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.

  • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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).