A hint on 403 issue (yt-dlp still manages to downloadl

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A hint on 403 issue (yt-dlp still manages to downloadl #3629

Open acostaja opened 1 month ago

acostaja commented 1 month ago

Today's 403 issue is affecting every independent YouTube player, even yt-dlp but yt-dlp still manages to successfully download videos but the first minute or so seems scrambled (not encrypted just scrambled like old analog tv cable), after few skip under vlc the video plays fine.

Pls take note and close.

Daniel15 commented 1 month ago

The first minute is likely an ad that's been embedded into the video, maybe in some format that VLC doesn't understand? YouTube are testing that at the moment.