hat tip
A man of culture.
If Smarttube goes tits up, that was basically my plan.
Archiving wise: the “forbidden resolution” (540p) gets a lot of bang for buck. I think I scoped out something like 3-4yrs of continuous content (playing 3-4hrs a day) would fit in 1TB. It was something stupid like 8,000 x 20 min YouTube vids.
In theory, you could create a seed bank of (say) 500GB of higher quality content, with weekly or monthly scrapes of new stuff with expiry based on views… but that’s how we get into 4AM over a engineering. Again.