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.
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InterludeGwen
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GaridnAngel
I am having issues being able to watch the video player any video players with youtube that I know of. I don't know what is the issue.
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capacitytrash
When I try to put in a video link from youtube the video doesn't play and all it says is "unable to load video". I have cleared my Content Cache and that doesn't fix the problem. The video isn't age restricted either and I do have "allow untrusted urls" enabled.
Ordinary_night
i've been having this exact same issue for a few days now. it doesn't matter what video player i use it will still not work. i've cleared my cache, reinstalled, tried different worlds with different players, anything i can think of under the sun i've tried and i still get this error.
omou
Delete your yt and its configuration files (important if you have used a configuration file)
\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp.
VRChatCache\Tools\yt-dlp.conf
SwiftTheHedge
No matter what I do, the video players in VRChat refuses to function at all. I've tried restarting VRChat multiple times, verifying the integrity of VRChat, reinstalling VRChat, I even went as far as to alter the yt-mld thing to a newer version, but none of it works. If there is a fix to this, then I'd love to know very soon.
StormRel
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Salamitinhos
It has been a couple weeks by now, I have been searching everywhere on the internet, and even on VRChat's discord I see people talking about that a lot. Nothing fixes the Video player not working, please help the community!
nope_rope
same but for me only some links work and others don't and it doesn't matter if its in a public or not some just don't work
Ironstrom
Same issue started up for me around 2 weeks ago my error log has the same result also. Effecting most video players except udon player however my vrcdn and those type of links also don't work no more and I havn't been able to enjoy dj events for the last 2 weeks troubleshooting this issue. I can listen to the audio externally just fine if someone sends me a link to view on my browser.
(Update)
I fixed it in my case I changed my windows & vrchat default audio device (when running vrc) those seem like exactly the same thing but I did it at the same time so just in case.
I found a old github issue titled "[AVProVideo] Error: Loading failed. File not found, codec not supported, video resolution too high or insufficient system resources."
& just followed someones suggestion to change the default audio device. I wouldn't of thought they'd be problem since all other audio was working fine.
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