[Bug]: YouTube Movies cannot be played

[An-anonymous-coder]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

1. Find and open a YouTube Movie (here is one)
2. Depending on how you got there, different bugs will happen. If you used a direct link, you will get the "Legacy formats are not available for this video" error.

Trying to view the YouTube Movies account also has errors, not sure if that's related.

Expected Behavior

You should be able to view and watch the video.

Issue Labels

content not loading

FreeTube Version

v0.22.0-nightly-5291 Beta (e9aac86)

Operating System Version

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64 6.1.0-28-amd64

Installation Method

.deb

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

None

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[absidue]

Depending on how you got there, different bugs will happen

Please take a screenshot of the exact error messages. Usually other errors occur before that specific legacy formats one and the original error is much more important as that is also what triggered the other ones.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Im getting this

[absidue]

@efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc Please expand the Shaka-player data: array, the object inside of it should have more detailed information.

[An-anonymous-coder]

[An-anonymous-coder]

Not sure how expanded you need shaka-player Data to be. It goes on for quite awhile.

[An-anonymous-coder]

bundle-1733852567562.log

[absidue]

Okay so the fact that it is using an app:// URL means that there was no URL passed to the player.

Without looking into it too much myself it's possible that it is a movie without a trailer which isn't getting caught during the extraction process. So there is nothing for FreeTube to play (the movies themselves are DRM protected, just like with every streaming service).

[An-anonymous-coder]

Could FreeTube legally play DRM protected content? If not, would it be worth removing the option to play (open) movies?

[absidue]

Well when a trailer is available FreeTube shows that instead and the code should detect when there is no trailer and show an error but I guess this video manages to slip through those checks (I haven't got round to testing that video myself yet).

[An-anonymous-coder]

This just isn't movies. It's all my Christmas music too. This worked yesterday. For example, this song plays fine in the browser:

That is a different issue: #6328