Video players not working?

[StickNardoragon]

Just curious if it's me or not.
Video players either straight-up don't work for me, or they loop the first couple of seconds of a video about ten times, then stop working entirely.

[シャドウ]

I have had this issue, and have yet to find a fix for it. I am not sure what the issue is or even if the issue is a bug within VRChat or something more. It sometimes says to turn on "allow URLs" or whatever, but that doesn't really fix it when I do that. I can suggest some worlds that seem to have Video Players that work and haven't gave me issues if you want. But that's all I can really offer, because I don't know why the video players in some worlds just refuse to work.

[Doranos]

TBH, I think the last Unity update is what broke video player...

[Blue]

Video players do not work with either Windows 7 or Linux if you use these OS.

[711baconlover]

i updtaed my video drivers and that seemed to fix it in this one world

[Lord Daro]

I also a had problem on my windows 7 system. I eventually found out, that video players now use a newer external programm called yt-dlp.exe.
(as opposed to the older youtube-dl I was familiar with)
So for me the fix was to download a version that works with win7 from githup and place it into the folder that holds external assets on the current game version:
C:\Users\*UserName*\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Tools

Maybe this can help someone else aswell.

EDIT: I haven't found out yet how to stop VRchat from automatically updating the file, so for the time being I need to replace it with the win7 version every time I enter a room with video player.

[76561199403801087]

Originally posted by Blu_Blakk:

Video players do not work with either Windows 7 or Linux if you use these OS.

They do if you use the file from github (dot) com/pypy-vrc/youtube-dl-pypy

follow the directions at the bottom of that page to get video playback working in vrchat on windows 7. The official version didn't work for me and I had to rename the one at the bottom of that page to yt-dlp.exe then you need to set it as read only. I haven't fully tested this in every single room but I did get results that I hadn't gotten with any other method. So it is very much possible to make videos work on windows 7 you just have to do a little work the developers can't be bothered with.

[Bunkerotter]

Originally posted by sethreign8103:

[...] you just have to do a little work the developers can't be bothered with.

They can't be bothered with because Windows 7 is EOL and not maintained or supported anymore.