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CuriosityStream mentions (42)

• YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

  Personally, one solution is to subsrcibe for Nebula + CurisoityStream bundle to support creators (bought 2 subscriptions for me and friend) https://curiositystream.com/?coupon=nebula and use something like PeerTube for the rest of the stuff. Youtube have great catalogue of the lectures and other educational material, so it is still kinda irreplaceable. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

  Oh man, let me help you find other content platforms! What are you interested in?! I use these non cable/network platforms: * dropout.tv <- comedy produced shows, hilarious * https://curiositystream.com/ <- full to the brim with documentaries and educational content * https://www.pbs.org/explore/ <- it's PBS, but online! * https://www.britbox.com/us/ <- British TV shows! So many good ones... And then there are... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Is there a documentary published somewhere about whats happening in the world mainly about india- pakistan, taliban isis, israel palestine, russia ukraine?

  Https://curiositystream.com/ Their are many, many documentaries on each of those places and conflicts, from all sides. Source: about 1 year ago

• Myasishchev VM-T Atlant, NATO Code: Mod Bison. The Atlant first flew in 1981 and made its first flight with cargo in January 1982.

  The founder of the Discovery channel has gone on to create CuriosityStream. It feels very similar to the Discovery channel of the 90's. Source: about 1 year ago

• CuriosityStream 4K

  I'm Looking for someone who loves watching documentaries Https://curiositystream.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

MPV mentions (227)

• Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

  Https://mpv.io/ has yt-dlp support, if yt-dlp is installed you just need to throw the URL at it and it plays the video (without download). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Video stops on furst frame, audio continues to play,seek works

  I apologise for not following procedure. I am in the middle of building mpv 0.37 from source. Irrespective of the outcome I will document what I had to do in addition to the instructions on mpv.io and if the problem perststs, where it happens and where not with kernel version, mpv version taken from the screen, and the terminal output. Source: 5 months ago

• S23 8k video freezes when played on VLC computer

  Use MPV. Partticularily shinchiro's builds. Extract the folder where you want its installation directory to be, if you decide to install it. Otherwise, just drag and drop files on top of its window or executable. Source: 6 months ago

• Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations

  Https://mpv.io played it without fuss. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

  One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself. ¹ https://mpv.io... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago