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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Glad you enjoy the only subscriptions view! I would love to work on the playlist feature to add likes, dislikes, watch later but i'm already struggling to have time to work on the watch history already. I'm currently using Freetube with my own Invidious instance which works great imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh snap, are you the developer of Viewtube? If so, first off - great job. I do the infrastructure side of IT for my day job but aside from some basic go, I couldn't code something like this to save my life.

I wish I had the chops to contribute to the project.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I'm only a contributor who mainly improved the homepage. You are still helping the project by using it and giving the creator and contributors feedback!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This should be fixed soon(tm) by the new player being worked on here: https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube/pull/2388.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Great to hear! I’ve perservered despite this as it’s great for me in all other respects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Piped and invidious do, via Yattee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks, will take a look.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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