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What Happened?

YouTube embeds in Logseq desktop app fail to play and show the message:

"Error code: 153
Video player configuration error."

However:

YouTube embeds work fine on the Logseq demo web app and in regular browsers.

Other video embeds such as Rumble and Odysee work fine in the desktop app.

Local video files play fine inside Logseq.

Disabling custom themes/plugins has not resolved the issue.

Clearing the app cache does not help.

A fix would be appreciated very much.

Reproduce the Bug

1. Insert a YouTube embed in any page with the usual markdown or block syntax.
2. Try to play the embedded video inside the Logseq desktop app.
3. Video fails to load with Error code 153.

Expected Behavior

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Desktop or Mobile Platform Information

App Version: 0.10.14
Git Revision: dde0aba
Platform: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh Silicon Mac OS X 15_6_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML like Gecko) Logseq/0.10.14 Chrome/132.0.6834.210 Electron/34.5.6 Safari/537.36
Language: en-US
Plugins: logseq-bonofix-theme (v3.10.5)

Additional Context

This might be related to YouTube tightening embed restrictions or the way the desktop app’s embedded webview sends referrer or origin headers.

The embedded webview environment may be missing certain headers or cookies required by YouTube’s player API.

YouTube embeds still work on the official Logseq demo website and standard browsers with the same embed URL.

Are you willing to submit a PR? If you know how to fix the bug.

• I'm willing to submit a PR (Thank you!)