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Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?
  • You're not alone, I definitely spent the majority of my time on 720p rips. I couldn't tell the difference between them and 1080. Though these days, actually just recently, I've switched over to 1080, and I can tell when it's lower.

    But most my collection is still 720 and I feel no need to go back through and update everything. Maybe when I get arr set up I'll let it go through and do it for me 🤷‍♂️

  • What drew you to the high seas?
  • 50TB!

    I know many people have much more, but wow. 4k I'm guessing? Or full quality 1080 Blu-ray rips?

    My TV is... Inadequate. An old 1080p LCD that won't die. But it's plenty big, and the backlight is even and the blacks are black enough. It's plenty clear.

    I've really enjoyed 4k stuff on my buddies TV. But not enough to justify ditching a perfectly good TV, and the costs associated with a proper HDR OLED, and the increase to my current storage solution (8TB) and the time to find and download everything at Max resolution. I download most my stuff at 720p, I don't really notice the difference between the two unless I'm pixel peeping.

    Plus my family uses my media server remotely, and my upload is only 14mbps, so I'd need to force transcoding, and I'm not sure my server has enough chooch to do 4 concurrent transcoded streams.

    I really should just bite the bullet and start with my storage and get higher bitrate stuff now.. gah.. it's a slippery slope lol, and so far I've been happy with my simple setup..

    Sorry for the wall of text, guess I just needed to write this all out 🤷‍♂️

  • What drew you to the high seas?
  • Yeah steam is where it's at. I'm sure it won't last, and they have their own problems. But for now? It really is a service problem with TV and movies.

    I can easily buy and own a game from steam, play it on my deck and get updates, no muss no fuss.

  • What drew you to the high seas?
  • Don't forget deleting things you "bought" from right out under your nose.

    Seriously, I did the same thing, early times pirating, only for my whole family. And when Netflix was good, requests for TV shows and movies went way down. I only had to pirate really obscure stuff that wasn't easily accessible.

    But now I'm back in full swing, more than ever before honestly, out of necessity. And I don't see it slowing down.

  • What drew you to the high seas?
  • My brothers were using limewire like 20 years ago when I was a preteen. So I started using limewire, and quickly surpassed them in skill. Jumped to TPB when they got popular. I now host the family media server, and take requests 😬

    Still haven't taken the time to set up sonarr radarr and the like. Would probably simplify my life a lot. But I've got a system and it works 🤷‍♂️

  • A better Revanced
  • Thanks, I actually have it installed and I've been playing with it. It's been playing smoothly.

    The problem is that the authentication with my account is failing, so I can't get my subscriptions and watch history. I'm still working on figuring it out

  • YouTube 15 second initial buffer, another buffer in the middle of the video which often doesn't ever recover from.

    Non rooted.

    Rvm version 1.20.1

    Yt is recommended version, 19.11.43

    Latest microg with all permissions given.

    Patched the apk with only the standard patches, installed, and it ran perfectly for two days. Last night it started this buffering issue and it's driving me mad.

    I've cleared data, reinstalled, repatched, toggled spoofing using every version available to spoof. Restarted phone even. I went through and gave microg every permission I could, though I couldn't figure out how to turn on spoofing for it.

    Yet this issue remains.

    My family isn't tech savvy, though they can figure out how to side load an apk. So I have them running microg and this same YT patched apk that I've generated. They are all running fine. It's only me with the problem thus far.

    Is anyone experiencing this? Am I doing something wrong? Missing something? Or just bad luck? Thanks.

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