No matter what app I use now for YouTube, I’m having issues with buffering. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Has Google finally found a way to hamper non-Premium users?

  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    God damn - I had this idea myself! Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

    I was thinking of an additional step of having it transcode overnight to a more mobile phone friendly resolution, like let’s say 480p, as well as introducing a time to live (TTL) so that I don’t end up with an ever expanding YouTube library that never gets watched.

    Actually I seem to recall there was a YouTube something (Youtube custodian? Something like that) that did all this for you directly. But I think I would like to try doing it as a cron job because it could run on low end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.

    • brawndo@piefed.socialEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      I started with a Raspberry Pi connected to an external hard drive. As my collection grew I built a server. It has NAS rated drives in RAID with a low end CPU and modest GPU. Now I have a large collection and everything is transcoded on the fly.

      I also use the server to host Immich. So I no longer need to use Google photos or drive.