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  1. Hi all

    Has anyone figured out how to circumvent YouTube's SABR Protection?

    This is extremely frustrating, and has broken a lot of things, including my workflows.

    VideoDownloadHelper seems to with some videos, but some UHD videos just don't download.

    Thanks in advance
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  2. what is YouTube SABR Protection ? explain and share a video link just example
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  3. Originally Posted by LZAA View Post
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    [notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.0.1 -> 25.2
    [notice] To update, run: python3.11 -m pip install --upgrade pip
    paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$ mpv --ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=2160]+bestaudio/best" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ"
    [ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
    [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred
    Failed to recognize file format.
    Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
    paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$ yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --format "bestvideo+bestaudio/best" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ"
    Extracting cookies from firefox
    Extracted 1834 cookies from firefox
    [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcD4CTt3ZaQ
    [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading webpage
    [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv client config
    [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv player API JSON
    [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading tv simply player API JSON
    [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Downloading player 17ad44a3-main
    WARNING: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
    player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/17ad44a3/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
    Please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
    WARNING: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more details
    WARNING: Only images are available for download. use --list-formats to see them
    ERROR: [youtube] dcD4CTt3ZaQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats
    paul@paul-Lenovo-ideapad-510-15ISK:~$
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    go to update yt-dlp 25.2 then you will be fine
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  5. Thanks guys getting another issue with youtube - unsure if this is related but this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEJTUMZ1b0 I get error 403 forbidden.

    Any idea why?

    I am certain something was changed
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