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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.
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
TouchΓ© :P
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?