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phdelightful ◴[15 Mar 25 16:51 UTC] No.43373667[source]▶
I basically have an even simpler version of something like this for my own personal use too. I found it pretty easy to write in Go and my area of expertise is decidedly not web frontend/backend. I’d recommend it as a fun little project if you’re looking for something to do.

For mine, I paste in a video or playlist URL and it downloads the video and creates a lower resolution transcoded version suitable for streaming to my phone. It also extracts an audio-only version in case that’s more appropriate.

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atomicnumber3 ◴[15 Mar 25 17:00 UTC] No.43373731[source]▶
I have one too, it's honestly a very fun area to program around, and I'm not going to be surprised if this thread is full of me-toos.

Mine is specifically meant to help get videos onto plex in exactly the way we want - with particular emphasis on playlists, taking the numbering and putting it in plex format, and transcoding any codecs (detected via ffprobe) i know certain shitty players (smart TVs) will have issues with. Along with putting it in the right spot on the filesystem with the right permissions and user+group set so it serves correctly over samba too (for management from windows / via GUI).

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1. toomuchtodo ◴[15 Mar 25 17:07 UTC] No.43373778[source]▶
Have a repo you can share?
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2. atomicnumber3 ◴[15 Mar 25 22:35 UTC] No.43375595[source]▶
No unfortunately, not only is it too tangled (not irredeemably, but I've never made an effort t try to make it cleanly ploppable) with the rest of my home-rails-server monolith, but the code is all also ridiculously bad, written in 2000 separate 5 minute scraps of time, all while standing up and holding at least one baby.

I call it "dadware".