Sharing Youtube link to Kodi/OSMC gives "One or more items failed to play" error

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Issue description:
Hello,

I have been unable to get Youtube links shared to Kodi/OSMC via Yatse to play when not using the Youtube app. It results in a generic “One or more items failed to play” error. I have attached the Yatse debug logs, and below are the section of the Kodi logs where Kodi attempts to play.

The option in Kodi Helper Script (which is installed) “Preferred addon for Youtube urls” is set to none.

The Youtube app is disabled or uninstalled (I have tried both), with the DASH option unchecked if still installed.

My understanding is that Yatse does not need the Kodi Youtube addon to cast Youtube links so this should work? If I am mistaken please let me know, perhaps there are other addons or plugins I am missing here to make this functionality work.

It worked fine via the Youtube plugin WHEN the Youtube plugin works, which seems to be infrequently, alas… which is why I was hoping to get this functionality via Yatse working independent of the Youtube plugin.

Thank you for any time/direction here.

2025-02-05 01:52:03.227 T:5808  warning <general>: [script.yatse.kodi] b'Url resolved by YoutubeDL: https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p'
2025-02-05 01:52:03.274 T:5808  warning <general>: [script.yatse.kodi] b'Is audio: False | Is picture: False'
2025-02-05 01:52:03.274 T:5808  warning <general>: Setting most video properties through ListItem.setInfo() is deprecated and might be removed in future Kodi versions. Please use the respective setter in InfoTagVideo.
2025-02-05 01:52:03.275 T:5808  warning <general>: ListItem.setUniqueIDs() is deprecated and might be removed in future Kodi versions. Please use InfoTagVideo.setUniqueIDs().
2025-02-05 01:52:03.275 T:5808  warning <general>: [script.yatse.kodi] b'Playing url: https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/92.0.4515.159%20Safari/537.36&Accept=text/html%2Capplication/xhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication/xml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C%2A/%2A%3Bq%3D0.8&Accept-Language=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5&Sec-Fetch-Mode=navigate'
2025-02-05 01:52:03.310 T:538      info <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/92.0.4515.159%20Safari/537.36&Accept=text/html%2Capplication/xhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication/xml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C%2A/%2A%3Bq%3D0.8&Accept-Language=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5&Sec-Fetch-Mode=navigate
2025-02-05 01:52:03.317 T:5821     info <general>: Creating InputStream
2025-02-05 01:52:03.395 T:5821    error <general>: CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0xf152bc20) Failed: HTTP returned code 403
2025-02-05 01:52:03.397 T:5821    error <general>: CCurlFile::Open - <https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p> Failed with code 403:
                                                   
2025-02-05 01:52:03.397 T:5821    error <general>: CFileCache::Open - <https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/92.0.4515.159%20Safari/537.36&Accept=text/html%2Capplication/xhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication/xml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C%2A/%2A%3Bq%3D0.8&Accept-Language=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5&Sec-Fetch-Mode=navigate> failed to open
2025-02-05 01:52:03.398 T:5821    error <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [https://rr3---sn-q4fl6nzy.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1738763522&ei=ohijZ6LXC6HzsfIPh-mO0Qo&ip=69.232.63.157&id=o-AOInEuCAT7UxYrh5Ms57JHyicYcIHHLn_AEJCP5m_iXJ&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1738741922%2C&mh=8r&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4fl6nzy%2Csn-q4fzene7&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1463750&bui=AY2Et-PY1g0cAmMlMrofelTtJ6Fv_OvtSjBT7EA5tQnt0B1V4vruaLCa7Z1wi9xcujsS-LDpK7vuLPb8&spc=9kzgDSAj0v-pMStW_4tZpk3r11t3avtB5CD9MBzcCjHH7Itk_RcXncaCBYb23mepW-Eqs0ePpA&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=Fg9EG7tVZLjzLLRA9bX6KxwQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=569051921&ratebypass=yes&dur=12790.990&lmt=1738723738751062&mt=1738741487&fvip=1&fexp=51326932%2C51355912%2C51371294%2C51398364&c=WEB&sefc=1&txp=7209224&n=FURhxwE00dsODeUC4&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgNGr7UCvCdWuVeyB7V3yuSMNd98z34r8tmz9lhzFgWNgCIQDXcXFTFBr4GOzc_ytUOrPoP5WxCC4BU8cPiUlRwbxNzA%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgEAovf-lBpF8UoCEI5PvnJseTeMnomQI_2gMiU8D0a-MCIDvAMEhqxHDK0umbQIeb8HP1by8lBuuwfqIdBcV5kH9p|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/92.0.4515.159%20Safari/537.36&Accept=text/html%2Capplication/xhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication/xml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C%2A/%2A%3Bq%3D0.8&Accept-Language=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5&Sec-Fetch-Mode=navigate]
2025-02-05 01:52:03.398 T:5821     info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2025-02-05 01:52:03.446 T:538      info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2025-02-05 01:52:03.447 T:538      info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2025-02-05 01:52:03.447 T:538      info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2025-02-05 01:52:03.742 T:4353    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Kodi is not playing any file
2025-02-05 01:52:04.858 T:670      info <general>: JSONRPC Server: Disconnection detected

Logs: (Join files do not paste the content of the files here !)

Screenshots:

Additional information:
debug-20250205_013146.zip (7.8 KB)

The function works without the plugin but it seems Google have added new securities as even if the extraction works it 403 :frowning:

Maybe they do not like Kodi headers now, not sure there will be a fix, it’s a mouse and cat game.

Thanks for the explanation and that is too bad. But I understand it’s outside of any developer’s control. I think it’s the same explanation probably for the issues with the YouTube addon.