Changes in how Youtube handles automatic captions
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Description
Youtube used to lump automatic captions together with provided subtitles. Now it's under the automatic_captions in the video's json metadata, making mpv unable to retrieve the auto captions.
- mpv version v0.37.0-271-gf5c4f0b0
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Reproduce the issue with mpv v0.37.0-271-gf5c4f0b0 using the linked video metadata, then trace how YouTube subtitle data is read. The work is done when captions under automatic_captions can be retrieved as subtitles.
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- Tech stack
- c
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- audio-video-rtc, cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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