fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added “FBI” up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don’t understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    38·
    3 months ago

    Losing fmovies wasn’t the bad thing as there are dozens of clones. It’s the hosting services that really took a hit. The reliable ones have been down for a while. The ones left buffer much slower and can’t handle peak times as well. Those years with fmovies really felt like the golden age of piracy.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      526·
      3 months ago

      Dude, there is the golden age I’ve waited 20yrs for.

      Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you’re set. Never worry again.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          321·
          3 months ago

          Generally I agree. But I’d be willing to pay what I would pay a streaming company if they had all the content I wanted.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          104·
          3 months ago

          Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

        • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
          129·
          3 months ago

          Must be nice having one or those free computers running on free electricity with free internet.

          • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it’ll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

            Let’s go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

      • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        I’d never pirate myself, obviously, but a friend in a restrictive country is interested in this. Is there an “easy to get started” guide for him?

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          52·
          3 months ago

          I would pay legit services. But to see it all i would need multiple services with multiple apps, half of which wouldn’t run on my rooted devices. So fuck them.

          Sadly no. Not that i know. But once it’s setup it basically runs forever without tinkering. Impressive for open-source. Could name the software and/or services that are helpful.

          • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            The first paragraph hits so hard. “That show is with this service now, but only the last season. If you want to each watch all of them you’ll have to get three subscriptions”

            Fuck off…

            What’ll be the min spec for the setup? Can it be run from a pi 4, for example?

            Thanks 💖

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
              8·
              3 months ago

              As you’re obviously no american, you also know that even if you’d pay netflix (for the FULL price i might add) you only get a fraction of what they got and not a penny discount for it. Sorry, but no. If you want my money, OFFER ME SOMETHING. Or discount me. That is just robbery.

              So, you at least need a server for the whole work. A pi could do it, although you might not expect stellar performance off of it, but it would get the job done I assume. Except maybe live transcoding if that’s necessary (like watching 4k uhd content on a 720p phone or so).

              So min-spec would be the combined min-spec for all services. As they probably also run on linux (i use win-20xx-server) it really should do.

              You’d need:

              • The **nars you’d want (radarr=movies, sonarr=series, bazarr=subs, lidarr=music etc. and there’s even one for porn lol)
              • a downloader, either usenet (prefered for speed and comfyness) or torrent. So SabNZBd or qtorrent or whatever
              • If usenet, then you’d need a usenet-account (use one with the highest retention (backlog) like eweka.nl (if you wait for black friday or so, they usually have BIG discounts) and probably an indexer (the search-engine kinda). Like 10 bucks a year if you pay only yearly or like 30 lifetime, depends on service. I’d advise for nzbgeek, they’re cheap and nearly 100% net a result. You could also go for free ones, but they’re always very limited. Probably more than enough for 1-2 movies a week or so. sucks if you want a series with 400 episodes :-)

              And of couse:

              • a media-server. Like Plex or Emby. I personally love emby, i even pay them just because (and for some minor benefits). You could also go for the free jellyfin, but it’s more hassle to setup and i didn’t get it to work reliably (and i’m a fucking pro)

              Maybe, if you want to access everything from the outside and don’t want that machine to be totally exposed:

              • some (reverse)proxy like nginx or caddy. I Prefer caddy, it’s fire&forget like all others mentioned here. Once setup though.

              I admit, it’s a bit of tinkering and configuring, but once it’s working it’s fine. The *narrs auto-update reliably, emby does too. Occasionally you might manually update sabnzb and restart emby after an update, but that’s it.

              I even integrated everything with telegram so I get notifications when someone added/moved/deleted something or stopped playing or whatever else. completely smart-home-integrated too.

              if you have more questions, just hit me :)

                • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Anytime. As long as it gets the job done, the PIs are totally fine. At least they don’t consume much power :-)

                  • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    I meant to write proxmox, but my keyboard seems to disagree.

                    Yeah, they’re awesome when they’re the right tool. But you need to switch once your needs outgrow them.