[Bug] 403 when trying to play videos longer than a minute on self-hosted instance

[ethanalker]

Describe the bug

On my self hosted instance, tube.ealker.com, videos longer than a minute recieve error 403 from YouTube. I tested this with many videos and it consistently fails on videos longer than a minute, and consistently works on videos shorter than a minute. This behavior occurs on both the actual website and through the yattee app, which I assume uses api. This happens regardless of proxy settings and regardless of quality settings, as far as I can tell.

Sometimes an error shows up with 'The media could not be loaded' with a single failed request, and sometimes a loading icon appears and buffers endlessly with repeated requests in the logs. I don't know what the cause is of this discrepency.

I don't have any idea why it's specifically vidoes shorter than a minute. Non-shorts videos that are shorter than a minute still work. It seems like shorts are always less than a minute and always work.

I remember longer videos working intermittently at some point, but now it very consistently only works with short videos.

Playing the same videos through mpv (using ffmpeg and yt-dlp) always works, and using a different instance also works (with or without proxy).

I read the FAQ and various other issues with similar problems and none of them fix the issue:

• The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. #3524
• [Bug] I can't watch videos #2055
• Video plays in browser but gets 403 via API #3503
• FAQ

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to tube.ealker.com (my self hosted instance)
2. Play any video longer than a minute
3. Video fails to play

Logs

Excerpt from invidious logs when trying to play two videos longer than a minute:

2023-08-17 17:42:11 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/cfc97iswJIc/mqdefault.jpg 73.26ms
2023-08-17 17:42:11 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/rRygY6UBvTc/mqdefault.jpg 90.32ms
2023-08-17 17:42:11 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/BdcrTmWAa_Y/mqdefault.jpg 61.07ms
2023-08-17 17:42:11 UTC [info] 403 GET /videoplayback?expire=1692315730&ei=8lveZNyMMeCg_9EPuvuxmAw&ip=129.21.149.175&id=o-AM9IbHtANtLopWRITNuxWZ8cG9D22zDlzANiwetyDGFz&itag=299&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=go&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-ab5sznzk%2Csn-ab5l6nrr&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=16&initcwndbps=1425000&spc=UWF9f_C1PWBKMdetZOIMpwela8g-rFx7Y4UrLFjvfg&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=614647096&dur=1155.916&lmt=1692227838975554&mt=1692293838&fvip=1&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246%2C51000024&c=ANDROID&txp=6309224&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRAIgITqcA120N2Chu1xn0kBcLDEXdm1jY7t0hQNj5KyW_KgCIGdjy17e8nDDyn7tTToLPg3K50z-v6AYCKQ_Fc8BzGuH&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRQIhAIzQWOyLX-u5CsRMO2roqp5kTASJu_EmFX7ThYxASlP5AiB1b-CMp5aecx05YmnaevStnjg-JKS_hG0PLWUN5eVgWw%3D%3D&host=rr1---sn-ab5sznzk.googlevideo.com 94.74ms
2023-08-17 17:42:15 UTC [info] 200 GET /api/v1/videos/cfc97iswJIc 727.13ms
2023-08-17 17:42:16 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/iACmmNf4kBw/mqdefault.jpg 69.95ms
2023-08-17 17:42:16 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/EAgnVFX2pl8/mqdefault.jpg 68.25ms
2023-08-17 17:42:16 UTC [info] 200 GET /vi/sk41pddVM48/mqdefault.jpg 70.77ms
2023-08-17 17:42:16 UTC [info] 403 GET /videoplayback?expire=1692315735&ei=91veZIqRGKCh_9EPs9WZiAM&ip=129.21.149.175&id=o-ALv48bzfef85PGCItMFiptu7rXiMghjixZIPnj1e6Rdk&itag=299&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=5T&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-ab5sznzl%2Csn-ab5l6nrl&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=16&initcwndbps=1425000&spc=UWF9f-XJ7jAex38IxZ1B6Ol2Ocd0d6xDKlnOkF3b6Q&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=612517497&dur=2979.766&lmt=1691738114088961&mt=1692293838&fvip=5&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246%2C24363392%2C51000011&c=ANDROID&txp=4432434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRAIgaDmM_GsaxKhB0rs3f0iO0kPK8VAKH2xRoJmHlh_beJoCIF0Xfxac0mqORQjz0VqwuV5hm58QzycQhjAXETtsSJxP&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAPSdxXGOMUJTbXdGN42c5rcKZug3iYCsdu4ASgiowZgiAiEA6mf4qNrfnaQZ_BFIBtHKJsyMQ8LcHPQI5GDZtyGKXLw%3D&host=rr2---sn-ab5sznzl.googlevideo.com 97.19ms

Excerpt from logs trying to play a video shorter than a minute:

2023-08-17 17:44:12 UTC [info] 206 GET /videoplayback?expire=1692315850&ei=alzeZKG1I4iB8gTEx5ToCA&ip=129.21.149.175&id=o-ANNa8aR6IxZNgGiLX38bTnIyAhvxC4qOEg8-MqP1fosg&itag=139&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=N1&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-ab5sznzr%2Csn-p5qlsnrr&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=16&initcwndbps=1096250&spc=UWF9f9sPwc1Ke4vWQsek3YFu6Vdl0qHwqFUIwVzIZQ&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=179984&dur=29.303&lmt=1692154259835620&mt=1692294078&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246%2C51000022&beids=24350017&c=ANDROID&txp=6308224&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRgIhAJqc1j3chEMmIuEFR42feU6BILqc7uPHV23rFq05fYzgAiEAob9Jq3kcJdXwGcGv9c2begMzjypZqtthLJoJRW8BI4Y%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhALnxLehWb81PMak27FkvHZTTZZ1cabXqD5PokTjQK2VhAiEAvALFfyiT2oBoNxPbKabXp1mUrGlHa8vrGhLo5AUS_FA%3D&host=rr2---sn-ab5sznzr.googlevideo.com 205.38ms
2023-08-17 17:44:12 UTC [info] 206 GET /videoplayback?expire=1692315850&ei=alzeZKG1I4iB8gTEx5ToCA&ip=129.21.149.175&id=o-ANNa8aR6IxZNgGiLX38bTnIyAhvxC4qOEg8-MqP1fosg&itag=299&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=N1&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-ab5sznzr%2Csn-p5qlsnrr&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=16&initcwndbps=1096250&spc=UWF9f9sPwc1Ke4vWQsek3YFu6Vdl0qHwqFUIwVzIZQ&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=10896628&dur=29.166&lmt=1692154268866936&mt=1692294078&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246%2C51000022&beids=24350017&c=ANDROID&txp=6309224&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAI429nj_JBleKnJ8NXCL0XQznm3VzllTZGsz74hFUlC7AiBxVq49Ac9nznjn0MJz4ZE14EUxDmE3hpD4VUtC8n6-gw%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhALnxLehWb81PMak27FkvHZTTZZ1cabXqD5PokTjQK2VhAiEAvALFfyiT2oBoNxPbKabXp1mUrGlHa8vrGhLo5AUS_FA%3D&host=rr2---sn-ab5sznzr.googlevideo.com 389.21ms

Additional context

• Host OS: Gentoo Linux x86_64
• Version: Rebuilt from master on 2023-08-17

[unixfox]

#4045