YouTube downloads fail as of 1 Dec 2022, MacOS, FireFox

[Matt Carter]

As of 1 Dec 2022, all videos and all resolutions, I have tried, example link below, have failed after about 2 seconds.  I only have WEBM file types as an option for downloading.  The errior message from VDH is below.  The example link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxxLTCFa88.

I can download from other sites.

I am on MacOS 12.5.1.  FireFox 107.0.1 

I recently upgraded to that version of FireFox and believe I was able to download from YouTube after the install. 

I have read reports on this forum that the problem is with YouTube changes.  I wanted to try to submit a proper support request to try and help but this maybe moot.  Good Luck.

Error message below:

Could not get information from media 'excavator digging comparison - with and without engcon tiltrotator - film 1 - YouTube' from file '/var/folders/v3/w9hmfp5s3d56cm7kw6ptfymc0000gn/T/vdh-32330yLoSdCmpZh2n.tmp'. The file might be corrupted.{ "file": "/var/folders/v3/w9hmfp5s3d56cm7kw6ptfymc0000gn/T/vdh-32330yLoSdCmpZh2n.tmp", "stat": { "dev": 16777220, "mode": 33188, "nlink": 1, "uid": 501, "gid": 20, "rdev": 0, "blksize": 4096, "ino": 12996737043, "size": 1555, "blocks": 8, "atimeMs": 1670001102397.5134, "mtimeMs": 1670001102379.3855, "ctimeMs": 1670001102379.3855, "birthtimeMs": 1670001101959.8286, "atime": "2022-12-02T17:11:42.398Z", "mtime": "2022-12-02T17:11:42.379Z", "ctime": "2022-12-02T17:11:42.379Z", "birthtime": "2022-12-02T17:11:41.960Z" } } Exit code: 1 ffprobe version n4.0-1-ga5b047e-vdhcoapp Copyright (c) 2007-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1) configuration: --arch=x86_64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --extra-version=vdhcoapp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --prefix=/Users/mig/vdhcoapp/converter/src-build/mac/64/converter-build --enable-version3 --extra-cflags=-I/Users/mig/vdhcoapp/converter/src-build/mac/64/deps/include --extra-ldflags='-L/Users/mig/vdhcoapp/converter/src-build/mac/64/deps/lib -L/Users/mig/vdhcoapp/converter/src-build/mac/64/zlib' --pkg-config=pkg-config --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-encoder=libvpx-vp9 --enable-libwebp --enable-zlib --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libx265 --enable-libtheora --enable-libaom --disable-doc libavutil 56. 14.100 / 56. 14.100 libavcodec 58. 18.100 / 58. 18.100 libavformat 58. 12.100 / 58. 12.100 libavdevice 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 libavfilter 7. 16.100 / 7. 16.100 libswscale 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100 libswresample 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 libpostproc 55. 1.100 / 55. 1.100 /var/folders/v3/w9hmfp5s3d56cm7kw6ptfymc0000gn/T/vdh-32330yLoSdCmpZh2n.tmp: Invalid data found when processing input

[Wild Willy]

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