So if you don't know what Plex is it's a combination of a desktop server program plus apps on various platforms that lets you download movies and then stream them directly to your tv or phone or other device via a really nice interface that automatically finds thumbnails and summary information for all the movies and shows you've downloaded.
And so torrents are now basically liberated from my laptop (or the heck of plugging my laptop into my tv with an hdmi cable, lol) and free to reign on my tv and so I'm coming to you, people of rdrama, to suggest movies I should download for my Plex library.
This is what Plex looks like on desktop, these are all movies I've torrented
These are the movies I've already downloaded so suggest me anything that isn't already on here.
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Plex changed my life
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!codecels
1. Use jellyfin it wont phone home
2. Sonarr/radarr to auto download torrents for your tv shows
3. Ombi as an easy interface.
4. Private trackers and or a vpn to protect your butt from content lawyers
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Jellyfin has some horrific transcoding and the UI is 3rd world
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FOSS. FOSS. FOSS. I <3
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explain
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I do the first 2, I just torrent raw tho. Just get an ISP that doesn't give a shit
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You suggest private trackers as if it's simply a matter of signing up. Also, private trackers have much better quality torrents than public trackers.
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What private tracker do you suggest
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I'm not a member of any private trackers. I wish I was, but it's very difficult to get invites these days.
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That or is doing alot of work there, most folks will need to sit behind a vpn, maybe do something with a seedbox
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jackett too
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Jellyfin's dope it's like Plex without the corporate proprietary bullshit. Also checkout put.io for torrenting.
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nude nuns with big guns
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THIS
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plex is bloated shit and has unnecessary stuff
I use Jellyfin and its so much lighter and completely free and any number of clients
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based jellyfin enjoyer
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I already have Plex so I'm going to keep using it on the basis that Plex is a better name and Jellyfin sounds kind of stupid.
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ay this neighbor fricks
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how's Eileen?
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still haven't watched any of the new movies currently finishing last of us
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Does Jellyfin have firestick and android support that normies could actually do?
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yes https://jellyfin.org/downloads has clients for andoid and fire tv
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Really the question was "Would I be able to convince my parents to install them"
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You set it up for them and forget. That's what I did for my grand parents and my mom.
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It's sad how massively popular Plex has become in such a short while, meanwhile Kodi has been out since the early 2000 and seems to have been all but forgotten. I've been running Kodi ever since it was Xbox Media Center (XBMC) on my original Xbox and it's always been fantastic software plus a huge community of plugin authors.
Anyway, if you're looking for a decent movie - Check out "The Pledge" with Jack Nicholson, circa 2006, its on Roger Eberts "most overlooked movies list" and was actually pretty good, not GREAT, but it did scratch the itch of wanting to see another 90s-00s psychological serial killer thriller movie and it has a neat twist. I enjoyed it and my wife did too.
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I know plex because it gets suggested on /tv/, I've literally never heard of Kodi until now lol.
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/tv/ likes curating files on their computer. if you don't, this on a fire stick for $3/mo is a much better user experience
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Kodi is better in my opinion providing you aren't an r-slur, I have a plugin called Seren that is basically roll-your-own netflix and it streams everything for free - but you do need to set up a real debrid account which isn't hard. Also I use Sonarr and NZBDrone to download all of my stuff from old Usenet groups, no slow torrents, but that takes some effort to set up as well.
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Plex works if you are a complete r-slur which I am so I'm going to stick with Plex lol
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That's OK, tbh Kodi is a lot of work to set up.
Watch that movie I recommended it was good. Also you can't go wrong with any Swartzeneggar movie from the 80s / early 90s.
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One of the first movies I got was Conan the Barbarian
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Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And hear the lamentation of their women.
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how long has seren been around? last time i fiddled with kodi was probably 2018 or so, i didn't watch stuff too often (maybe once a month) but i remember basically every time i wanted to watch something the addon i was using would be BTFO'd and i'd have to go to the subreddit and figure out whichever new service everyone was using and link my real debrid etc.
not that plex runs that much smoother though lol. still have to do a rain dance to get it working on other devices if the PC i run my server off of has gone to sleep at any point since plex was launched. need to just get an actual server at some point but electricity
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I know what you mean about the plugins it was a constant cat and mouse game. Seren has been around for at least 3-4 years now and it's super stable. I think the big difference with Seren is that you the user have to enter the scrape sources (which is easy) and that it pulls from real debrid instead of public torrent sites.
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Kodi was shilled a lot early on but i guess it was too soon and it didn't have enough polish. I think people also didn't take too well to having a computer hooked up to their TV. Plex was more like a personal Netflix instead of a 500 DVD changer.
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Every 4k remux from rutracker
Black Buck Broken Trans Lives Matter
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Columbo
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I thought Columbo was a tv show? I'm only really downloading movies right now, tv shows take up a lot of space and I don't want to buy an external hard drive just yet.
Unless there's a Columbo movie or something, like how the Batman TV show has a movie.
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Oh sorry, I thought you said TV, too.
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It's a good suggestion, I'll keep it in mind for when I have the money for an external drive.
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You won't regret it
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There was a Columbo TV movie before it was picked up as a TV show, and the pilot/first episode of season 1 is feature length. But yeah, get an external hard drive before you start it. I have 93gb of Columbo on mine
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Being John Malkovich
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Redline if you aren't allergic to all jap animation and want an eyecandy movie.(It almost bankrupted the company making it)
Shawshank Redemption
You can also check out IMDB's top 250 movies and pick and choose through it.
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Reline is peak visual animated
fidelity
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That's why I suggest it even if they don't like anime. Also redline and space dandy seem to be a bit different from the normal anime that weirdo like.
Also the yellow line song is great.
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I don't know why but I couldn't get plex to work like 7 years ago so I never
touched it again
Then again I was buying those access
passes to other people's libraries so maybe that was why
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nailgun massacre
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jellyfin for shows and movies, plex for music.
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Just reminded me I still need to plug in and update my HTPC and get PLEX setup. Fam is just so tired of all the movies we were able to watch on either our sub or prime are now behind some sort of rent paywall. It's bullshit.
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is it like Popcorn-Time or something?
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No, it lets you stream movies you've downloaded yourself to a PC to other devices (like a phone or a smart tv or a ps5). It doesn't just have a library of movies of its own that you can stream (it does have some of its own free streaming but I don't use it for or care about that).
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Salo, A Serbian Film, Dogtooth
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Godzilla/Kong Monsterverse movies are pretty good for just turn your brain off and enjoy the spectacle. Plus you get to watch San Francisco, Boston, and Hong Kong get wrecked.
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Godzilla Minus One is supposed to be good so maybe I'll get that.
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I've heard good things about that one too. I'm just a sucker for giant monster movies.
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The fricking toxic avenger (80's version)
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Gotta get the wire. I'm about to start it again now
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TV shows are on hold until I have the money for an indecently large SSD external drive.
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Pirating is immoral
I liked interstellar
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Captain Marvel
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Ten years ago this November I made my then-girlfriend cry with a rant about how much of media is selling something through the commodification of identities and interests. She thought I was crazy and asked why I couldn't simply enjoy the pop music about consuming products and engaging in brand loyalty (Hennessy comes to mind). I told her I was not born--and indeed, no one was--to have these conditions thrust upon them and sold as joyful pursuits.
I suspect she started crying then, not tears of amazement toward my basedness, nor because of the idea that much of her interests might have been picked up because of capitalist exploitation and its expectations of her in the role of wealth extraction, but because she realized that we were effectively done and incompatible. We broke up shortly afterward. I was just too weird for her. In her defense I am a real Tyler Durden about shit like this.
That experience is a very important one for me. Some modern applications of Marxist theory, or really any anti-capitalist analysis of certain wealth extraction schemes, just sounds nuts to regular folks. I find a tongue-in-cheek, half sarcastic joke about "being had" is the most effective sugarcoating, if anyone is interested in discussing things such as this article's focus with the uninitiated. Otherwise you might as well begin with "In the world I see, you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center."
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