Video Player Error
RedMoon12
- I open vrchat and as usual just playing in some world
- I tried to play youtube on the video player but it says unable to load video or failed to play and video error
- I tried reinstalling and updating my drivers but it still can't play the video
- I tried to join another world to see if I got the same problem and yes i do run into the same problem
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WubTheCaptain
2026.02.23 20:39:52 Warning - [Video Playback] ERROR: [youtube] sRi5E1_pAik: Sign in to confirm you�re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies
I think this can be fixed by VRChat updating yt-dlp to 2026.02.21 which pulls in yt-dlp-ejs 0.5.0 fixing sig extraction in the main player variant. VRChat currently uses yt-dlp 2026.02.04 / yt-dlp-ejs 0.4.0, with incompatible sig extraction. I made a feature request: Update yt-dlp to 2026.02.21 to resolve YouTube playback issues