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To clarify for anyone wondering, this is just a web dev experiment to create a clone of the Netflix UI. It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any

by stewx 5y ago

To clarify for anyone wondering, this is just a web dev experiment to create a clone of the Netflix UI. It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video.

theandrewbailey 5y ago
At first, I thought that this was a cool DLNA-like client.
- vorticalbox 5y ago
  Me too I like the ui of Netflix and would love a way to nicely should stuff from a ftp drive.
  - mxd3 5y ago
    Check out Jellyfin: https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/
    - Bad_CRC 5y ago
      I just installed jellyfin this weekend and I'm trying it. IDK why there aren't more open source tools for this, IIRC Emby and Plex are not open source, and using a close source software for watching content from.. the high seas... is a bit risky IMHO.
      - dmos62 5y ago
        > the high seas I appreciate the expression.
      - khimaros 5y ago
        Jellyfin is a community fork of emby.
    - prophesi 5y ago
      I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin due to the former's requirement that users must buy a PlexPass to download media you've shared with them. Relying on streaming for movie nights was a nightmare. A community developer also recently launched their Plexamp-inspired iOS/Android music player on the stores. https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
    - tekromancr 5y ago
      Wowie! I just installed this and this friggin rules! All of the features I care about from Plex, plus the ability to enable/disable transcoding on a per-user basis? Yes!
    - NavinF 5y ago
      Jellyfin has some serious performance issues. I tried using it on a small 12TB zfs dataset of Linux ISOs and it only indexed ~20% after letting it run for a month. For comparison, my ffprobe scripts only take a day to collect media info about every file and figure out what needs to be transcoded. The web UI is also a buggy js SPA that doesn't use meaningful URLs with "#". So when it breaks, you can't reload the page and get back to page you were on. It's incredibly frustrating. Unfortunately, Jellyfin is the only open source video server I could find that kinda sorta works. So this is as good as it gets unless you wanna get your hands dirty and rewrite large parts of it. nb. I did not try out the online metadata fetching because I didn't want to give it internet access. I assume that enabling online metadata will make the server even slower
mandeepj 5y ago
> It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video. You just killed my dream of starting a unicorn and filing to SEC for a FFLX ticker
quickthrower2 5y ago
Hypothetically you could use popcorn time as a back end

by stewx 5y ago

To clarify for anyone wondering, this is just a web dev experiment to create a clone of the Netflix UI. It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video.

theandrewbailey 5y ago

At first, I thought that this was a cool DLNA-like client.

vorticalbox 5y ago
Me too I like the ui of Netflix and would love a way to nicely should stuff from a ftp drive.
- mxd3 5y ago
  Check out Jellyfin: https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/
  - Bad_CRC 5y ago
    I just installed jellyfin this weekend and I'm trying it. IDK why there aren't more open source tools for this, IIRC Emby and Plex are not open source, and using a close source software for watching content from.. the high seas... is a bit risky IMHO.
    - dmos62 5y ago
      > the high seas I appreciate the expression.
    - khimaros 5y ago
      Jellyfin is a community fork of emby.
  - prophesi 5y ago
    I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin due to the former's requirement that users must buy a PlexPass to download media you've shared with them. Relying on streaming for movie nights was a nightmare. A community developer also recently launched their Plexamp-inspired iOS/Android music player on the stores. https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
  - tekromancr 5y ago
    Wowie! I just installed this and this friggin rules! All of the features I care about from Plex, plus the ability to enable/disable transcoding on a per-user basis? Yes!
  - NavinF 5y ago
    Jellyfin has some serious performance issues. I tried using it on a small 12TB zfs dataset of Linux ISOs and it only indexed ~20% after letting it run for a month. For comparison, my ffprobe scripts only take a day to collect media info about every file and figure out what needs to be transcoded. The web UI is also a buggy js SPA that doesn't use meaningful URLs with "#". So when it breaks, you can't reload the page and get back to page you were on. It's incredibly frustrating. Unfortunately, Jellyfin is the only open source video server I could find that kinda sorta works. So this is as good as it gets unless you wanna get your hands dirty and rewrite large parts of it. nb. I did not try out the online metadata fetching because I didn't want to give it internet access. I assume that enabling online metadata will make the server even slower

mandeepj 5y ago

> It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video. You just killed my dream of starting a unicorn and filing to SEC for a FFLX ticker

quickthrower2 5y ago

Hypothetically you could use popcorn time as a back end