After joining an active VRDancing instance, I noticed that the custom URL videos would not play because of an "invalid URL" error. The displayed URLs were consistently missing the first three characters, which are "htt". That wasn't a problem for the videos played from the VRD databasem, only "custom URL" ones.
VRCX overlay also showed the URL without "htt" part in the beginning, so it's not a world UI problem. Other players not on persistence beta experienced no such issues. After switching back to the open-beta and joining the same instance, the problem did not appear.
Attached are the photos of the in-world error message with URL visible.