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Re:Browser extension and local backend that automatically ar... by computegabe on Saturday August 02, 2025 @01:51PM (#44769725)
Interesting. I was looking into creating an extension that manually manipulates and intercepts the vnd.yt-ump [1] requests, then use webcodecs to process everything in the browser.

[1]: https://github.com/gsuberland/UMP_Format/blob/main/UMP_Forma...

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Re:Browser extension and local backend that automatically ar... by fcpguru on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:09PM (#44769873)
oh wow, yeah https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp sounds like the easier path.
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