Do you want to host your own videos (then Jellyfin or Peertube are good options as others have mentioned) or archive YouTube videos? If the latter I can reccommend
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just archive them for myself. thanks for the reccomendation
Peertube is probably the most popular federated self-hosting video service available, although I'm not sure if it's the best for you. Just a suggestion. It does have an app as well.
looks promising. i'll give them a try
I use TubeArchivist and it is definitely the best YouTube downloading experience IMO. But it is not without some jank.
TIL! This is very cool looking. Thank you!
Enjoy!
This isn't more for sharing your downloads rather than selfhosting them but if your interested in getting YouTube videos away from YouTube torrent-tube does that. It's still early stages so it's hard to know if it will become popular but it might be worth a look.
is this made by one of the devs of Lemmy? I just noticed the github username
Yeah it is, There is a lemmy community for it on lemmy.ml
thanks, i'll take a look
Honestly would love something like this. I archive music videos and some gaming videos (e.g. E3 announcement trailers). I have them in folders on my computer, and in similar folders on my phone. I use Outplayer on iOS, I don't know what you'd use on Android. VLC was the go-to when I only had a few videos, but it doesn't support folders, which is kind of a weird hill to die on, but that's the stance they're taking. MX Player has folders, but even MX Player Pro has gotten enshittified over the years. (That's what my wife uses on her Android phone. I don't have videos stored on mine. I suspect I'd browse via Solid Explorer, and open them in VLC, since I view iOS as more of an "app ecosystem" and Android as more of a "computing environment", though they're really the same thing. They largely differ in policies. One is ad-supported and sells your personal data, the other doesn't allow sideloading.)
Jellyfin, though I don't think you can search subtitles directly in jellyfin. You'd have to grep the srt or video file itself, if embedded.
Yep.
I keep the subtitles as external files (as well as internal to the video) to provide flexibility for different clients.
SRT are just text files, so standard desktop search tools work.
I've not seen a media player setup that can search subtitle text.
Something like this?
Neat! That may be what OP's looking for