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Are you sure this is merely mildly infuriating?

Have you considered setting up a virtual drive throuh RCLONE and use encrypted cloud storage?

I did one of the subtitle translations a while back, seem to remember it had to be done with open/free use licence. I’d be surprised if you can’t just re-edit the video to make it shorter and more to the point.

A bit like this?

peertube.fr/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYK…

If that’s not a bridge then I got a bridge to sell you!

I like Navidrome, it also supports the… Subsonic(?) protocol so one can use dedicated apps with on-device caching, which is nice for mobile devices without unlimited data.