Error message in video: "The following content is not available on this app..."

[metrast]

I am on macOS and use the latest version of youtube-local 2.8.7 and on some videos i get these messages in the video player:

Some other videos work just fine.

The specific video I wanted to watch here was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjcx1rTQio

[MBCX]

Yeah. Same here too, though, for your video example it worked fine for me, but others not.

If you reload the video enough times the video eventually starts playing.

[fislysandi]

same there, it happens no matter the platform you are on.

seems like youtube doesnt like that we watch videos without loading all the javascript framework bloat.

[metrast]

Yeah. Same here too, though, for your video example it worked fine for me, but others not.

If you reload the video enough times the video eventually starts playing.

You are right. Reloading eventually fixes it.

[diegovskytl]

Same issue here, seems to be platform, browser and location independent.

[MBCX]

I've been bug-hunting this issue and I think I found a pattern.

At least to me, this error occurs only with not-seen-before videos, if you go to a video you already watch, the possibilities of this error occurring its lower.

I still don't know what is causing this and where its happening though.

My hypothesis is that maybe this could be related to #201, some out of date values in the code are triggering this.

[MBCX]

OK. Nevermind the above.

While debugging the application, the issue seems to be in how the app is extracting the video. Sometimes (pretty much at random), the extraction will "fail" and YouTube itself will return the infamous "Video Not Available" by "YouTube Viewers", which then results in what we see here.

[user234683]

Seemed to find the issue; made a new release. Let me know if it still doesn't work

[MBCX]

On my end, it works perfectly! Tested with 10 different videos and went OK

[MBCX]

Oh, nevermind, spoke too soon =(.

Link to video tested

[ericpa06]

It's affecting other alternative front-end for youtube as well. Related thread:

iv-org/invidious#4498

[user234683]

Since NewPipe doesn't seem to have the problem (no issue open and that video works), we should copy their extraction method

[dmbarrad]

same issue here, I think I might just give up on youtube entirely. this is just too much hustle to fix their own issues, and now they want to force it on us, I think abandonment is the way.