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Self-hosted YouTube frontend with some additional features (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by pezhore@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been running Viewtube in my homelab for my family after the actual YouTube started misbehaving. Was it because I use Firefox? DNS adblock? Unlock origin? Who knows!

I absolutely love that with Viewtube I can make the front page only my subscriptions. It seems to be relatively low on resource usage as well.

But lately, the lack of features is starting to get to me - namely closed captions and "Add to queue".

Are there any other self hosted options that are more feature rich in this regard?

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[-] DARbarian@kbin.run 9 points 2 years ago

Piped

[-] refreeze@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Invidious?

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Tube Archivist perhaps?

[-] tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Is that also a nice UI for watching? I thought it was only convenient for the downloading part

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah it has a simple UI for watching as well. It's really an all-in-one solution.

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My main prob with viewtube has been its flakey resolution auto or manual selection. The UI with it is weird and i basicially have to randomly click unclick autoselect , and switch between resolutions before it somehow lands on 1080 . Might be my browser and OS combo - macOS librewolf. Hosted on kde locally. Otherwise love it. But I dont use much other than search and watch. I use metube if I want to keep anything.

[-] magguzu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I haven't tried this, but a combo of

YTDLP subscribed to a playlist of your choice, downloading to a directory which you can mount to Jellyfin and make a library should work.

[-] haulyard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Are any of these solutions able to be used via an AppleTV?

[-] asbestos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Piped and invidious do, via Yattee

[-] haulyard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, will take a look.

[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

https://selfh.st/apps/?search=youtube

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Both Piped and Invidious have CC, but unfortunately no queue support.

this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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