Not looking so bad now
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Nebula isn't really even in the same ballpark, super weird to include it there. Not sure when YouTubers started minting blu-rays and DVDs...
Yes, but there's no reason why Nebula wouldn't enshittify in the future. At least they dare to offer a lifetime account so it's not just one more subscription. And I just want google to loose.
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I’ve bought a lot of physical media over the last couple of years and it can be great, but there’s a lot of pitfalls
The quality of, particularly, DVDs is all over the place and the transition from NTSC to digital is handled in so many different ways that each require special handling.
PAL and European releases can be terrible in all kinds of ways including speeding up the content and optionally pitch correcting the audio.
A lot of content you’d want isn’t available or is only available at exorbitant prices.
UHD discs have tons of read errors that make ripping perfectly difficult and the quality (and this price) of the drive makes a big difference in how well you can do this.
Drives don’t last if you’re ripping lots of stuff.
Just some things off the top of my head, nowhere near a complete list.
It’s still worth it, though, and new releases are easier if that’s what you’re looking for.
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Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.
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Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.
Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.
Good to know. I’m not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.
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Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).
Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.
VLC can also do it.
I have personally started dd'ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.
Ripping can be a pain, there's all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn't rip no matter what I tried.
I’ll look into it, I appreciate it.
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️, folks. whats the holdup why people rather mess with fucking VHS again rather than just do it the convenient way?is that the extent of the anti piracy propaganda?
I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.
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Only if you pay for them
️wrote last edited by [email protected]If companies are allowed unlicensed access (AI training) to media en masse I don't see a reason everyone else shouldn't have that either.
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I have a decent dvd/blu-ray collection and was hoping to rip them and put them on Jellyfin. I haven’t ever ripped video before, only CDs and that was a long time ago. I also would have to pick up a usb disc reader or similar since I don’t have one in my machine. Any suggestions on applications to use or external disc readers to look out for? I’m running Linux not windows.
Buy one that can also burn m-disc
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Burn your "acquired media" to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out
No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
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I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.
wrote last edited by [email protected]is there anything preventing you from pirating now?
that's not to say they haven't failed over and over again to stop piracy with their crackdowns.
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No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
I was talking about blu-rays
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We're fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Bluray was always luxury.
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Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.
Laserdisk, I had this friend who collected all sorts of junk and this was impressive Tek from decades ago.
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They tried to kill piracy so many times, and it never worked.
They will try again and fail again. And the best of it is that sales won't go up anyway because the problem is not piracy, is their own greed.
If they somehow manage to completely kill piracy, I won't be able to pay for every streaming service anyway because I don't have the time to enjoy them all nor I think they are worth my money at all.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I agree - if they stop piracy, i will start selling copies of my stash for the cost of the Hdds to clone to and the time it took me to copy the files, under the pretense that they do the same for others. free delivery!
hmmm somewhat of an offline torrent lol
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I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.
And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.
Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.
Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.
and fill up my hard drives.
This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.
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I was talking about blu-rays
Why not talk about floppy discs?
Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.
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I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.
And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.
Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.
Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.
oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.
now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).
and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.
there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I'd listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I've got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I'm trying to dig out a cassette deck. here's a song i got off his program.
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Why not talk about floppy discs?
Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.
wrote last edited by [email protected]While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today's era
I wouldn't consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.
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Host? Sounds like a problem I'm too "several large HDDs" to understand.
And, pray tell, where does the material on your hdds come from? Would it happen to be peers kind enough to host the material for your consumption?
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I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.
Thats why you grab a lifetime of stuff now
