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Seems like a fairly mature and well maintained project. Can be fired up in DevContainer for hacking.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It's sad how self contained now means "only" one docker image

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Spun it up. Works great. Thank you so much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Does that jellyfin compatibility work for Emby?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It creates nfo files which emby can read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

It should be fine, it’s not a direct integration for plex at least, but rather it formats the files as MP4 so they can be read correctly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is Plex support in the cards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

The readme says "First-class support for media center apps like Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It already has Plex support but OP didn't feel like mentioning it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Plex has boundary issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well... plex support in that it can chuck files into a structure that plex understands. It doesn't seem to notify plex to rescan libraries...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No, that's an entire external service + a script.

Requires running https://github.com/Cloudbox/autoscan and that custom script.

At that point I might as well tell plex to rescan the library every x hours itself.

Edit: I forgot to add this even though I meant to

Autoscan, A-Train and Bernard are no longer actively maintained.

And that github... it no longer maintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Nice. I am gonna give this a shot

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it support sponsor block? Like cut out the sponsor sections from the downloaded videos?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Nice thanks. I’ll try setting it up later then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

How does this differ from tune archivist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Guessing it's not a dead/halted project?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It does name management on the files for other players. Such as plex, emby, jellyfin, or kodi. About all I see that's any special here.

Edit: seems to also do some metadata magic for plex at the very least to make it somewhat usable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

How quickly those this flood your storage?

Currently I ran invidious in docker. The solution is … just okay, performance isn’t great. But at least you only stream whatever you pick for watching.

I only follow around 15 channels. For simplicity 10 video are added daily to my subscription feed.

Are there privacy concerns with this solution. This together with ad blocking were my main drivers for invidious.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only thing I'm missing is the ability to only download a subset of videos from a channel. There is a workaround by making a playlist but I believe that requires a Google account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yah, I think that's what the author suggests as well. Unfortunate, maybe make a feature request or a PR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

TubeSync has a regex filter for this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Only other alternative I can see is a custom script that it supports with some gnarly allow list

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn I've been looking for something just like this, but my setup doesn't use docker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had all my servers running on my personal Windows machine, and I've been planning to move them to a dedicated Linux machine, as well as move to Linux on my PC. Part of that involved containerizing my whole setup to make the move easier. There's a script listed in Jellyfin docs that helps you migrate your setup. Itzs a bit involved if you're coming from Windows but very doable. Very easy if you're already on Linux though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My media setup is on a Linux VPS configured with Swizzin community edition. I tried a bunch of docker-based projects over the years but could never quite get my head around it. A good friend of mine just redid his whole setup with docker tho, so maybe if/when mine breaks I'll give it another shot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I despised the thought of another layer adding to the difficulty of troubleshooting problems, it took me a long time to make myself try it. And sometimes it does make you have to think a bit about what it's doing under the hood but if you commit to it and work with it, it's such a great way to silo your services. I wouldnt' go back now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I definitely struggled to wrap my head around it at first, but I got used to using it when I got into DevOps, and once you understand it, it becomes so easy and helpful that it's easy to overuse it. I can certainly answer any questions to the best of my ability if you do look into it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it support logging in to YouTube to have access to purchased content, premium content, subscribers-only content, etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since it uses yt-dlp which supports cookies, I would guess it does or it will soon. Not sure about how yt handles "purchased" content, but the cookies work for age restricted videos at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I have been looking for something just like this, thanks