Just came across this error with the latest version of yt-dlp
2024.05.27
in all the years ive been using youtube-dl and yt-dlp thats the first time i have seen this error
normally you will get an error saying something like "site not supported"
looks like yt-dlp supported sites has removed sites that they think are used piracy
github.com
yt-dlp has bits of python code to scrape different sites for the video url
so it looks like they have removed the scrapers for lots of different sites from yt-dlp
maybe due to external pressure
which means that yt-dlp can no longer download from those sites
and because mpv uses yt-dlp in the backend it will no longer to able to play videos from those sites as well
i wonder how long before we see a fork of yt-dlp
2024.05.27
DO NOT open issues for it
in all the years ive been using youtube-dl and yt-dlp thats the first time i have seen this error
normally you will get an error saying something like "site not supported"
looks like yt-dlp supported sites has removed sites that they think are used piracy
yt-dlp/supportedsites.md at master · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp
github.com
yt-dlp has bits of python code to scrape different sites for the video url
so it looks like they have removed the scrapers for lots of different sites from yt-dlp
maybe due to external pressure
which means that yt-dlp can no longer download from those sites
and because mpv uses yt-dlp in the backend it will no longer to able to play videos from those sites as well
i wonder how long before we see a fork of yt-dlp