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Any Freetube pros? Have a question (freetubeapp.io)

submitted 1 year ago by schwim@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My question is regarding vids that won't play. I don't know the reason for them not playing in Freetube(they are viewable on the YT site) but the one thing I've noticed is that the fallback methods have** never ever, not even once worked **in playing a video that failed to load.

Has anyone made changes in the settings that positively effected the second-chance playing of these problem videos?

Thanks for your time!

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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I've not used Freetube in a long time. But what I can say is to check if you have the latest version. In the latest available release of yt-dlp on Debian there is a bug where for some videos the Youtube servers would respond 403 Forbidden. It is fixed if you enable backports and install the newer release there. Might be related, might not. Depends if Freetube implements part of yt-dlp

[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's just the fallback that's failing for the occasional video, under settings > general settings > Fallback to Non-Preferred Backend on Failure: - Check that the invidious instance there actually works.

If it's happening regularly I would say there's something else because that's not normal, it used to be less reliable than it is now but it's been very good for the last year or so. Only very occasionally I have to fall back to using yt-dlp these days (unless of course I'm keeping the video).

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disable 'Proxy Videos Through Invidious', under 'Player Settings'.

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You can change the fallback and preferred API settings on the general settings section.