There are GUI programs that use yt-dlp underneath. I use YtDownloader, altho I haven’t tried it with an age-restricted video.

https://ohai.social/@klu9/115400874929871716

(Freetube definitely can’t view age-restricted videos.)

A download of the Stephen Chow film 回魂夜 (Out of the Dark) (1995) that I got with eMule in the late 00s/early 10s.

It’s a horror comedy, much of which takes place at night. Meaning it’s dark to begin with. But this copy was an RMVB file, a format developed to show a postage-stamp-size streaming video on a web page in the last days of the dial-up era. The video was so low res and dark barely anything was visible.

In addition the subtitles were of the shitty, burned-in, let’s-not-bother-paying-a-real-translator type. So I couldn’t see and I couldn’t understand anything 😅

Still got it on a DVD-R somewhere, though.

Got a few pirate VCDs in the late 90s to play on the Philips CD-i with FMV chip, like The Replacement Killers. Fortunately they were pretty good quality.

My first experience with lektors (thanks for teaching me the name!) was years ago with a season of M*A*S*H I got from P2P: one guy droning on in Russian over all the original actors’ voices. So I thought it was something exclusive to Russian pirate media! I mean, no one in their right mind with a legitimate licence to release media would put out something that shit , right??? 😆

Fortunately those files came with a secondary audio track that did not have the boring Russian guy droning over the actors, so I didn’t have to suffer through it.

But then last November I tried to watch (legitimately, not pirately) a Russian film, the action movie Одиночное плавание (The Detached Mission) (1985) and got… a lektor speaking over the dialogue. I resisted the urge to commit murder for 10 minutes (I really tried to give it a chance) before I quit in absolute rage at the boring f%&king c%nt talking over everyone!!! 🤣

To add insult to injury, the lektor was talking in Russian over characters who were speaking in English, so I had to read the English subtitles just to understand what English-speaking characters were saying!

My experience detailed here: https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube/p/1514124/full-movie-odinochnoe-plavanie-the-detached-mission-1985

The fact that there are countries in the free world today that still perpetrate this crime against humanity makes me want to cry! Give me subtitles or give me dubbing: anything but a f&%king lektor! 😆

Thanks for all that great info!

ATM I can only find the Onn Stick on the usual sites here. WIll keep looking for the box.

Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks.

• Re reset: does every power disconnection (blackout; unplugging) count as a reset, with an ONN requiring VPN to re-setup?
• Could a free VPN be used for ONN setup?

@moshbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com & @zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Thanks for the info.

• VPN would be an additional ongoing cost to consider.
• Looking into Stremio & Projectivity Launcher now, hopefully they can be used on non-geolocked devices available here in MX.