Netflix seems to provide an app for Windows Laptops to watch titles offline. Chromebooks here too. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/54816 MacOS is absent, but I'm sure it's not too far off using an Google Chromebook emulator with Google Play Store in UTM if it's a must. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Netflix on moble apps allows for downloading for offline viewing Youtube also allows for offline downloads of selected videos in selected areas on mobile. Source: over 1 year ago

Get a Kill-A-Watt, or something similar and start seeing how much power those things draw. My mini fridge uses about 400 watts per day. Rather than getting a coffee pot, get a french press and a good thermos. And instead of the tv and dvd player, can you just have a couple of tablets instead? They use far less power. Netflix lets you download stuff to watch offline or you can rip those DVDs to mp4 files and copy... Source: over 1 year ago

Netflix, Hulu (and probably others) offer portions of their content offline. If you have the right subscription, you can download the titles you want ahead of time to your laptop, iPad, etc. & watch them later on your deployment w/out having to rely on wifi. Source: almost 2 years ago

Any streaming service has some hidden downsides, Netflix is no exception. For example, you don’t get to keep anything after watching it online, the video quality is limited by the bandwidth available to you at any given moment, and the watch process will be not that smooth if you have a poor connection. No matter what your reasons may be, many users tend to download the content from Netflix to devices for watching... Source: almost 2 years ago

For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. There are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be. The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source... Source: about 1 year ago

Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links. Source: about 1 year ago

I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. By inspecting the webpage (videojs.com). Source: over 1 year ago

Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago