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Self Hosted Youtube Indivious vs viewtube

which is better? Or they do different things and I should host them both?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They are the same thing (YouTube self-hosted frontend alternative) with their own features I guess?

You should test Piped, Indivious and Viewtube and make your own opinion, however Viewtube has been paused so this one is probably not going to have the SABR workaround update Piped and Invidious are working on ?

Right now they are all a bit janky and unstable because of YouTube's new update (SABR, don't know the details) so find one that works as self-hosted and keep tuned.

If you're able to contribute as a dev though, give them some help to speed up the process and contribute to the best YouTube frontend alternatives projects !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does SABR stand for? Searching proved to not be very fruitful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Server Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, see https://github.com/LuanRT/googlevideo/blob/main/src/core/ServerAbrStream.ts. It's a format Google developed to be used by YouTube internally, there's no other service that uses it and thus it's also not supported by any player libraries.

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