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.
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 to Youtube’s aggressive compression).
But I’m not aware of anything that ties it altogether either, especially if the OP needs browser support.
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
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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.
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 to Youtube’s aggressive compression).
But I’m not aware of anything that ties it altogether either, especially if the OP needs browser support.
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