Initial implementation of youtube-automate

A DVR for YouTube subscriptions, laid out so Jellyfin presents each channel
as a show and each video as an episode. Cron-driven, idempotent, with a
public admin UI for a non-operator.

Verified end to end on susan against three real channels: PO tokens, h264
downloads, Jellyfin resolution from local NFOs with all providers disabled,
retention and tombstones.

Corrections to the original design handover (specs.md documents each with
the evidence, and specs.handover-original.md preserves the original):

- The format sort selected 360p. Ranking acodec above res makes `bv*` prefer
  the combined 360p stream, which carries AAC, over the 720p video-only
  stream whose acodec is none. vcodec now leads, so a video without h264 at
  720p yields h264 lower down rather than VP9 this hardware cannot transcode.
- yt-dlp now requires a JS runtime and the yt-dlp-ejs solver scripts, which
  only ship with the [default] extra. Without them the n challenge fails and
  the mweb formats disappear entirely.
- --flat-playlist carries no upload dates, so the specced client-side date
  filter for backfill was impossible. Backfill is RSS-first.
- skipped_old was terminal, so raising a channel's retention appeared to do
  nothing. Added an explicit rescan.
- is_upcoming premieres now defer and retry instead of being skipped forever.
- TubeArchivist is gone, so the media root and the tube.jihakuz.xyz vhost
  were both reclaimed; the latter still pointed at its dead port.

240 offline tests, no network and no real yt-dlp invocation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# youtube-automate — add these to susan's crontab (`crontab -e`).
#
# HC_API_URL is already set at the top of susan's crontab; these entries follow
# the existing one-UUID-per-job convention.
#
# `sg mediaserver` matches how the radio jobs run and guarantees new files are
# group-owned by mediaserver even if the invoking shell's primary group differs.
# Poll, download and reap. Hourly is ample for single-digit channels.
17 * * * * runitor -uuid 41a4d61a-7743-43d9-9b5d-d37d536e4726 -- sg mediaserver "/usr/local/bin/youtube-automate run"
# Keep yt-dlp current, then re-run doctor. Mondays at 04:40.
40 4 * * 1 runitor -uuid 721e4cf0-d796-48e7-a184-79d21e1ba373 -- /opt/youtube-automate/deploy/update-ytdlp.sh