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

Yeah, I’m aware of both of them but have spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out how to get them to work. I’m fairly new to Linux, and the instructions for both seem to assume a certain amount of expertise.

Oh, and as I type this I’ve remembered that I did manage to get one of them to work, but something to do with the way it downloads the videos means that you need to install a Plex plugin of some description because Plex won’t recognise the metadata or some shit.

So for the time being I’m happy enough to fanny about with my manual method. Between my wife and I it takes up about ten minutes every couple of days, and that’s ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah if small quantity it's not too bad to do your way. I use jellyfin so everything shows up ok for me, although it's weird to see the "wrong" thumbnails.

For me I've got everything as a docker setup using https://docs.linuxserver.io/ They don't have a tubesync one but I found they have good instructions for setting it up and that's how I learned enough to do so on my own with tubesync. But there is def a curve there.

My perfect ideal would be freetube as a web server just for browsing where I could hit the dl button and fire off a download command to my server, then it shows up in jellyfin or Plex. I... Haven't found a way to do this seamlessly yet, but I'm always on the lookout