Alright so my Video Players have stopped working about a week ago as it has for many many others i suppose. But i found the issue, and its obviously YouTube. Here are the Details of the Error “Loading failed. File not found, codec not supported, video resolution too high or insufficient system resources.” Or that is what you think the Details are. But the REAL reason why it isnt working is: “VideoError: [youtube] {Gibberish, idk if it should be leaked}: Sign in to confirm you�re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See FAQ · yt-dlp/yt-dlp Wiki · GitHub for how to manually pass cookies. Also see Extractors · yt-dlp/yt-dlp Wiki · GitHub for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies”.
So VRChat Players and especially VRChat Team, what is going on here? Are you not passing the Cookies for security reasons? What else can i do to provide more info and HOW do i fix the Issue?? Because now i finally got a REAL Reason, now its your job to find a fix, tell us the Security Risks or whatever and finally fix it.
Thank you.
That message is suggesting that you log into a google account and then pass that session to yt-dlp.
Personally I don’t want that done automatically because I don’t want a risk of google terminating my account because they don’t like what is being done through my account. VRChats use of youtube avoids their ads, and google considers that to be against their tos. Not sure how likely they are to actually care.
Alright, nothing happening? Why do VRC Devs not give us an easy option to use the cookies from the Browser? The Problem is getting really annoying. It started off in one World and is slowly breakin othe Video Players in other worlds permanently aswell now.
I would like SOME Sort of Feedback and a fix that doesnt require me to do a lot of work..
VRChat uses a custom version of YT-DLP that doesn’t allow you to pass cookies to it - simply replacing YT-DLP after the game is already running (as the game does a version check on the file at startup) with the official version of YT-DLP lets you use your browsers cookies
I made an app that does this automatically when you launch the game, you can find it over here :3
WARNING Using your Google Account cookies for this is a good way to get your account banned eventually. Google keeps getting more and more aggressive about this. This is likely one of many reasons VRChat blocks that feature in their build of the tool.
Remember, this is not authorized use of YouTube. They will keep fighting to break the compatibility of this feature (YouTube playback in VRChat).