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.
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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
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)
Oooh thanks for letting me know about the metadata JSON, I had no idea it could do that
Maybe piped can do this, idk