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I will give it a try later to see if it is easy enough to compare the two, so I can come up with a patch. Edit: let me check...

I don't think that plugin did anything special about this issue, [it just skips problematic MPDs](https://github.com/flashdagger/ytdlp-plugins/commit/4f63dad2fc1673185a2097dc553458f231886506). As for these these dash formats it does return, maybe it just extracted them...

yt-dlp typically does not probe individual formats since that would make excessive requests, IIRC. So not sure if it's easy to "fix" if metadata isn't already provided in other ways.

```diff diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py index 29fc1da1e..10e28e459 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py +++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py @@ -699,9 +699,11 @@ def _real_extract(self, url): webpage, 'title', fatal=False) if title: title = unescapeHTML(title) - json_data =...

Isn't the backend decided by the site itself? Like, a video will offer one or the other. Shouldn't it be automatically chosen?

Yeah but the extractor (yt-dlp) should detect which backend a specific episode uses, and use that backend automatically. Do older videos have both backends?

There is a lengthy discussion about which date should be used as which at #12282, please have a look. The addition of streaks backend complicates it even further (but may...

Hi @arabcoders , I assume your comment is meant to reply to me. It's less about which one is better (I don't mind your way), but just that it would...

> > Hi @arabcoders , I assume your comment is meant to reply to me. > > It's less about which one is better (I don't mind your way), but...

> I had the same problem until I made my user agent more complete. So, for example, not just _Mozilla/5.0_, but _Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0_ People use...