This is where the issue of mentally unstable community comes into play.
Did you even look up other posts and forums about the issue you are having as well as HOW LONG it’s been an issue that’s been very well explained and documented as to what’s going on
Video players break 99% of the time because YT flagged you as a bot, you will have to wait out the flagging before the video player will work. Streams will work just fine regardless
Avatar search worlds… so um… what about them. There is not one detail here explaining what issue you are having other than video players and avatar search worlds. Not one detail
I suggest taking up some time to learn how to send a bug report.
What Topic
What issue
Describe the issue
How does it happen and can it be replicated
Share log files
What about the 1% of the time it isn’t a YT issue? My video player’s been broken for over a year now, and not just youtube. VR tech support ran through trouble shooting until they just gave up. To be fair: They weren’t the first person I asked who gave up. It’s getting to the point where I’m considering reinstalling my OS.
And it’s self righteous high horsers like you that causes a divide.
I provided crash reports, logs. Times. Dates. EVERYTHING that would be needed because I know how this all works.
I told them this as well.
ALL video players are broken.
ALL of them tell me that the video format is incorrect. Streams don’t work. And I get the SAME error in avatar search worlds when using the search bar.
I’ve been playing this game for two years and this problem started about five months ago.
It can be replicated easily by going into ANY world that has a videoplayer/searchbar and trying to use it to do ANYTHING. Streams don’t work either.
Desktop steam, PCVR through meta app, even standalone quest. I also tried phone version same issue.
On top of that I tried using a different account that a friend let me borrow to test it with because they aren’t having any issues and it STILL happened. I’ve tried VPNs, fresh installs, every thing under the sun that would normally work and nothing. I have a direct wired connection into my internet and I get about 200MBs speeds.
They have completely ignored me and told me it’s my problem and not theirs. Literally, that’s what the first person I talked to said before they closed the ticket.
I think you may need some glasses because I did just describe my issue actually.
If that isn’t clear enough for you.
Video players and search worlds are having the same issue.
Starting with video players though, the explicit error it gives is that the wrong media type is trying to be played. I already said the video didn’t matter, and links to streams don’t work either. And not just youtube links. Links from ANY video playing service.
And before you say it’s a hardware issue, the issue persists on different computers, headsets and platforms. Even separate accounts. Even when using a VPN. Even after redownloading the game FULLY after erasing EVERY file from VRC on my computer and reinstalling.
If this isn’t clear enough, then I think you’re the problem you were ‘pointing out’.
Im gonna be honest, Im laughing because I feel like it could be just a you thing. I dunno what kind of stuff you run on the side of vrc or what OS or even how old your hardware is. But you say it happens on “all” devices.. I find that kind of a stretch. How about testing it on your buddies computer when you go over there(changing accounts is obviously not gonna change the result). because if it works on other peoples devices then its something obviously on your end.
Other than that
Navigate to C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Tools\.
Delete the existing yt-dlp.exe file.
Download the latestyt-dlp.exe from its official GitHub page and place it in that folder.
Right-click the new file, go to Properties, and check “Read-only” to prevent VRChat from overwriting it
if this doesnt work, good luck to ya bud. maybe the universe is telling you to not get on vrc
I tried both of those things. And you don’t have to believe me but all devices I’ve tried don’t work with video players. My account doesn’t work with video players on his PC either.
And I’ve tried replacing the DLP file also. Seven times.
Hmm, after looking a bit online, it seems that the issue is related to cloudflare fucking something up on your connection.
Cloudflare is a Third Party provider (that vrchat probably uses in some way), so that could be the cause of both your issues.
The HTTP 526 seems to be notable for TLS Certificates being wrong.
I’m suspecting maybe this issue is region related.
This will be a personal question so you don’t have to respond, but could you maybe share in what country you are living in and what Internet provider you are using, that way while looking online we may find similar cloudflare issues on other games like that.
