And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
(And that “watch similar movies” thing can go to hell too)
ETA:
Jellyfin is great, yes.
My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we’ve done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn’t find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.
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big sysad vibes
Heh, understandable. I’m one of the older Lemmy folks, I’d guess. I’m a software engineering manager for an aerospace company.
Which one? I’ve had a few big clients in that space (ba dum tss)
And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
Because they took an arm and a leg and didn’t leave us with enough to get high quality prosthetics.
works for me
Everything is available for streaming when you have Stremio.
Try living in a small country, there’s tons of stuff like that.
Hopefully you ain’t land locked, matey
“I’m afraid Young Frankenstein has grown up. All that’s available is Old Frankenstein.”
You jest, but reading the user reviews on RT, I can tell a lot of the jokes in this film are lost on the gen-z crowd. Shame, really. But I guess it’s inevitable.
Also why I invested in the hardware and software for Blu-ray ripping. I now have a Pioneer drive in a USB enclosure, and can now rip even 4K Blu-rays from any region. So many special features I was missing out on, though a lot of disc releases are cheaping out on them these days.
Only annoying part about ripping is the freaking maze of playlists on many Blu-rays, especially for Special Features, and none of the player software I’ve tried yet has a feature to tell you what playlist and video file you’re currently watching. So you basically have to rip everything and then check each video file afterwards.
I figure not fixing that is 10% not knowing they could, 20% doing so would make it easier to rip stuff, 70% doing nothing costs them nothing since you’re supposed to be using the Blu-ray interface anyway.
If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.
So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.
This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don’t want your traffic going over the Internet.
It’s a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don’t always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified — but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!
I feel the need to point out that some dns servers block this. In piHole for example, you need to allow this. Some Routers do it too.
TIL, thanks. I use namecheap and haven’t had any problems (mikrorik router).
Oh snap. Genius. Thanks for the idea. I do have a domain I registered and never used!
I don’t think fully qualified means what you think it means…
Hmm, my understanding was that FQDN means that anyone will resolve the domain to e.g. the same IP address? Which is the case here (unless DNS rebinding mitigations or similar are employed) — but it doesn’t resolve to the same physical host in this case since it’s a private IP. Wikipedia:
A fully qualified domain name is distinguished by its lack of ambiguity in terms of DNS zone location in the hierarchy of DNS labels: it can be interpreted only in one way.
In my example, I can run
nslookup jellyfin.myexample.com 8.8.8.8and it resolves to what I expect (a local IP address).But IANA network professional by any means, so maybe I’m misusing the term?
Hmm, my understanding was that FQDN means that anyone will resolve the domain to e.g. the same IP address?
It just means it’s the full format, similar to absolute vs relative paths on a filesystem.
jellyfin.myexample.comis fully qualified (technically there should be a trailing dot but that’s rarely enforced these days) - doesn’t matter what it resolves to.jellyfinis not fully qualified - nor isjellyfin.myexample. This matters when you start talking about records in different zones - for example you could have an A record forjellyfininmydomain.com.Ok so it is fully qualified then? I’m just confused because it sounded like you were saying I wasn’t using the term correctly in your other comment.
Couple things I’ve tried to watch recently that I couldn’t find anywhere. I was even willing to buy it (streaming, maybe they’re available on physical media).
Basketball Diaries
Less Than Zero
Very annoying.
I’ve never heard of Very Annoying. Is it good?
It’s three hours of someone almost, but not quite, removing a splinter.
yeah it’s a AAA stunner of a movie. Great christmas flick.
Try to find the movie Parents. It’s almost impossible. Eating Raoul too.
I have the DVD. It’s somewhere in the pile.
I need to one day develop a DVD/BR/book catalogue app to get even vague idea about what exactly is on my shelves and boxes. It has long since gone unmanageable. At least I know what’s my next major project after NaNoWriMo.
I did the math and with current HDD prices it’s legit cheaper to rip DVDs as 1:1 copies and store them on a NAS vs buying the shelf space my 1000+ movies and TV shows would need.
I’ll keep physical copies of the rares and classics, but the rest will be donated after I’ve digitised them.
I started with the movies, but I only had about 60 DVDs. I start ripping one on Saturday morning, then go do something else. Easy peasy and jellyfin does the rest.
Consolation prize: the Gene Wilder documentary on Netflix is pretty good if you haven’t already seen it
I was not aware of that but will track it down.
RIP to the whole cast of this film.
You probably can get the bluray from one of those bulk sellers. Pick up a bunch of movies and get combined shipping
Yeah wouldnt that reward bad behavior?
Although buying physical also send an important market msg
What bulk sellers of bluray? Is that a thing?
Yes
Check ebay
I watched it on a website a few months ago for class
Is jellyfin considerably better than plex for local and offline usage?
Client apps are more limited but otherwise floss purist swear by it
Any difference in remote access? I think you gotta pay plex for that.
I remote access jellyfin just fine. Got a reverse ddns proxy on my synology nas so you can probably do the same thing for free.
That’s also true.
Remote access is above my pay grade though.
Personal preference, really. For me, jellyfin is much simpler to use, very easy to self-host in docker. And the clients are great too. I use desktop, android and roku regularly.
Better is subjective.
Simpler in a more streamlined sense, yes. Plex is more hands-off, and is doing a lot behind the scenes to automatically configure itself to your hardware for the best transcoding experience and such.
Jellyfin needs a little more work but can get there, it just needs to be shown the hardware and be configured correctly, but I find Jellyfin to be simpler and less cluttered overall when properly finished, with less strings attached to a parent company.
