• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    Right? I can feel bad about not offering my family the same quantity as the mainstream services, then I remember that while I don’t have 40,000 films I do have 5,000 handpicked by me, so no trawling. Also, I’ll never make my friends feel dependent on me as I make their home theatre experience better for free

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      15·
      23 hours ago

      5000 is more than what Netflix offers. They have about 3500 movies.

      • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        I’m interested in using VLC more for home viewing. Right now it’s my only option for playing my imaged DVDs on the fire stick. The interface is decent but I’m wondering if you know of a more normie friendly way to select titles, other than browsing a network share.

      • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.comEnglish
        7·
        24 hours ago

        I have jellyfin for group viewing and sharing, but it’s actually just a bunch of symlinks to an NFS share, which is also exposed as a fileserver (caddy with basic auth)

        So I can stream via jelly clients, or remotely stream/download files directly, or read straight off my local NAS.

    • Emi@ani.socialEnglish
      4·
      24 hours ago

      If they want a specific movie you could just add it. That’s how I do it, whenever we remember some movie or find something new I just add it. No need to have everything just what you actually want and if it’s good I’ll keep it there instead of deleting it when cleaning up from time to time.

      • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        Yes! I have recently set up a Jellyseerr (Overseerr fork) service which really helps, as they can browse from a load of categories and I get their requests on my account and get it to download to the right directory.