I have a laptop with limited decoding capabilities with regards to royalty free formats, which YouTube tends to use, but I do prefer the quality that I get out of av1/vp9 encoded content on YouTube when using those on my home PC over what I get through h264ify.
What I do have, is a server which runs Jellyfin and can transcode content just fine. Is there any software I could host which could transcode videos I watch with a browser extension via my server?
Sorry if this is jumbled or unclear but it’s something that I would really have a use for, and if feasible, would even write myself.
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Well, you could download them with youtube-dl or something for later watching. I don’t know of anything that will proxy and transcode live, but even if you did that, you’d still have a loss of quality due to transcoding to a format your client supports.
you’d still have a loss of quality due to transcoding to a format your client supports.
If you have a fast network you could transcode to high-bitrate h264/h265 etc, which would have some quality loss but probably less than using h264 directly (due Youtube’s aggressive compression).
Maybe piped can do this, idk
There’s a couple of browser UIs for yt-dlp out there which you could configure to dump the videos into a folder configured in jellyfin. You’re probably not gonna get metadata, but it will probably do the job
You’re probably not gonna get metadata
You can do it using
--write-info-jsonoption [1] and https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin which reads metadata from yt-dlp’s .info.json files and displays it in Jellyfin.This is what I do - except I don’t use a Web UI, but a script that downloads videos I bookmark on my shaarli instance [1]. Having a local copy of my bookmarked videos is nice (but takes quite a bit of disk space)
Oooh thanks for letting me know about the metadata JSON, I had no idea it could do that
