Exceptionally, if you opt to download it it merely opens a player to watch realtime. While other downloads from the same invidious instance have no issues. Why is this one getting different treatment?

update Apparently it’s an instance-specific problem with that particular video:

works → https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

broken → https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

I’ve seen other instances where this particular video download is broken. AFAIK, invidious.fdn.fr is the only place where it works as expected.

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[–] Nomad 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is your browser handling the content disposition wrongly.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Why would a browser handle it incorrectly for one video on one invidious instance, but not for most other videos and other instances?

Note that I’ve seen this broken behavior both in my own Chromium installation as well as Firefox in Windows as a public library.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 points 2 years ago

There are a few reasons this might be the case!

The instance's UI might not be declaring that a or button element as a resource meant to be downloaded.
The instance's web server might not have declared the downloadable file's mime type as a resource. (Apache, nginx.)
Your operating system might not recognize the file type as a thing to be downloaded, or your browser isn't telling it to download to a file.

It's probably 1 or 2 if you're seeing the same behavior across multiple browsers and OS.

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

yt-dlp works fine.

[–] darcmage@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried downloading from the link provided and it started downloading the file for me.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for pointing that out. It works for me too. I just happened to select a different instance where it actually works. Here’s the instance where it’s broken:

https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

[–] darcmage@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Still downloading the file for me.

Edit: Tried it in chromium out of curiousity and I was able to reproduce your issue. Not sure why it works normally in firefox.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

Ungoogled Chromium indeed reproduces the issue. But so does the public library, which likely was Firefox in Windows. So i guess it might be hasty to conclude that it’s browser specific, particularly when other videos on the same instance behave differently in the same browser.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try right clicking and "save as"? On mobile Safari it pops up with view and download as options.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

That’s is how I got around it in the past. For some reason that was not an option where I needed it (perhaps the browser I was using was locked down in some way). In any case, I’m wondering why the variation in behavior. Is this a bug in Invidious?