Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies

Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by rmc on Friday September 02, 2011 @07:45AM (#2953746)

I'm even done with sketchy torrent sites, and different scene groups fighting over who gets to release what, and a billion codecs and formats.

What torrent sites have you ben using? I use tvtorrents, demonoid and thepiratebay, and they are great. "Billion codecs"?! my media player (totem on linux) can play them all, I don't know what codecs they are in. I never notice anything about groups fighting, there's always a file there, sometimes more than one. Doesn't matter to me if there's > 1 file. "Sketchy sites" might apply if you're using windows, which is insecure, but I use Linux and it's fine.

IME torrent sites are some of the best (and often only) ways to get lots of music, tv and film.

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by cookiecaper on Friday September 02, 2011 @08:10AM (#2953798)

GStreamer is definitely the lower rung in Linux media playback. If you haven't tried them yet, consider using mplayer2 or at least VLC instead of totem.

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by rmc on Friday September 02, 2011 @08:37AM (#2953852)

GStreamer has worked well for me. VLC and mplayer also are able to handle all formats that are thrown at it.

What media players can't play every single format?

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