Seedbox VM running on my Synology permanently routed through VPN running radarr, sonarr, jackett, plex. I find stuff either by searching what’s new for the month or by occasional subscriptions of the streaming services.

1. I mostly check predbs for releases from scene, imdb, youtube and everywhere.
2. Download for convenience. Multiple Devices, Data Caps and Internet Instability in my Country. qBittorent (Docker) with a couple of rules & rss. I don’t use -arr suite since I prefer to manually check the torrents
3. Old Haswell PC (Unraid) with HBA+DualNic in the closet
4. Plex & Jellyfin (Backup Solution)
5. Plex & Jellyfin (Backup Solution)

1. everywhere?

2. download. to download I use a bunch of websites through prowlarr/sonarr/radarr with qbittorrent nox for automatic downloading and importing to jellyfin

3. my server (laptop on my shelf)

4. jellyfin

5. jellyfin

Same as you, I also haven’t fully dipped my toes to the world of self-hosting (yet).

1. For non-animation movies/series, I wade through the popular/trending categories or read recommendation from friends, lemmy or, god forbid, reddit. I don’t really need to do this lately as my shows backlog is as long as my games backlog.
2. For convenience always. 720p is fine for me.
3. I stream. Unless it is one of my favorites I want to keep.
4. Real-debrid+Stremio.
5. Stremio does it for me. Also for anime, I have Anilist.

I was about to post my arr suite until i read your last line :D For recommendations i follow some youtube critics (like stories of old, mubi) who regularly provide recommendations and my tastes match with theirs. Then there’s reddit/lemmy movie forums. And i just use QBittorrents in built search to just download if i’m not tracking the movie/tv on my arr stack. And for playback locally i use mpv. I tried streaming services a long time ago but they are incredibly inconvenient compared to how flexible it is to watch/find something on torrents and the quality is also better.

Nice try, FBI.

1. Vuniper
2. Stream
3. Rclone
4. Plex
5. Plex

1. Mostly movies from yts . mx, and movies and tv shows from watchsomuch . to.
2. Mostly for convenience and I think information should be free. I cam back to the high seas after they decided to have 4,758 different streaming services and kind of hate exclusive as an excuse to get you to pay for one service over another.
3. I have a dedicated 6TB hard drive(wish I would have paid a bit extra for an 8 or 10 though). I also used it for rsync back ups but that’s it.
4. I switch back and forth between Jellyfin and Plex. Jellyfin is a bit fiddly but open, Plex “just work” but is closed source. I try to use free software as much as I can.
5. Both JF and Plex will keep track, but I’ve had issues with JF if a movie or show doesn’t want to run(I think it’s a transcoding issue) sometimes I lose progress of my most recent watched stuff. Kind of sucks. I’ve had more issues with JF than with Plex which sucks.

1. Where do you find what shows/films to watch?

I don’t discover it any certain way but once I know what I’m looking for I just search in qbittorrent. For anime I have RSS feeds set up.

2. Do you stream for convenience or download for superior quality?

I download.

3. Where do you store media?

Internal storage, currently some SSDs.

4. What software are you using to watch it?

mpv + fsr/Anime4K shaders.

5. How do you keep track of your watchlist, which episode you already watched or where you left off in a movie?

I use trackma/taiga with MAL for anime, for regular shows/movies I don’t use anything.

1. Jellyseer is what I use, also allows others to request stuff
2. I download via torrents, automated with the *arr suite
3. My seedbox, fast speeds also help with my ratio
4. Jellyfin, just because i prefeer FOSS
5. Jellyfin covers that, if i happen do delete some show then Jellyseer still remembers if i finished it or was only partially done

Lots of seedbox providers offer all these tools with their boxes so you dont need to host anything

• 1. I follow some release groups and just download stuff they release, other than that it’s either requests from friends or random finds.
• 2. Download (Torrent or yt-dlp for some niche stuff)
• 3. NAS in my living room.

• 4&5. Plex.

I search for stuff in qBittorrent and download it directly onto my home server using the web UI. I’ve got most of my family’s devices set up to be able to access it either via an NFS or SMB mount, and then it’s just a simple matter of opening the corresponding video in VLC.

1. I hear something there or from my friends. It’s funny, but our small Lemmy did make me watch a bunch of stuff, not by posts mostly but by references in comments. MOTHERLAND NEEDS YOU TO MAKE AT LEAST ONE MOVIE REFERENCE PER COMMENT;
2. I manually download it via qB and keep it seeding OR find it in VK if I’m short on time and it’s there. I don’t care about quality since I have shit for sight and can’t care, but I know how russian dub can either save or ruin things and not having a choice makes me avoid all streaming platfroms altogether, not to say what shitty companies own them and how their contemporary local-produced suggestion are irrelevant to me;
3. It sits on my non-system larger hard drive. I put it onto some USB stick to take it to where I can watch it with others;
4. On Win it’s MPC-HC\VLC, on Linux it’s VLC mostly. I’m still in a search of a Linux player that can find and play external subs and dubs itself without me clicking around;
5. Usually, just from my memory. Sometimes I put notes or send messages to myself at what point I stopped.

I use the *arr suite to manage things for me. There’s lidarr for music, radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for ebooks, bazarr for subtitles, and prowlarr to manage trackers/usenet.

I mostly hate when fat large torrents disappear, I use private trackers, but it is not for everyone, and sometimes they are slow to respond. But movie is not my speciality its music. Love it more ;0]