Browser transcoding addon with server?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨boo_@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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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SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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- vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨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).
  
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Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe piped can do this, idk

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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s a couple of 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 I will probably do the job

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- vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  You’re probably not gonna get metadata
  
  You can do it using –write-info-json option [1] and github.com/…/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]]](github.com/nodiscc/hecat#shaarli). Having a local copy of my bookmarked videos is nice (but takes quite a bit of disk space)
  
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  - 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oooh thanks for letting me know about the metadata JSON, I had no idea it could do that
    
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