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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World video players refusing to play or load
Forte_K
I checked in multiple worlds and I noticed that the video players are refusing to play no matter which world I go to. Even the video player in my home world has stopped working. Just wanted to see if this a me thing or if it was a VRChat problem.
WubTheCaptain
Forte_K When creating a bug report, please post logs as an attachment and include steps to reproduce the issue.
If this is about YouTube videos, then the issue is tracked there (you've been blocked as a bot by YouTube, or have network issues): YouTube videos fail to load frequently!
Forte_K
WubTheCaptain I don't know how to post logs and I don't know how to even find them. Also YouTube on my headset works perfectly. I figured out how to check my headsets connection with YouTube.
WubTheCaptain
Forte_K The instructions for logs are linked in my previous response. Without steps to reproduce (what URL was watched, where), or preferably logs to diagnose, this will go nowhere.
"YouTube on my headset works perfectly" - in what way? VRChat uses a third-party yt-dlp program to download videos, which is not the same as using a native YouTube app on a Meta Quest HMD for example.
Forte_K
WubTheCaptain I have a Meta quest 3 with the YouTube app and I'll try the link but it'll have to be when I get on my headset it's charging RN and I don't like playing with it well charging.
StormRel
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Video player error :(
sᴋʀᴜɴᴋʟʙᴜɴᴋʟ
Video players aren’t working, but for some reason it’s working for a few of my other friends. I’m not sure why it’s not working, every time I try to put on a video it just shows “Video error, retrying” and then after a while of waiting it just removes it from the queue. None of the video players across any maps work, I’ve only been able to watch movies in popcorn palace. This has been going on for 4 days.
WubTheCaptain
Plausible duplicate, if you are trying to play YouTube videos while YouTube has blocked you as a bot: https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/youtube-videos-fail-to-load-frequently
Griff0n
I found out recently that world creators using a whitelist in the video players in unity need to remove the characters * at the beginning and / at the end for domains to work & add non default domains to the whitelist on the website. ( this works with video players from protv ) Examples :
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Kᴏris
I just had the video player bug start happening to me as well. My friend has been dealing with the issue for weeks, but it worked fine for me up until today when I booted up Unity to fix up an avatar's audiolink, and had to try to use audiolink testing in Unity via a Youtube link, which promptly didn't work at all. So I figured I'd test in VRC, and the youtube links no longer work.
Hopefully someone can find a way to fix or workaround this issue soon. ;c
MyStrength․
I have been having same issue for weeks.
Videos suddenly stopped working and the only way around it is to use vpn.
I have called my service provider who confirmed they are not blocking any video players or vrchat and to contact vrchat directly.
I have contacted vrchat who seem to not provide any solution or reasoning behind the issue, instead vrchat has asked me to change the dns and follow the vrchat help desk page guidelines which I already have done and have not resolved the issue.
Having to pay for vpn just to use video players in vrchat is unfair especially when I’m also a paid subscriber for vrchat.
Please vrchat give us a solution or make an announcement of what the issue is. I find myself having to pick between either getting vpn or paying for vrchat subscription.
nichevo
This error seems to be happening 95% of the time now, both on live and beta. Most YouTube video URLs do not work and produce an error. Sometimes it's working for other people though, and the occasional video does work for me.
I've tried using a VPN in case YouTube was blocking my IP, but no luck.
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
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