[Invidious] Merge the embedded YouTube link for the error page?

[NM64]

For the last few days, your invidious instance has basically always just returned an error when trying to access a video (with a couple exceptions that I got lucky on yesterday).

Since my primary interest in using Invidious is for the lighter weight "no nonsense" UI rather than full anonymity (I tend to watch videos in private browsing windows anyway), I regularly fall back to using the YouTube embed link when playback isn't working correctly.

The problem is that, because you can't just manually type in and go to the youtube embedded player as of around a year ago, you have to use a link with a proper referrer. But the pull request for the youtube embedded player never got officially merged, hence presumably why it's not present on your instance:

• https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5650

Would it be too much to ask if maybe you could reconsider? Is there really extra low-hanging fruit preventing the merger of that pull request? (I have extremely minimal software dev skills/ understanding of such things)

[tiekoetter]

I will look if it is still compatible.

[NM64]

Well it seems you fixed the constant errors when trying to access a video/description page, so maybe it's not all that time-critical after all.

[tiekoetter]

Yes I did some internal overhaul of invidious-companion video fetching and retry behavior. I also increased the compute power of the companion edge server. I will still look if this is possible to merge.