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# EZown
Build your own digital library.
## Supported Features
- Search videos on **YouTube**
After acquiring the link from the clipboard you may choose what to do with this link:
- You may choose to **play** or **record** the video/stream using **mpv**.
- You may choose to **clip** the remote video with **FFmpeg**.
- You may choose to **download** the video with **audio** or **video** format using **yt-dlp**.
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Once you've downloaded the media files to your offline digital library you can:
- Easily search & open the offline files in the preferred applications.
- Select multiple video files to all be put in a playlist using **mpv**.
- Easily edit both videos & images for tedious tasks using **FFmpeg** & **ImageMagick**:
- **Strip**, **transcode**, **scale** & **clip** videos using **FFmpeg**.
- **Extract** & **insert** the chapter metadata file & **split** the video on chapters using **FFmpeg**.
- **Strip**, **convert format**, **resize**, **trim transparency** & **apply border-radius** using **ImageMagick**.
Workflow specific automation of tasks:
- Easily search & end processes running on your computer.
- Easily perform system actions, like restarting your computer.
## Dependencies
- dmenu
- xclip
- mpv
- ytfzf
- ffmpeg
- imagemagick
- exiftool
#### Recommendation
To create comfortable mpv settings. The command below creates a mpv.conf file that limits the quality of streamed videos to 1080p & always creates a 1280x720 mpv window. This might be good enough, but can be configured to your liking in more detail.
mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv && echo -e "ytdl-format='bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]'\ngeometry='1280x720'" > ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
## Usage
- ./rmt-action [Clipboard Link]
- **Param Nº1:** Skip dmenu Nº1 (./rmt-action 'Play')
- **Param Nº2:** Skip clipboard link (./rmt-action 'Play' 'https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=AhZqOYu5BOw')
- ./rmt-search [Acquire Link & Forward To ./rmt-action]
- **Param Nº1:** Skip dmenu Nº1 (./rmt-search 'Collateral 2004')
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- ./lcl-find [Local File Search]
- ./lcl-playlist [Multiple File Search]
- ./lcl-edit [Edit Video/Image]
- **Param Nº1:** Skip dmenu Nº1 (./lcl-edit '[Video]Strip')
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- ./lcl-kill [Kill Local Process]
- ./lcl-system [Perform System Action]
#### RSS
This script may act as another key to the puzzle of unfiltered interactions when used in combination with your RSS feed & its links.
## Why
You may never use these services, but a lot of good content is hosted on them created by good people, as discovery & revenue is easier than supplying independent content with your own digital infrastructure. But this dependence on a third-party service platform limits interactions with the hosted files. For security reasons- fearing abuse, legal reasons- fearing to support piracy on their platforms or business incentives that may not be inline with your values or use of the platform. One thing generally appreciated is the ability to store digital media offline, you might be going away on a trip without reliable internet or fear the site may not share your enthusiasm for the files being uploaded to their services. But this is made difficult & when available, is most always provided in a janky format that may not be very robust or censorship resistant. Streaming in its essence is interesting when you consider how it works, you stream files to your computer, but you're never supposed to download them to file, fearing you'll not need their services anymore, not use their platform as much or concerns around piracy of copyrighted material. To battle this, these services apply digital rights management or DRM making it as difficult as possible for you to regain this control of ownership of the files you stream to view.
Without the proper knowledge of the great projects, run by good people that create specific software to bypass these restrictions, will supply most people with a grave challenge. I've therefore composed a collection of scripts that make this process easier, gathering & gluing together some extremely powerful programs & scripts, configuring them to work easily bound to keys, searching for links, downloading the material contained within these links & maintaining a local history of these links. After downloading your own files, there are scripts to locate these files & play them offline instead. This is all possible by scraping these sites & bypassing restrictions. Avoiding even the need to open these sites & therefore avoiding the need for accounts, monthly subscriptions, identity verification, excessive bandwidth usage, ads & tracking.
In the past more people may have served content by their own distribution, but centralization makes things easy, & less technical people are attracted to create & distribute their works on platforms that are seemingly becoming more & more restrictive over time, with their increased size, nurtured dependence of their services & larger impact on peoples daily lives. These services & a lot of the major technology platforms are changing with the times of the world, moving their services into an ever more controlled & predictable environment for them over their users.
Building your own digital library is easier than ever before, the tools are there for you to use. It will minimize the dependence on these services, provide more flexibility how these files are used or shared, whether it is online or offline & regaining the control & subsequent power that was given up for the convenience these now very large services provide.
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