Video Takes a Long Time to Load - Same video performs differently daily about xcdyoutubekit HOT 11 OPEN

I've been experiencing this since about a week ago as well.
This has been a topic of discussion in youtube-dl for a while, and it seems like YouTube sometimes randomly throttles the download speed for a URL to about 50~70kb.
If you retry by getting a new URL (by executing a new XCDYoutubeKit request) a couple of times it eventually will get a URL that is capable of a normal download speed, but this can sometimes take up to 10 tries and is not exactly a pretty solution.

There seems to be a specific parameter (n) in the mp4 URL that is encrypted, and if this encryption is solved you will be able to get a steady URL every time, but this encryption method seems to vary depending on the video and I have not found a way to solve it on iOS.
According to the youtube-dl discussion, this has been solved in another python library called yt-dlp, where I guess they have managed to crack the encryption.

If anyone has a solution I would be thrilled to hear about it.

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Thanks for the suggestion @fightveryexplosion

I applied some changes from ytdlp which seem to fix the slowdown. Feel free to try it out in #552

Edit: I didn't do anything encryption related, it's just a different API and some parameter tweaks.

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I have been experiencing this issue. It takes 30-60s to play a video.

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Facing with the same issue, but time is MUCH longer. To play the 5-6 minutes video it takes up to 7 minutes to load it... Awful. The WebView approach works better, but the configuration much worse. But nothing have to do, except switch to WebView solution

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@kbex-dev I tried your code, but I see it still slow to load a video.

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@huynguyencong That's disappointing. We haven't noticed any throttled videos in our testing (20+ videos) whereas we encountered it almost every time before.

Do you have a video link I can try on my end?

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@kbex-dev For example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4H_Zoh7G5A . It take more than 20s but can't play.

This is the pod in my Pod file:
pod 'XCDYouTubeKit', :git => 'https://github.com/kbex-dev/XCDYouTubeKit.git'

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@huynguyencong That's disappointing. We haven't noticed any throttled videos in our testing (20+ videos) whereas we encountered it almost every time before.

Do you have a video link I can try on my end?

often buffing at 50-70 kb/s

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I did some testing on VPN (until I ran out of free data). It seemed to work better on US and EU regions than Asia. Where are you connecting from @frozenthrone? I won't be able to spend more time on this, since it seems to work for our target regions.

It may be worth testing what APIs yt-dlp uses and what speed you get with it? Perhaps they do something different depending on region.

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pod 'XCDYouTubeKit', :git => 'https://github.com/kbex-dev/XCDYouTubeKit.git'

This worked for me, thanks allot @kbex-dev

The package has been pretty unreliable over the last few months 👎

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The same for me.
The caching takes up several minutes.

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