For months I had trouble with the video player not working on every platform. Same issue. BUT I wasn’t having the problem UNTIL I did the PC download that is a popup after the first few times you close the game. Saying something like if you let them install it then you can click on links and it’l…

Oh I guess there isn’t a lot of discussion about this on these forums. [image] YouTube videos fail to load frequently! | Bug Reports | VRChat Starting with the 28th of March, I'm receiving very frequent reports of users that YouTube videos fail to load in my world. …

I have tried VPNs, other video players, Unity and AVPro. None of it worked. Even tried using someone else’s internet. Didn’t matter. Nobody seems to believe me when I say that it doesn’t seem to just be youtube blocking out an IP or some such.

Actually yes, I have, and it worked the one time I’ve gotten on, but we’ll see if that persists.

Video player not working still

Help!

WubTheCaptain February 1, 2026, 6:03am 4

Hi @KindReaper01, please try playing YouTube videos in VRChat now, VRChat has updated yt-dlp to 2026-01-29 today (formerly 2025-11-12). You may need to restart your VRChat client.

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Video player not working still

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