already on your phone unless it can phone home every 3 days. The videos on your phone, you can’t wstc it until you get in touch with daddy google, defeating the point of downloading a video for offline viewing.

    • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This right here. Apple did a very artful job of making everything available way back when on a unified storefront with “everything”. Netflix did much the same, and for a time it was “everything enough” until each studio decided it was a good idea to make their own storefront. The mistake is that they inadvertently rekindled piracy not so much because of the pricing, but due to the convenience factor. Now the piracy is most convenient because it has it all in one spot. People will pay for content, that’s not the issue. It’s the same old adage as going to the same grocery store that just has all the shit you need so you don’t have to drive all over town.

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
    403·
    1 year ago

    All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

    • Fred@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      Jellyfin is better for in home streaming, but I find plex easier for sharing external to family/friends.

      • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It has a few clients available for different devices, I’m using the Android TV client for example in my Philips Smart TV

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      I keep trying, I have an extremely large collection and it keeps falling flat on metadata matching. Especially with anime, yes I have installed the add-ons. They still suck. And for whatever reason it’s transcoding performance is nowhere near as good. It also still has an unresolved memory leak issue with a ticket that’s been open for a long long time about it. I want to replace Plex but it needs to be with something as good as Plex

      • araozu@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I use jellyfin a lot for anime, no plugins. I just label all my folders like kaguya_sama_[tmdbid-12345].

        As long as the The Movie DB id is there, aboslutely no problems indexing.

      • TRBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I had a lot of trouble jellyfin and anime until I started putting things into season folders, even if they only had one season. So if I had Ano Hana I’d put the episodes in a folder like this

        Media Disk/Anime/Ano Hana/Season 1/episodes_here

        If it’s a movie, then it goes into a folder with other movies.

        Media Disk/Anime Movies/movies_here

        Once I started doing that, Jellyfin automatically recognized most Anime.

        • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I already do this, everything in my media is extremely cleanly named because they are handled by sonarr

          series name/season 00/EPSxxExx-“episode title”

          so it’s not a file format issue. It gets a lot of them but there are certain things especially if they are recently aired or currently airing where it will simply fail to find a match until I give it the Japanese name at which point it manages to find the metadata for the English name. Really stupid stuff like that

      • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Emby is the premium version of Jellyfin. I have found the meta information works a lot better. I haven’t done much transcoding but it does support it, and there are more apps to access it. Not too happy with the iOS app but the LG WebOS app works great.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I went in blind, not knowing anything about One Piece other than it is a long running anime. Easily my favorite show I’ve watched in 2023 so far.

    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The usurper delivered us from the evil that was cable or nothing.

      You either die a hero or live long enough to become the enemy. The cycle must repeat