Streaming Movies With Linux

[RonB]

Just a report on the current state of movie streaming using Linux. I use
Firefox with Ublock Origin installed. The following services stream without
issue...

Hulu
Netflix
Disney Plus
Prime Video

RedBox
Google Play
FandangoNow
Movies Anywhere

Crackle (no ads)
TubiTV (no ads)
PopcornFlix (no ads)
Shout Factory
(and others like these last four, that most play weird crap)

What won't play?
Vudu (where we have most of our movies).

But the good news about Vudu is that Movies Anywhere is an aggregator like
the Ultra-Violet used to be – so, if a movie is on the Movies Anywhere
list, you can play movies bought and stored at Vudu, Fandango Now, Prime Video,
Apple TV, Google Play/YouTube, Microsoft Movies, Xfinity and Verizon.

For example, we have 58 movies on Vudu (more than half are our from DVDs
which they let you convert to Digital for $2 by using the app to scan their
barcodes) and 43 of those will play on Linux. So not all, but a whole lot
better than nothing.

(That said, we mostly play movies on Roku anyhow.)

--
"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some
kind of criminal activity." — John Brennan, ex-CIA Director

[anonlinuxuser]

On 5/13/20 7:39 PM, RonB wrote:
> Just a report on the current state of movie streaming using Linux. I use
> Firefox with Ublock Origin installed. The following services stream without
> issue...
>

This is very interesting. What is Ublock Origin?

[RonB]

On 2020-05-14, anonlinuxuser <linu...@noone.net> wrote:
> On 5/13/20 7:39 PM, RonB wrote:
>> Just a report on the current state of movie streaming using Linux. I use
>> Firefox with Ublock Origin installed. The following services stream without
>> issue...
>>
>
> This is very interesting. What is Ublock Origin?

It's an ad blocker that actually blocks ads.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?src=search

>> Hulu
>> Netflix
>> Disney Plus
>> Prime Video
>>
>> RedBox
>> Google Play
>> FandangoNow
>> Movies Anywhere
>>
>> Crackle (no ads)
>> TubiTV (no ads)
>> PopcornFlix (no ads)
>> Shout Factory
>> (and others like these last four, that most play weird crap)
>>
>> What won't play?
>> Vudu (where we have most of our movies).
>>
>> But the good news about Vudu is that Movies Anywhere is an aggregator like
>> the Ultra-Violet used to be – so, if a movie is on the Movies Anywhere
>> list, you can play movies bought and stored at Vudu, Fandango Now, Prime Video,
>> Apple TV, Google Play/YouTube, Microsoft Movies, Xfinity and Verizon.
>>
>> For example, we have 58 movies on Vudu (more than half are our from DVDs
>> which they let you convert to Digital for $2 by using the app to scan their
>> barcodes) and 43 of those will play on Linux. So not all, but a whole lot
>> better than nothing.
>>
>> (That said, we mostly play movies on Roku anyhow.)
>>
>

[anonlinuxuser]

Ah, ok. Firefox on mac has their own adblocker that works pretty good.
I don't register to get in free on these sites, so I use yandex to
search for free movies that I want to watch. No ads yet. Even on Youtube.

[RonB]

You don't have to sign into TubiTV, Crackle, Shout Factory (though most of
their stuff is old crap) or PopcornFlix (which looks to have about the same
selection as TubiTV). I don't watch that many movies any more, I just like
to see what Linux is capable of doing these days.

I'm also not connected to the cable, nor do I have any TV antenna. I haven't
watched TV (in the old sense) for about 12 years now. That means no
broadcast news for 12 years. (Though I do see bits and pieces of it on
YouTube.)

Just realized... my youngest son has never wateched broadcast television in
our house. Lucky kid.

[anonlinuxuser]

I did the same about 6 years ago. Saved a bunch of money.

>
> Just realized... my youngest son has never wateched broadcast television in
> our house. Lucky kid.
>

Very lucky. My previous employer said to get rid of the TV set. Too
much programming that could bias the analysis.
Kids don't need to see the crumby programs anyway.

[Rabid Roach]

Must be a good kid!



--
Rabid Roach / FSF member / Bitchute supporter

[RonB]

They still watch specific shows on various streaming stations, but at least
not all the crap that's on TV. I don't know about most TV shows until about
a decade after they came out.

[RonB]

He is a good kid. All my kids are. Lousy dad but a great mother!

[chrisv]

RonB wrote:

> Rabid Roach wrote:

>>
>> RonB wrote:
>>>
>>> Just realized... my youngest son has never wateched broadcast television in
>>> our house. Lucky kid.
>>
>> Must be a good kid!
>
>He is a good kid. All my kids are. Lousy dad but a great mother!

Heh. My daughter is so sweet and patient. We are like polar
opposites! 8)

--
"1% of the market even though it can be had for *free*." - some
thing

[Rabid Roach]

Well, if it was your decision to remove the TV and all of the other
globalist programming from the household, you can't say that you're
lousy. Maybe you're not affectionate enough, stern enough or present
enough, I don't know, but they'll never be able to say that you're not
looking out for their best interests. In the same way that I can say
that my dad was awful as a parent but a good provider, I think your kids
will eventually be able to look back at what you did and honestly say
what you did right and what you might have done wrong. Nobody's perfect
but good intentions are noticed.

[RonB]

Hopefully I was being a bit facetious... my kids and I are close. Once we're
done tending to my wife's parents in Idaho (my wife doesn't want them in a
nursing home, but they're declining fairly rapidly) we plan to move back to
Texas so we can be closer to our grown kids. And I hate Texas, but it's
worth it to have the family together and the grown kids are pretty much
settled in there. Besides, we have a grandchild coming in September. It IS
true, however, that I credit my wife for how well they came out. She's a
great mother (and wife). She did all the hard work — I just kind of coasted
along. (I guess I helped out here and there.)

[Rabid Roach]

I'm surprised that you were able to just pick up and move to another
state like that. Weren't there jobs or anything holding you guys in
Texas? I'd have a lot of trouble just leaving like that, no matter how
important it would be for me to do so.

[RonB]

We basically flew up with what we could carry in bags on the plane (at $48 a
ticket). My wife's business is mostly online now and I'm retired (kind of a
forced retirement because I'm partially disabled). Most of our crap is still
stored in my kids' garage in Texas (I went down and picked some of it up
last September when I picked up our car). It's amazing what you can do when
you feel it's necessary. (My wife felt this was necessary.) I wasn't too
happy about it, personally — not because I don't like Idaho, but because I'm
separated from half of my kids (and the ones here are close to their
brothers and sister, not to mention their cousins who also live in Texas).
Ideally I could get the whole extended family to move up here, but my
daughter's husband would never do that (he's close to his family) and my
daughter is going to be managing her own store soon (about the time the baby
is born), so it's going to have to go the other way. Texas is (ugh) in my
future. Provided the overblown, bullshit response to Covid-19 still allows
moving about in our own country by that time).