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Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
https://invidious.io
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[Feature request] Allow download to override stream #4820

Closed nintendoeats closed 1 month ago

nintendoeats commented 1 month ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Streaming can be flaky, and inconsistent, either dropping down quality or stopping altogether. I personally also want to maintain an archive of my favourite videos.

The download feature, and other youtube downloading clients offer a solution but then you lose the youtube frontend (it's just a bunch of files in folders). It's ok, but not perfect.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like it if I could specify a server-side "download" folder, and have the option to tell Invidious to download a video to the server. Then I would like to be able to play the downloaded video from the server, directly from Invidious as though it were streaming from Youtube.

Describe alternatives you've considered AFAIK the main alternative is downloading to folders, possibly writing a new frontend to present that nicely.

Additional context My thought is that this feature is exclusively for local instances, and any public instance would turn it off (holy bandiwdth batman!).

unixfox commented 1 month ago

Out of scope. Use youtube-dl or yt-dlp for that.