I remember when the LOTR DVD set came with extended version and hours and hours of extra, I watch all of them, it was maybe 20 years ago!! But it was so cool!
Too bad now there is about no more DVD/BD nor extra ☹️
Memento was fascinating because the menu structure was a fragmented puzzle in and of itself.
There was also an easter egg to play the film in chronologicial order.
I watched the movie all the way through, put in the code and immediately watched it again in chronological order. This was like 2004. I don’t think I’ve watched it since.
Maybe you don’t remember watching it again.
Streaming quality is horrible compared to bluray and a lot of movies never make it to the streaming platforms. DVD’s are terrible but I some movies never made it to bluray of streaming.
I imagine most people don’t care, but I love commentary tracks and behind-the-scenes stuff. I’ve been ripping all of the extras from my DVD collection and adding them to my Plex server, with the intention of donating the DVDs to my local library once I’m done.
I’ve been thinking of doing this for my server. How do you organize the extra features?
Just like @[email protected] said in their reply – I prefer the “folder” method, over adding the tags to the filenames.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/
Short answer is put a tag like “-featurette” in the filename, or add a folder to contain the extras.
Jellyfin supports the same structure as far as I can tell. One thing I’ve found Jellyfin does better is in allowing you to organize extras for TV shows in with each season, while Plex only seems to allow you to dump all the extras into the root folder for the show.
I was hoping someone with experience with Jellyfin would reply here :D. Plex has worked well enough for my needs for a long time, but I keep seeing praise for Jellyfin here on Lemmy and I’m always interested in free and/or open-source alternatives. I’ve only got a handful of DVDs left to rip, and once I’m done with that I’ll be looking into Jellyfin!
I’ve got both Plex and Jellyfin running at the moment. Plex is nice for sharing with family since it’s more plug&play for sharing outside your LAN, and it is certainly a little more polished in some areas.
But I’ve been very impressed with Jellyfin as well, and would wholeheartedly recommend giving it a whirl. If FOSS appeals to you at all, it’s a solid choice.
In most cases, you really should have no issue running them simultaneously if you’re not ready to commit to a switch.
Phase II is borrowing the rest of the dvds from the library and ripping them too
It’s a thing we all took for granted at the time, but I really miss menus. There’s something much more complete and professional about the movie and bonus features being presented with an interface that fits the movie rather than the streaming service’s generic devoid-of-personality UI.
Hang on, babe, R2 has to roll across the screen first!
My wife and I have been visiting half Price books and thrift stores to find dvds and blurays.
Me because I like director/actor commentaries, and behind the scenes/making of features, her because she hates when streaming services cycle through content.
Also secretly I figure if the world ends and I’m somehow alive, I’ve got my solar setup and several ways to watch my favorite shows to escape the hellish reality that is post-apocalyptic earth as I slowly die from malnutrition or radiation. But that’s like… So far down the list, I usually just bring it up for the lols.
I also have this thought every few days. I’ll bring the irradiated nachos!
The extras on a DVD are the thing I absolutely love about DVDs. All my favorites have some amazing extras.
Director’s commentary. Try watching Grandma’s Boy with the commentary on, it’s a whole new movie.
God damn it now I gotta find this. Piracy supply chains really need to figure out how to completely separate audio and video files in such a way that users can mix and match any.
Piracy supply chains really need to figure out how to completely separate audio and video files in such a way that users can mix and match any.
It’s easy - use MKVToolNix to extract the audio files from the movie in an .mka container (or .ac3, .dts, .thd, .dtshd), and just share those files.
The problem is, most don’t do that for whatever reason, so you might have to try downloading a full Blu-ray ISO, or buy the Blu-ray and rip it yourself.
It’s great! It’s Alex, Swordy and Dante. And Dante brings a bong…
E: whoopsy, replied to the wrong comment
Yeah. I meant in a way where their split becomes the standard so you can mix and match any video format with any audio format, but it would be even better if the torrent software transparently enabled the tracking and extraction of either independently, while retaining the current bundled/container format. So you can be like, I want that 1080 AV1 version, but also the 5.1/Atmos/whatever because that’s best for my sound system.
If you want that it’s much easier to have the end user combine them than having this option on the supply side. Usually a ‘big’ rip just includes all the audio tracks that are in the source
Also, you’re entering a world of pain called out of sync
most media players actually let you do that already and most pirated content includes at least subtitles you can toggle on and off. but if you go for a full Blu Ray iso or remux you’ll usually get the commentary track.
I remember the monsters inc DVD had Sully using boo as a bowling ball in one of the bloopers and I found it hilarious as a kid.
Special features, that’s all. For shows and movies, piracy covers all that.
Don’t some streaming services, depending on the show, have extra content like bts interviews and stuff? It would be great if more shows had them.
