I wonder if this post has anything to do with the unmanic API outage earlier today, lol. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I'd done wrong until I finally convinced myself there must be a cloud-side outage impacting the plugin browser. By the time I figured it out they came back online and the plugins were browsable again, but I lost hours over this stupid problem.

Today's outage perfectly illustrated why we choose to self-host in the first place. I too would love to see a completely self-contained foss solution for this service. Some clever shell scripting is probably all you really need to perform automated ffmpeg calls, but individually containerized services are clearly what we all prefer. I do wish I had more time to code...