I mean, I've torrented every single DvD I own and the disks sit in the attic. Strangely, not once I have missed the lack of "hilarious cut scenes" or "Directors commentary" features.

Man I love clicking on a folder, scrolling for 30 secs and pressing play and the actual film just starts playing. The only thing that it fails on is remembering where I am in a series. So for eg. Blackadder I'd rather just stick on Netflix thank play in VLC

> The only thing that it fails on is remembering where I am in a series. So for eg. Blackadder I'd rather just stick on Netflix thank play in VLC

You can easily solve that one with something like Plex :-)

Can you install Plex in a standalone fashion, or do you need to set up a server and client?

With Kodi it'd just be a case of install and point it at your media directories.

If you don't mind using a web client (and you shouldn't, it's pretty good), you can install the Plex server on your machine and then open the web client on the same machine.

Upvote for Plex. Setting up a Plex box in my house was astonishingly easy and we now use that more than Netflix.

I had been hearing about Plex for a while and when I bought a Seagate Personal Cloud drive, I decided to give it a try.

I like it. I have moved a lot of media to it and I can watch it all at my convenience from multiple devices or computers in my house.

I have young children and after they destroyed several of the kid-movie DVDs I gave them, this was a godsend.

I've noticed Plex has stopped working with my TVs. It's kinda a bummer that the only help, that those on forums are willing to give is "buy a better TV". Is spending another 700 bucks really a tenable solution?

It's not a great solution, but there are several "streaming sticks" like the Roku, Chromecast, or FireTV for less than $50 you can buy and plug into your current TV.

Apple TV Gen 4 has a Plex app that works extremely well. Still $130 to put down but you also get all the other things it does.

Yep, only issue I have is that I now forget my netflix series because when I go to plex, my progress with those series isn't tracked or shown.

plus if you I guess do want to pirate, sonarr and radarr are freaking amazing to have a long with a plex server.

Install mpv and use Shift+Q to exit. That way when you open the folder again in mpv it will start exactly where you left it.

I just keep a little document in the same directory.

    echo 9 > last-episode
    mpv s01e09.mkv

If you're using mpv, do this instead:

mpv tvshow/season1

Now use Shift+Q to exit. The next time you run mpv tvshow/season1, it will resume from where you left.

Thanks for the tip!

The original "Barbershop" DVD had over 25 minutes of non-skippable previews and ads on it... So much so, that when the DVD player started skipping 5 minutes in (scratches on netflix rental), I never got around to watching it later (or asking for a different disc).

That's when I started ripping DVD content, just so I could watch it as the studios had gone way too far.