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Have you noticed YouTube heavily throttling unofficial clients lately? Maybe we really need a video delivery service that doesn't break every other day to plea

by zibzab 5y ago

Have you noticed YouTube heavily throttling unofficial clients lately? Maybe we really need a video delivery service that doesn't break every other day to please beancounters at Google.

contravariant 5y ago
If you mean youtube-dl then you might be better of migrating to yt-dlp. It doesn't look like youtube-dl is going to resolve those throttling issues any time soon.
- zibzab 5y ago
  Nope, Google is actively targeting different tools, yt-dlp included. It's a game of whack-a-mole right now.
  - deleted 5y ago
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ollybee 5y ago
Yes, I have a browser plugin to open youtube links in mpv, but it's been unusable recently with constant buffering. I dont even fetch them at best quality.
- circularfoyers 5y ago
  Are you using yt-dlp with mpv?
- Saint_Genet 5y ago
  Even the official client has been buffering heavily on iOS for the last two days. No idea what's going on, but I'm getting RealPlayer flashbacks.
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    Oh goodie, I am not the only one. I ran into this issue last night and YouTube app in my iPad is buffering heavily and stuck in 480p. My usual solution for this is to restart the iPad. Yup, have to restart the iPad because swipe-to-close didn't help.
- markvdb 5y ago
  pip install yt-dlp In ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf, add the following line, preferably near the top: script-opts-add=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp That should hopefully solve your issue.
  - mssdvd 5y ago
    You don't need to update the config if you have the latest version of mpv (0.34) released one month ago.
meibo 5y ago
Yes, if you don't provide a correct token that is calculated in heavily obfuscated javascript, the CDN will throttle you to kilobyte/s levels, basically making it impossible to watch anything real-time. The common way to deal with this seems to be to "emulate" the function calls on the input data, which seem to be randomized.

by zibzab 5y ago

Have you noticed YouTube heavily throttling unofficial clients lately? Maybe we really need a video delivery service that doesn't break every other day to please beancounters at Google.

contravariant 5y ago

If you mean youtube-dl then you might be better of migrating to yt-dlp. It doesn't look like youtube-dl is going to resolve those throttling issues any time soon.

zibzab 5y ago
Nope, Google is actively targeting different tools, yt-dlp included. It's a game of whack-a-mole right now.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

ollybee 5y ago

Yes, I have a browser plugin to open youtube links in mpv, but it's been unusable recently with constant buffering. I dont even fetch them at best quality.

circularfoyers 5y ago
Are you using yt-dlp with mpv?
Saint_Genet 5y ago
Even the official client has been buffering heavily on iOS for the last two days. No idea what's going on, but I'm getting RealPlayer flashbacks.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  Oh goodie, I am not the only one. I ran into this issue last night and YouTube app in my iPad is buffering heavily and stuck in 480p. My usual solution for this is to restart the iPad. Yup, have to restart the iPad because swipe-to-close didn't help.
markvdb 5y ago
pip install yt-dlp In ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf, add the following line, preferably near the top: script-opts-add=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp That should hopefully solve your issue.
- mssdvd 5y ago
  You don't need to update the config if you have the latest version of mpv (0.34) released one month ago.

meibo 5y ago

Yes, if you don't provide a correct token that is calculated in heavily obfuscated javascript, the CDN will throttle you to kilobyte/s levels, basically making it impossible to watch anything real-time. The common way to deal with this seems to be to "emulate" the function calls on the input data, which seem to be randomized.