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I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an intere

I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying. Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.

alexfromapex 6y ago
Yeah YouTube music works for me but no videos will play
alishan-l 6y ago
Same here. Must be a database of some sort.
jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
Let's see if you make it to the end. I usually have quite a bit of a video downloaded after a few minutes, to the point where I can unplug my network and still watch for a few minutes.
- herpderperator 6y ago
  I am watching the network tab continually request from https://r3---sn-n4v7sney.googlevideo.com/videoplayback https://r3---sn-n4v7sney.googlevideo.com/videoplayback and succeed each time. There is hardly any buffer, it's all loading successfully in real time.
Minor49er 6y ago
I noticed that the mobile UI was updated today. I'm guessing that it's a botched rollout of some bigger changes
- yreg 6y ago
  Many other services (Google Play, Twitter, …) are affected as well although not as much as YouTube.
girst 6y ago
given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3---<something>.googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database storing where streams are actually hosted.
- userbinator 6y ago
  In other words, the metadata service. The actual content servers are still up, so provided you know where the content is, you can still access it. (Does anyone still remember when you could easily download videos from YT by simply replacing "watch" with "get_video" in the URL? I miss those days... when corporate greed hadn't gotten to where it is today.)
  - shmerl 6y ago
    DASH isn't driven by greed really, it simply allows flexibly and seamlessly switching audio and video streams to vary quality. You can change resolution, and it still plays things continuously for you. But it makes it hard to download, unless you stitch all that on the receiving end, something that youtube-dl does. Greed and etc. were already piled on top of that with DRM, obfuscation and the like.
    - lovelyviking 6y ago
      youtube videos are drm protected?
      - boogies 6y ago
        That’s what the RIAA argued in the request that made their member Microsoft take down youtube-dl.
      - charrondev 6y ago
        Some of them are. IIRC the whole fiasco with YouTube-dl was because the repository had tests indicating how to decode DRM protected videos.
doctoboggan 6y ago
I too was able to watch a 2.5 hour video to completion, while not being able to load new videos during or after that.
dragonsngoblins 6y ago
Can confirm. I have a video which was already open and still plays. Interestingly I closed the tab and opened that video again and it still worked. I'm in Sydney
- deleted 6y ago
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lovelyviking 6y ago
Also long video 2.5hrs. Still plays after rebooting router, closing and reopening browser
kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about youtube specifically) Youtube likely has lots of moving parts to host all the different systems. Video content, search, browse, player, etc... could all be different bits. And it's also fun to know that video content itself may not be hosted directly by Google, as you could get it from the GGC (Google Global Cache)[0]. When you have a system as big as Youtube, you need to think about all the different ways you can slice different parts of the service. If any of those parts could be more optimized by having the data stored/sorted in some different way, it likely is. [0] https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en

alexfromapex 6y ago

Yeah YouTube music works for me but no videos will play

alishan-l 6y ago

Same here. Must be a database of some sort.

jacobwilliamroy 6y ago

Let's see if you make it to the end. I usually have quite a bit of a video downloaded after a few minutes, to the point where I can unplug my network and still watch for a few minutes.

herpderperator 6y ago
I am watching the network tab continually request from https://r3---sn-n4v7sney.googlevideo.com/videoplayback https://r3---sn-n4v7sney.googlevideo.com/videoplayback and succeed each time. There is hardly any buffer, it's all loading successfully in real time.

Minor49er 6y ago

I noticed that the mobile UI was updated today. I'm guessing that it's a botched rollout of some bigger changes

yreg 6y ago
Many other services (Google Play, Twitter, …) are affected as well although not as much as YouTube.

girst 6y ago

given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3---<something>.googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database storing where streams are actually hosted.

userbinator 6y ago
In other words, the metadata service. The actual content servers are still up, so provided you know where the content is, you can still access it. (Does anyone still remember when you could easily download videos from YT by simply replacing "watch" with "get_video" in the URL? I miss those days... when corporate greed hadn't gotten to where it is today.)
- shmerl 6y ago
  DASH isn't driven by greed really, it simply allows flexibly and seamlessly switching audio and video streams to vary quality. You can change resolution, and it still plays things continuously for you. But it makes it hard to download, unless you stitch all that on the receiving end, something that youtube-dl does. Greed and etc. were already piled on top of that with DRM, obfuscation and the like.
  - lovelyviking 6y ago
    youtube videos are drm protected?
    - boogies 6y ago
      That’s what the RIAA argued in the request that made their member Microsoft take down youtube-dl.
    - charrondev 6y ago
      Some of them are. IIRC the whole fiasco with YouTube-dl was because the repository had tests indicating how to decode DRM protected videos.

doctoboggan 6y ago

I too was able to watch a 2.5 hour video to completion, while not being able to load new videos during or after that.

dragonsngoblins 6y ago

Can confirm. I have a video which was already open and still plays. Interestingly I closed the tab and opened that video again and it still worked. I'm in Sydney

deleted 6y ago
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lovelyviking 6y ago

Also long video 2.5hrs. Still plays after rebooting router, closing and reopening browser

kyrra 6y ago

(googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about youtube specifically) Youtube likely has lots of moving parts to host all the different systems. Video content, search, browse, player, etc... could all be different bits. And it's also fun to know that video content itself may not be hosted directly by Google, as you could get it from the GGC (Google Global Cache)[0]. When you have a system as big as Youtube, you need to think about all the different ways you can slice different parts of the service. If any of those parts could be more optimized by having the data stored/sorted in some different way, it likely is. [0] https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en