I'm wondering about what your piracy workflow looks like.

  1. Where do you find what shows/films to watch?
  2. Do you stream for convenience or download for superior quality?
  3. Where do you store media?
  4. What software are you using to watch it?
  5. How do you keep track of your watchlist, which episode you already watched or where you left off in a movie?

I have Netflix and Disney+ (through family) and it already drives me crazy to remember where which show is available, download quality sucks, shows get delisted halfway through watching them. Sometimes multiple seasons even are across multiple streaming services. (I was very sad before I discovered there were more than 4 seasons of Adventure Time). I even want to pay for the production of good media, but streaming services make it a really hard sell 🤬

I know that the -arr suite with jellyfin is a pretty nice workflow, but I'm not into self hosting (yet).

  • TrueStalinistPatriot [comrade/them, any]
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    15 days ago

    1. everywhere?

    2. download. to download I use a bunch of websites through prowlarr/sonarr/radarr with qbittorrent nox for automatic downloading and importing to jellyfin

    3. my server (laptop on my shelf)

    4. jellyfin

    5. jellyfin

  • roux [he/him, they/them]
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    15 days ago
    1. Mostly movies from yts . mx, and movies and tv shows from watchsomuch . to.
    2. Mostly for convenience and I think information should be free. I cam back to the high seas after they decided to have 4,758 different streaming services and kind of hate exclusive as an excuse to get you to pay for one service over another.
    3. I have a dedicated 6TB hard drive(wish I would have paid a bit extra for an 8 or 10 though). I also used it for rsync back ups but that's it.
    4. I switch back and forth between Jellyfin and Plex. Jellyfin is a bit fiddly but open, Plex "just work" but is closed source. I try to use free software as much as I can.
    5. Both JF and Plex will keep track, but I've had issues with JF if a movie or show doesn't want to run(I think it's a transcoding issue) sometimes I lose progress of my most recent watched stuff. Kind of sucks. I've had more issues with JF than with Plex which sucks.
  • junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago
    1. Jellyseer is what I use, also allows others to request stuff
    2. I download via torrents, automated with the *arr suite
    3. My seedbox, fast speeds also help with my ratio
    4. Jellyfin, just because i prefeer FOSS
    5. Jellyfin covers that, if i happen do delete some show then Jellyseer still remembers if i finished it or was only partially done

    Lots of seedbox providers offer all these tools with their boxes so you dont need to host anything

  • Hackerpunk1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago
    1. I mostly check predbs for releases from scene, imdb, youtube and everywhere.
    2. Download for convenience. Multiple Devices, Data Caps and Internet Instability in my Country. qBittorent (Docker) with a couple of rules & rss. I don't use -arr suite since I prefer to manually check the torrents
    3. Old Haswell PC (Unraid) with HBA+DualNic in the closet
    4. Plex & Jellyfin (Backup Solution)
    5. Plex & Jellyfin (Backup Solution)
  • u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    Same as you, I also haven't fully dipped my toes to the world of self-hosting (yet).

    1. For non-animation movies/series, I wade through the popular/trending categories or read recommendation from friends, lemmy or, god forbid, reddit. I don't really need to do this lately as my shows backlog is as long as my games backlog.
    2. For convenience always. 720p is fine for me.
    3. I stream. Unless it is one of my favorites I want to keep.
    4. Real-debrid+Stremio.
    5. Stremio does it for me. Also for anime, I have Anilist.