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I mean, when I want to watch TV or Movies, I load it into my torrent program π΄ββ οΈ and let it download in the background. I could do the same with youtube videos.
I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like Pinchflat because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.
All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there's nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.
I had a time, when i had frequent internet disconnections, and connection speed was slow in general, so while i had the internet connection, i just downloaded a bunch of videos, to then watch offline. Suprisingly, downloading video even with slow internet is faster than streaming it, despite when streaming it, videos was always buffering. Now i have stable internet and i can just stream videos without the problem, even by using third party app with no ads and without account.
Yeah, I download whatever I want to watch and fire up vlc. 0 ads, 0 buffering.
Technically that's 100% buffering.
TouchΓ© :P
Technically VLC buffers 1.5 seconds by default which actually broke streaming over SSHFS (phone's filesystem mounted via KDE Connect) for me, had to increase buffer to 10 secs
Wait, you think all YouTube content is available in torrents?
I mean like the downloading aspect. There are a lot of youtube downloading tools available for practically every OS desktop or mobile (well except iOS)
You specifically said BitTorrent. Do you know how that works?