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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Wax7
My friends and I keep getting affected by this — sometimes we're blocked from YouTube for a day, sometimes even for an entire week. The problem is the increased bot protection due to too many anonymous requests.
The only solution: implement a login process for YouTube in VRChat. Even major platforms like Discord are facing this issue now.
This would solve two major problems at once: first, the blocking issues as described, and second, users would once again be able to stream videos in higher quality.
There’s nothing worse than worlds without sound, or group YouTube sessions where one person can’t join in.
So many people have been dealing with this problem for months now.
lun-4
The issue that has been merged doesn't seem to be the same as this current one, given the one reported here began in March, while the merged issue dates itself on January. Data has been provided from multiple world creators that suggest this is a different widespread issue because we can confirm timing.
This issue now contains completely unrelated comments. I would suggest for the merge to be reverted, as well as some kind of acknowledgement that internal investigation efforts by VRChat are aware of the research information posted on or after April 7th 2025.
StormRel
Merged in a post:
Youtube videos not playing in all video players
Cirno Baka
- Open VRChat.
- Go to any world with any video player.
- Have someone enter a Youtube video URL.
- Get playback error.
The error looks like this (more in the attached log):
2025.01.22 23:57:56 Log - [AVProVideo] Opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8OPtlBAxLE (offset 0) with API MediaFoundation
2025.01.22 23:57:56 Error - [AVProVideo] Error: Loading failed. File not found, codec not supported, video resolution too high or insufficient system resources.
More details:
Recently (around the middle/end of December 2024, can't remember an exact date) I started getting an error in all video players when trying to play videos from Youtube. Video links from other sites are working fine.
Also, if I create a private Invite instance, the videos are playing fine, but if I join an existing instance where someone is already playing a video, it doesn't work. I can even enter video links and they will play for my friends in the same instance, but not for me.
I can play affected links in my web browser just fine, so it's not a region block from youtube or my ISP.
What I've already tried:
* Clearing VRC cache
* Disabling my firewall
* Rebooting my router
* Disabled vsync in nvidia control panel
* Deleting yt-dlp.exe and replacing it with a version from github (by the way, if I feed a youtube link directly to yt-dlp.exe via windows command line, it's able to download video just fine)
None of the above helped.
Salbug
A lot of it has to do with this particular issue.
LED Lamp
It has something to do with VRChat's modifications to yt-dlp. If you download the same version yt-dlp.exe from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2025.03.27/yt-dlp.exe and drop it in %homepath%\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Tools\ while VRChat is running, the issue is gone.
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Basically everyday, your youtube world does not play videos only if I am lucky it plays 1 video. It doesn’t play many videos with others either. Please work on this problem. Good day.
GastonYamantaka
clearing cache worked yesterday but not just now
Multi-Frisk
Please fix this...
l3house1
yep same for me
awkwardscone
I've experienced this across different worlds, including YouTube video player world's and VRDancing. We've tried VPNs and a Video Cacher and it's still broken for me. Pushing for this to be fixed!!
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