YouTube videos fail to load frequently!
CMajor7
Starting with the 28th of March, I'm receiving very frequent reports of users that YouTube videos fail to load in my world. After some testing I concluded that it's other worlds too. To quantify this problem I ran some data and visualized it. Since the 28th, the Error rate of videos in my world increased to around 20%, meaning every 5th video fails to load. This also exactly lines up with when VRChat had the yt-dlp resolver updated for the last time.
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StormRel
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Video players aren't working in any of the worlds I go to.
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Yeetaroid
I literally can't play videos at all. None of them work. No idea why.
StormRel
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Video Error, Retrying
Fuzzy La Duzzy
- Open Vrchat, 2. Enter a normal movie or video player world,
- Put link of music in player, 4. it works for a while but then it stops working and says "Video Error, Retrying", but it works for everybody else in the world
StormRel
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Videoplayer Error
LovelyEnds
Video error when trying to load videos in ANY world. im in the US, simply cant load videos no matter what. I have tried multiple fixes but nothing seems to work.
StormRel
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Custom URL videos not playing, especially when untrusted URLs are enabled
NEONONYX
I was at a karaoke hangout when I was unable to see most videos especially mine, so I tried rejoining the world.. but nothing works. So I can assume this is some sort of bug or something.
StormRel
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Video players not working
OcarinaHolder
Go to a video player world and it gives an error
StormRel
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Video players not working
MysticMoo
[Video Playback] [PYI-30432:ERROR] Could not create temporary directory!
This is the error from my logs that I am getting when video players are not playing their music in worlds. I have tried updating certs, making sure caches are clear, and updating the yt-dlp file. Nothing seems to get players to work properly.
One day players just stopped working. This was about 1-2 months ago, and they have not worked properly since.
Occasionally, a player can be made to work when set to "stream" mode. But video mode will not work with many world players (the main one being tested is using usharp). Not all videos will play in stream mode either.
StormRel
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Video player doesn't work
FurMidnight
This about the fifth time now that video players will no linger load any and all content put on them with me using my meta quest 3
Wax7
And now TWITCH is making BOT Protections too!
perfectcolors
I had been experiencing the same issue with YouTube videos failing to load when reached through an HTTP redirect, as syncpulse described in a previous post. It now appears to be resolved for me with the recently updated yt-dlp version (2025.08.11) that VRChat is using
WhiteL_Dragon
I encountered the error "[PYI-21244:ERROR] Could not create temporary directory!" when playing a video and also in the command line during diagnostics. However, yt-dlp.exe runs correctly from the user's folder (tested with the command "yt-dlp.exe --version"). Checking environment variables and temporary folders showed everything was fine. The issue turned out to be related to the minimum integrity level for the program's folder. I resolved the problem using:
icacls "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Tools" /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)M
icacls "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Tools" /grant "%USERNAME%":(OI)(CI)M
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