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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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[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’re probably not gonna get metadata

You can do it using --write-info-json option [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)

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh thanks for letting me know about the metadata JSON, I had no idea it could do that