Can't play/download certain YouTube videos

[Phoenix616]

Trying to play or download certain videos seems to be failing. They player just loads for a long time and the downloader fails with a 404 error.

The only video with this issue that I've encountered so far is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdELRPEbX4A

It seems to play fine on the website or official app but other third party players (noticed it in Kodi first) seem to fail too.

[theScrabi]

Noticed invideo.us has similar issues. Could you test if you can download the video using youtube-dl? Maybe they have a solution.

[omarroth]

Invidious will sometimes have issues with playback since users download the video from a different IP from where the video is requested. See iv-org/invidious#92, you should be able to fix this with &local=true.

I'm able to play/download the video linked in Invidious, youtube-dl, and NewPipe. I expect though the issue in this case is similar to fent/node-ytdl-core#417. To paraphrase: the video signature sometimes needs to be added as a different param name than &signature=. See also ytdl-org/youtube-dl#18927.

This line likely needs to be changed to something like:

streamUrl = streamUrl + tags.get("sp") + decryptSignature(tags.get("s"), decryptionCode);

Similar to this line in Invidious.

[hp8wvvvgnj6asjm7]

Same here since two weeks.. please when do you release an update?

[AudricV]

This issue should have been fixed (non-progressive/unavailable streams have been hidden since 0.20.0 and extraction of streams with signatureCiphers is handled properly), that's why I am closing this issue.

If that's not the case, please let us know.

Thank you!