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ErsatzTV and Synoogy and Plex notes:

Ersatztv Version: 0.8.4 beta (Jan 2024)
Hardware transcoding = use vaapi docker image

720P profile using QSV has been very smooth/stable streaming locally or remotely in Plex, settings below:

1280x720
Thread Count: 0
Format: h264

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:: Quick way to download youtube vids via yt-dlp
:: Set yt-dlpLOC to where yt-dlp.exe resides
:: yt-dlp set to embed thumbnails and metadata
:: set to force US geolocation and use best quality options
:: outputs video files as mp4
:: Opens up folder where videos are saevd to once completed
:: Seamonkey420 3/10/2022
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@echo off

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yt-dlp.exe -f b --geo-bypass-country US --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --compat-options embed-metadata -P "D:/Downloads/YT"  YOUTUBEURLHERE/

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:: Can be integrated into explorer shell
:: and right click menus too
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:: Requirements: copy ffmpeg to c:\windows\system32
:: env variables needed to parse spaces in file paths!
:: pick one of the below sets of code, top replaces all audio with an ac3 one
:: bottom adds an ac3 stream and retains everything else, video, subs, audio.

:: below will encode main audio stream to ac3 as only audio and keep all video, subtitles
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion

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#1. Install RPi.GPIO. Open up Putty and run these commands:
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install python-pip python-dev gcc
apt-get install python-setuptools
pip install rpi.gpio

#1a. Enable root to make things easier, you can disable afterwards, type and then enter a root password:
sudo passwd