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Susanna said:
Better yet get Jellyfin. Plex has tried several times to put ads in content people host themselves. Like if a series is available on your own NAS as well as with ads from a streaming service that cooperates with Plex, they will show you the one with ads. Or would at least, it was like a year ago I read this.
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I use Kodi for my home theater software. Aside from using the internet to scrape media data, I can at least use it offline. Not a big fan of Plex.
 
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marvlouslie said:
I use Kodi for my home theater software. Aside from using the internet to scrape media data, I can at least use it offline. Not a big fan of Plex.
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You can do the same thing with Jellyfin. Granted of you use a domain name instead of an IP address you will want to set up a local DNS server that redirects the domain name directly to your server, instead of routing everything through your modem and back again.
 
Yeah just seems a bit much to set up a server just for that, then I realized you'd have to root mobile devices.
 
I just installed dnsmasq after finding a relatively painless guide that does it a more reliable way. There are two different docker apps that provide network Adblock using a custom DNS server that I'm pretty sure would make setup painless, but they don't seem to place much emphasis on being able to define your own DNS entries when I read their about pages. I've been meaning to load one up to test as it would provide a Gui web app and an easily portable configuration.
 
marvlouslie said:
I use Kodi for my home theater software. Aside from using the internet to scrape media data, I can at least use it offline. Not a big fan of Plex.
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I tend to not like media servers like Jellyfin / Plex primarily because of internet connection use. With Kodi I can view all of my media offline and locally without using other resources. I've got my PC connected up to my TV in the living room primarily for this purpose.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I just installed dnsmasq after finding a relatively painless guide that does it a more reliable way. There are two different docker apps that provide network Adblock using a custom DNS server that I'm pretty sure would make setup painless, but they don't seem to place much emphasis on being able to define your own DNS entries when I read their about pages. I've been meaning to load one up to test as it would provide a Gui web app and an easily portable configuration.
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I'm not going to tell you not to use the thing that works for you, however, it is much simpler for most people to just use Kodi and not have to set up their own DNS server. Kodi runs on everything from Raspberry pis to pcs to phones, doesn't require additional software on your PC, and works out of the box over lan without any kind of outside Internet connection.
 
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Never Scored said:
I'm not going to tell you not to use the thing that works for you, however, it is much simpler for most people to just use Kodi and not have to set up their own DNS server. Kodi runs on everything from Raspberry pis to pcs to phones, doesn't require additional software on your PC, and works out of the box over lan without any kind of outside Internet connection.
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I think sometimes the fuck about of making a thing work can be most of the fun.
 
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Betonhaus said:
You can do the same thing with Jellyfin. Granted of you use a domain name instead of an IP address you will want to set up a local DNS server that redirects the domain name directly to your server, instead of routing everything through your modem and back again.
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KateHikes14 said:
For windows you can just change the hosts.ini file, can you do the same for other OSs?
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What you actually want is a router that supports LocalDNS/NetBIOS. Manually assigning IPs via hostsfile is rather obsolete, unreliable (routers don't always follow manually assigned IPs), and not portable (if you change motherboards, your router will assign you a new IP because your MAC address has changed). With LocalDNS your router will announce hostnames dynamically. If a computer identifies itself as susannabox, other computers can access it as susannabox.localdomain.

All modern high-end routers should have this feature. I'm sure Ubiquiti and Mikrotik have this on all their routers, but you can also set up a localDNS server on a NAS or something like RaspberryPi. Pairs well with OPNsense and Pihole, very useful combo.
 
Never Scored said:
I'm not going to tell you not to use the thing that works for you, however, it is much simpler for most people to just use Kodi and not have to set up their own DNS server. Kodi runs on everything from Raspberry pis to pcs to phones, doesn't require additional software on your PC, and works out of the box over lan without any kind of outside Internet connection.
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I'll concede that when I was recommending Jellyfin I had completely forgotten about the fact that I manually set up a DBS forwarder server on my media server and it was set to be the primary DNS server in my DHCP server. Because otherwise going to a named domain like my server.xyz for your server will rout your data through your modem and back, and be capped by your internet plans max upload download speed.

If you don't plan to have your media server accessible even when you're not home and just use the IP address to access it then that's not a problem, but it does defeat a major benefit to jellyfin over Kodi.
 
Hey, so I am looking for suggestions. I basically never pirate or watch pirated content. I lack the tech-literacy for torrenting safely or whatever without getting viruses on my computer. However, I was told about FMovies by a friend.

As mentioned, I do not really watch pirated content, including FMovies. But I set it up on my tech-illiterate grandfather's computer so that he could watch movies. But now FMovies is down, and the owners have apparently been arrested in Vietnam! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMovies

Now my grandfather is asking me, someone who is also tech-illiterate but less so, to find them an alternative website. Since I do not pirate, I do not really have knowledge of a good alternative that I can set up for them on their computer. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should use to replace FMovies with? It would have to be as idiot-proof as FMovies was (aka no torrenting).
 
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revenge of rebecca said:
Hey, so I am looking for suggestions. I basically never pirate or watch pirated content. I lack the tech-literacy for torrenting safely or whatever without getting viruses on my computer. However, I was told about FMovies by a friend.

As mentioned, I do not really watch pirated content, including FMovies. But I set it up on my tech-illiterate grandfather's computer so that he could watch movies. But now FMovies is down, and the owners have apparently been arrested in Vietnam! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMovies

Now my grandfather is asking me, someone who is also tech-illiterate but less so, to find them an alternative website. Since I do not pirate, I do not really have knowledge of a good alternative that I can set up for them on their computer. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should use to replace FMovies with? It would have to be as idiot-proof as FMovies was (aka no torrenting).
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If you guys are fine with a long-term solution that isn't too costly, Stremio + RealDebrid might be a decent option. Easy install and setup, a nice UI and might be more user friendly than most streaming sites that rely on intrusive ads. It does rely on torrent streaming with RD, but it's not too hard to get a grasp of and for the cost it's a really good option streaming-wise.
 
Every time I put a normal fitgirl repack into virustotal it keeps flagging bits of it with a virus or two. For reference, I'm using what should be the standard site-- https://fitgirl-repacks.site/-- and I'm not sure why it's flagging her stuff as a virus. Has she been compromised? Or is Dave the Diver specifically off for some reason?
 
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Anonitolia said:
Every time I put a normal fitgirl repack into virustotal it keeps flagging bits of it with a virus or two. For reference, I'm using what should be the standard site-- https://fitgirl-repacks.site/-- and I'm not sure why it's flagging her stuff as a virus. Has she been compromised? Or is Dave the Diver specifically off for some reason?
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Windows flags random shit you pirate as a virus sometimes. It once flagged the Switch emulator Yuzu as a virus on my machine. I'm not sure what the rhyme or reason is too it.
 
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