YouTube video play stopped today suddenly (Windows 10)

[wade-w6]

SMPlayer has worked fine for YouTube viewing for months, but today it stopped in the middle of a playlist of several videos and now plays nothing from YouTube. It still plays local videos and videos from other streaming services. It seems like somebody at YT threw a switch and changed something. Anybody else experiencing this problem?

[ThomasSeeker]

Same here. Also since yesterday.
:-(

[vasilis74]

Same here from yesterday. Note, my browser also redirects all links to m.youtube.

Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 5.4.0-139-generic x86_64
MATE 1.24.0

SMPlayer © 2006-2021 Ricardo Villalba [email protected]
Version: 22.7.0 (revision 10091)
Using Qt 5.12.8 (compiled with Qt 5.12.8)
Using MPV 0.32.0

[smplayer-dev]

It's still working for me.

[wade-w6]

There was a Windows 10 update that automatically installed Wednesday. I wondered if that had anything to do with it. I updated to the latest version of SMPlayer yesterday (22.7.0) and it didn't help. I'm thinking I'll watch for a Player update in the next week or two.

[ThomasSeeker]

There was a Windows 10 update that automatically installed Wednesday. I wondered if that had anything to do with it. I updated to the latest version of SMPlayer yesterday (22.7.0) and it didn't help. I'm thinking I'll watch for a Player update in the next week or two.

vasilis74 and I, we both run Linux. So it has nothing to do with Windows.

[smplayer-dev]

Try updating yt-dlp using the option Install / Update Youtube support from the menu Help. It should install version 2023.02.17.

[ThomasSeeker]

Updating yt-dlp to todays new version 2023.02.17 solves the problem for me.
Thank you Ricardo for the help!

SMPlayer is the best! ;-)

[wade-w6]

Yes, the yt-dlp update worked for me, too. Thanks much for the help. I had not noticed there was a separate way to update YouTube support. I'll remember to check that next time.

[zhouxinghong]

Also not accessible with latest yt-dlp so far, eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0NfUoZPbU
Windows 10

[CoreyPenIT]

Try updating yt-dlp using the option Install / Update Youtube support from the menu Help. It should install version 2023.02.17.

I didn't realise that was an option, thanks. I think I still prefer my method of creating a symlink in the smplayer directory pointing to a yt-dlp.exe in my system path, where I can update from console with yt-dlp -U

This is usally the issue though, for future reference. yt-dlp has updates fairly often between smplayer releases and it's a good idea to keep it up to date with whatever method you use, for most that will be through smplayer gui.