I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe
I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe
I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don't know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.
So now I'm here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.
It's probably some weird DRM where it needs to authenticate with their server in order to verify you're actually the one with an account. It's silly. The steps they take to try and stop piracy are what in fact drives most people to it.
I started downloading shows from several streaming services I pay for simply because of the number of repeating ads they'll run during a show. A 24 min runtime gets extended to 45 minutes for all the ads, which I was sitting through for months but when they only have two different ads on loop, WTF!? A man can only take so much!
Shut up. You're paying for a service and still get almost 50% ads?
Why? How? Which? And do we in the EU also have this awaiting in our future?
Presently, Hulu's the worst I've experienced of the paid streaming apps I own. I recently just cancelled Netflix because they announced they were raising their prices yet again and with the recent account sharing crackdown, it was the last straw. My parents used my account far more than I ever did and they're not tech savvy folks. They get frustrated by tech of any kind. Once they couldn't access Netflix easily, I asked and they don't want an account of their own, it's just too much hassle. So screw the greedy shits! Now they get nothing.
I hope you're saying that these streaming services are free. I would never subscribe to something that serves me ads. The one reason I don't have cable TV, actually.
My iPhone advertised News+ to me the other day in the settings menu. It’s no fucking different than my LG TV advertising on their Home Screen. Pissed me right off
Their help page says you can download to watch where you don't have an internet connection. So if there is some DRM BS then that's going directly against what their help page indicates.
Corporations lying?? They'd never!
That really grinds my gears
I remember a few years ago going on an international flight. I had Spotify premium and I spent a few hours sorting and downloading playlists and podcasts that I wanted to listen to on an eight hour flight. Tested, retested and everything worked fine.
Got on the plane, fifteen minutes in turn on my device to play some music .... NOTHING WORKED ... all the downloaded files I had set for offline were unusable. I couldn't believe it.
My next flights were like yours .... just downloada bunch of stuff and play them freely without headaches.
Spotify did this to me twice before traveling. So infuriating.
Weird, I wonder what the issue was. I’ve not had this happen to me with Spotify. Did w Zune back in the day, bc you had to connect to WiFi or a computer every so often to renew the drm license
Now I will say that Tidal worked flawlessly so I at least had some music.
I switched to iPhone for work and I listening to podcasts is the worst. Before bedtime I usually download a podcast and put my phone into flightmode. On the normal app + on Castbox everything is acting up. The podcast stops and will not continue. No matter what. Going back 15s? Well how about f* you, I ain't playing anything.
I remember trying to watch anime on Hulu recently. I have the sub with ads and the ads kept causing a desync in the subtitles. The ads they added kept causing problems with their player. So I just downloaded it because it was unwatchable.
This reminded me I was still paying for Hulu and I just canceled right in time. Jesus fuck what was I doing, paying $8 to watch ads.
Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.
That's it. The great availability of streamed music(and downloaded for a fair price) is the reason why there aren't that much people who pirate music anymore, since it's easier to get it the legal way.
I did the same with Lower Decks when it first came out because even though I had a week of Paramount+, not one single thing I tried to view actually worked.
Who the hell would ever actually subscribe if the service doesn't even work when you're doing a free trial?
Paramount+ is even worse in Canada. It was a hot mess on trying to find where show were early on. It's not a full app like the US version. It runs as a add on tier inside the Prime app.
Then at my Firecube home page it offers to install the full Paramount, and the Paramount+ app then after the install it says the content is not available in my country. Clicking on any of the Paramount show links takes me to a app that won't load the content due to country issues. I need to manually go into the Prime app to find the Paramount shows.
There a few other apps like this too and some I can't even remove but it sure will notify the crap out of me about the updates for them.
Pay for Plex and a seedbox or Usenet and be free while also having the best quality there is. I invested my money in a few HDDs and I watch from every service out there for peanuts.
If you connected to the plane's Wi-Fi disney+ tries to validate before opening downloads or something like that, but the wifi usually blocks streaming requests
You need to put the phone in airplane mode, open disney+, then you can connect the Wi-Fi
I was on airplane mode on my tablet.
On most of these services you can download but you must be connected to the internet to verify that you have the right to watch the file you downloaded.
Bloody typical.
They take our money by offering features that don't meet advertised expectations.
And, yet, we'd be the ones labelled criminals for downloading via other means.
Netflix didn't use to do this-- you could watch in airplane mode. Any idea if that changed?
I've done this before with Netflix too. I was trying to watch a show and it was constantly stuttering, pausing and dropping out to unwatchable resolution. I know it wasn't my internet connection because the torrent for the episode downloaded in like two minutes lol.
I've had issues where Prime does something weird with HDR and it causes the quality to sometimes plummet.
Only have the issue in Prime on that TV,.so I pirate those shows.
Doesn't happen with downloaded HDR content or any other service.
Edit: just to clarify, its not all HDR shows on prime. Only some.
I'm subscribed to a bunch of services through bundle packages with my phone and Internet and still pirate the shows I want because it's nice to have them all in one place and to know they won't be unavailable in the future.
Yep, I watch everything in plex and it scrobbles to trakt.tv, even though I pay for a couple services. And I don't need to be concerned with whatever is going on with locations/password sharing etc.
I recently binged the entirety of Better Call Saul on Stremio using the Torrentio plugin. I have a Netflix sub.
Just out of curiosity, why?
Not the user above. But I find Stremio to be a way better experience overall. It's more convenient and quicker to get to what I want to watch. I've been off Netflix for a while, but there were times where the Continue Watching section would just be gone. I'd have to search for the show again and resume. The more services you replace with Stremio, the more convenient it becomes.
I have not looked into offline playback with Stremio so I'm not sure if that's a thing.
Pretty much what lessthanthree said. Cleaner interface too. I still have Netflix cause it's easier for my kids, they're still young and can't search by name, they have to look at the pictures.
I always pirate media even when I'm subscribed to a service. Most streaming services act up because I'm on Linux.
I am considering this. Since the Disney+ version of Futurama seems to add black bars to the top and bottom of the non-widescreen episodes.
Doesn't do it for me on my TV. I'd be curious to know if it respects the 4:3 aspect ratio if played on such a TV
I've done some research and I think the problem isn't that it's adding bars, but that it doesn't fill the 4:3 material to the full height of a 16:10 screen, it just stops at 16:9. I don't mind that for 16:9 content or other content that is wider but it's annoying that the 4:3 material doesn't use the full height of my screen.
Not exactly Disney plus but I had a similar issue regarding downloading Netflix shows to an SD card. There's a setting in Netflix to download to SD card however even if you select it, it won't work. You have to enable USB debugging and manually force the Netflix app to have SD card access. It's insane.
I'm in another country for a while and can't get English subtitles on my Netflix content on my Nvidia Shield TV. I was using a translator app and pausing the video to understand garbled audio and gave up watching.
I don't dare contact support, so I'm planning to cancel and lean into my eye patch.
That's crazy, I haven't used Netflix in a while but when I did one of the main reasons was the variety of subtitles/audio dub options. Even when watching from other countries through my VPN for access to stuff that was blocked in my country, it always had English subtitles and usually like 20 other languages, and for foreign language shows you could choose any combination of dubbed/original language audio and any language subtitles.
The web version lists almost a dozen languages, but the Android TV version only shows locale-based, unfortunately.
i basically have to pirate since that web drm stuff all the streaming sites use doesnt like my ancient laptop and im too broke to get a new one lol
I use YouTube to watch clips of films I might like, and pirate them.
I use YouTube Music to discover music, and pirate them too.
I don't subscribe to services. Why should I?
Not sure if Disney+ has this issue but I sometimes leave my Netflix tablet in airplane mode when going to another country. If the show is not available in that country when connected to the internet it will not allow play back of the shows I've downloaded.
Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.
I downloaded some stuff on the Disney app on my iPad for my flight to Greece last month and it worked perfectly.
I'm glad it worked for you. My problem is that if I can't trust it to work reliably I'm just going to use something else.
Get VLC Media Player or another similar of choice. Where it's easy for you to manage & watch/ listen to any media of choice.
Enjoy your upcoming travels.
VLC won't help you watch media which isn't there.
Sure it will. It fully supports streaming
Or, you know, if you accidentally typed a YouTube address into the wrong site, and somehow it ended up on your phone. Whoops. It could happen anywhere, even on a layover
Or if you're uncomfortable with that, Dr horrible's sing along blog is pubic domain, a bunch of big actors and writers made it during the first writers strike. I think the sequel is too. I think you can still download it off the official website... I've got a copy on my phone just in case I find myself desperate for offline content
Well yeah I use VLC for the stuff I've downloaded.