I went through a fair amount of "adjustment", getting my family to use Plex and Overseerr (replacing Kodi and "ask Dad to get it"), so I'd want to have some compelling reasons to change things on them again.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually started using Stremio today because of what this guy said. I never heard of it. It's definitely easy to use, but requires some setting up with plugins. Without the right plugin (torrentio) you won't be able to stream anything without being told to use a subscription service. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get the plugin. I just watched Evil Dead: Rise and I had plenty of options for streaming it. Considering how I canceled my Netflix subscription a little while ago it's nice to have a reliable replacement. I mean, it's even better than Netflix. Lots of new movies and shows to watch. I hope this thing lasts a long time because it's just what I was looking for.

[–] Postis2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nice dude you can install the plugin "cyberflix" so you get streaming catalogs that you can scroll through in discovery.

[–] Gailthesnail@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

stremio has gotten a lot worse quality wise since rarbg went down. it doesnt seem to scrape torrentgalaxy correctly and i have no idea how to fix it

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I recently learned that you could integrate real-debrid with Plex though and stream instead of storing locally if you like so that may be worth looking into for your (and my) use case.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember seeing Overseerr mentioned before although I do remember someone describing a request system like that for Plex a while back.

It's interesting... I have never really tried to get my family using anything like that but I have had the lifetime Plex Pass for years now.

I think it's about time for me to finally start expanding my local media collection again so maybe I'll give adding it to the mix a shot.

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, it's been a game changer for my family and I. To go with Overseerr, I setup multiple Radarr and Sonarr instances, to cover 4K and anime. That way, anything they request in regular 1080p is auto-approved and downloaded, whereas 4K content requires I approve it first, mainly so I can manage free storage effectively.

Once I've managed to save up enough to deploy a much bigger storage solution, I'll just let 4K be auto-approved too.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Makes sense to me... Might still be worth looking into Plex Debrid though to stream anything not worth keeping.

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an excellent point - there's no reason for a one or other approach. There's plenty of content we only watch the once, then I delete later on when doing a cleanup.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same... It's part of why I know I can actually make this work if I start cancelling paid streaming services and go all in on yo ho ho and a bottle of rum again... Because I don't currently have as much storage as I'd like but I've still got some.

[–] Postis2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that could be a good idea personally i don't save a'lot of stuff so a flash drive is enough for me