When /some/ YT videos get special download-resistent treatment but not others (fedia.io)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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For example, this invidious instance offers a download option for a YoutTube video, as that instance does for all YT videos:

~~https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg~~ (see update)

Exceptionally, if you opt to download it it merely opens a player to watch realtime. While other downloads from the same invidious instance have no issues. Why is this one getting different treatment?

update Apparently it’s an instance-specific problem with that particular video:

works → https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

broken → https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

I’ve seen other instances where this particular video download is broken. AFAIK, invidious.fdn.fr is the only place where it works as expected.

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[-] darcmage@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

I tried downloading from the link provided and it started downloading the file for me.

[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for pointing that out. It works for me too. I just happened to select a different instance where it actually works. Here’s the instance where it’s broken:

https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Try right clicking and "save as"? On mobile Safari it pops up with view and download as options.

[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

That’s is how I got around it in the past. For some reason that was not an option where I needed it (perhaps the browser I was using was locked down in some way). In any case, I’m wondering why the variation in behavior. Is this a bug in Invidious?

[-] darcmage@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Still downloading the file for me.

Edit: Tried it in chromium out of curiousity and I was able to reproduce your issue. Not sure why it works normally in firefox.

[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

Ungoogled Chromium indeed reproduces the issue. But so does the public library, which likely was Firefox in Windows. So i guess it might be hasty to conclude that it’s browser specific, particularly when other videos on the same instance behave differently in the same browser.