yt-media-storage: GitHub Project for Encoding Files into YouTube Videos for Storage
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Summary
This article describes yt-media-storage, a GitHub project that encodes files into lossless video format for storage on YouTube, then decodes them back to original files. The tool supports both command-line and graphical interfaces, includes a CI/CD pipeline for automated builds, and requires FFmpeg for video processing. The project essentially uses YouTube as a free cloud storage solution by converting files into video format.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledStores files onto YouTube by encoding them into lossless video and decoding them back to the original file.
Supports both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface.
Visit my CI/CD pipeline, and click 'Login as Guest'. Visit the yt-media-storage project, click on the latest passing build, and click 'Artifacts' to download the latest build artifacts for both the CLI and GUI.
You may need to install some shared libraries (FFmpeg).
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