ixigua ERROR: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte in position 0: invalid continuation/start byte

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cannot download ixigua videos

ERROR: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 1: invalid continuation byte

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• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
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Complete Verbose Output

yt-dlp.exe -vU -i -o "Z:\%(upload_date)s  %(title)s.%(ext)s" --ignore-config --hls-prefer-native --add-metadata --merge-output-format mp4 --cookies-from-browser firefox --referer https://www.ixigua.com/ https://www.ixigua.com/7205984803529851429

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-i', '-o', 'Z:\\%(upload_date)s  %(title)s.%(ext)s', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', '--add-metadata', '--merge-output-format', 'mp4', '--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', '--referer', 'https://www.ixigua.com/', 'https://www.ixigua.com/7205984803529851429']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp936, fs utf-8, pref cp936, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version master@2024.04.21.224157 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds [ff38a011d] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, curl_cffi-0.5.10, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.35.5, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890', 'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890', 'ftp': 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'}
Extracting cookies from firefox
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "C:\Users\Mechrevo\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\vah3au8q.default-release\cookies.sqlite"
Extracted 930 cookies from firefox
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds/releases/latest
Latest version: master@2024.04.21.224157 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds
yt-dlp is up to date (master@2024.04.21.224157 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds)
[Ixigua] Extracting URL: https://www.ixigua.com/7205984803529851429
[Ixigua] 720598480352985142: Downloading webpage
ERROR: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 0: invalid continuation byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1606, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1741, in __extract_info
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 734, in extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\ixigua.py", line 69, in _real_extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\ixigua.py", line 53, in _media_selector
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 0: invalid continuation byte

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I also encountered the same problem.

yt-dlp -vU "https://www.ixigua.com/7362315298386477620?logTag=a06efde5924b709e0c36" --referer https://www.ixigua.com/ --cookies-from-browser chrome

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.ixigua.com/7362315298386477620?logTag=a06efde5924b709e0c36', '--referer', 'https://www.ixigua.com/', '--cookies-from-browser', 'chrome']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [ff07792] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.12.0 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 7.0 (setts), ffprobe 7.0
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.41.2, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Extracting cookies from chrome
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "/Users/yuecl/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies"
[debug] using find-generic-password to obtain password from OSX keychain
Extracted 2044 cookies from chrome
[debug] cookie version breakdown: {'v10': 2109, 'other': 0, 'unencrypted': 5}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1810 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2024.04.09 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[Ixigua] Extracting URL: https://www.ixigua.com/7362315298386477620?logTag=a06efde5924b709e0c36
[Ixigua] 7362315298386477620: Downloading webpage
ERROR: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xaf in position 1: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1606, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1741, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 734, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/ixigua.py", line 70, in _real_extract
formats = list(self._media_selector(json_data.get('videoResource')))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/ixigua.py", line 54, in _media_selector
'url': base64.b64decode(media['main_url']).decode(),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xaf in position 1: invalid start byte