Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner

[Hasky23]

Context

Some videos are not playable with a message indicated bellow. It seems that YouTube plugin implementation is based on embed feature.

• Add-on Version: 7.0.1 (altered to go around Issue Video's don't play with "content not available on this app" error  #442)
• Kodi Version: 20.0.0
• Kodi GUI Language: English
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Operating System Language: US English

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Expected Behavior

It is desirable to be able to play some videos which was restricted to be played on YouTube website only. The message is indicated bellow.

It seems like YouTube add-on is based on embed feature of the service, the same message reproduced through "Share->embed" option.

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Current Behavior

YouTube add-on in Kodi produces following message

Video unavailable
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner
Watch on YouTube

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Steps to Reproduce

Please provide detailed steps for reproducing the issue.

1. in a web browser add a video s5qx1X78ujE in Liked Videos playlist
2. in Kodi launch YouTube add-on
3. try to play the video from Liked Videos section

Same message can be reproduced in web browser:

1. load any YouTube video in a browser
2. substitute video ID with s5qx1X78ujE
3. use 'Share->embed' feature
4. read the message

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Log

2023-05-10 14:53:37.545 T:11520 info : [plugin.video.youtube] Running: YouTube (7.0.1) on N***** (Kodi-20.0) with Python 3.8.15
Path: /
Params: {}
2023-05-10 14:53:42.004 T:11520 info : [plugin.video.youtube] Running: YouTube (7.0.1) on N***** (Kodi-20.0) with Python 3.8.15
Path: /channel/mine/playlist/LL/
Params: {}
2023-05-10 14:53:45.517 T:11520 info : [plugin.video.youtube] Running: YouTube (7.0.1) on N***** (Kodi-20.0) with Python 3.8.15
Path: /play/
Params: {'video_id': 's5qx1X78ujE'}
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : Traceback (most recent call last):

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : File "C:\bin\Users\Kodi_20\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\youtube_plugin\youtube\helper\yt_play.py", line 50, in play_video
video_streams = client.get_video_streams(context, video_id)

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : File "C:\bin\Users\Kodi_20\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\youtube_plugin\youtube\client\youtube.py", line 101, in get_video_streams
video_streams = video_info.load_stream_infos(video_id)

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : File "C:\bin\Users\Kodi_20\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\youtube_plugin\youtube\helper\video_info.py", line 542, in load_stream_infos
return self._method_get_video_info(video_id)

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : File "C:\bin\Users\Kodi_20\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\youtube_plugin\youtube\helper\video_info.py", line 886, in _method_get_video_info
raise YouTubeException(reason)

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : youtube_plugin.youtube.youtube_exceptions.YouTubeException: Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner

2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error :
2023-05-10 14:53:46.172 T:11520 error : [plugin.video.youtube] None
2023-05-10 14:53:46.189 T:14096 error : Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=s5qx1X78ujE]

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Additional Information

Inside Chrome web browser the video can be played successfully. Perhaps there is a way around this issue by making YouTube website 'to believe' that add-on is run in a web browser?

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[MoojMidge]

If you have altered the plugin to use the embedded client then this is expected.

Use the dev release instead:
https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases/tag/7.x.x-dev

[MoojMidge]

Closed by #506