Describe the bug?

When pasting links to YouTube videos in-game, sometimes they either won't load or they will be poor quality. This appears to be because yt-dlp is not able to find a JavaScript runtime to use for the challenges presented by YouTube. This is despite the fact that Resonite ships qjs and qjs.exe in the RuntimeData folder, as these don't appear to be loaded at all ever.

To Reproduce

Paste a YouTube video in-game and then check the log file.

Reproduction Item/World

https://youtu.be/3IPcjNsV17Q?si=37iWX8oWdEHUhVgg

Expected behavior

yt-dlp is able to find and use the intended JavaScript runtime.

Screenshots

N/a

Resonite Version Number

Beta 2026.2.12.359

What Platforms does this occur on?

Linux

What headset if any do you use?

Quest Pro

Log Files

[yt-dlp] WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default; to use another runtime add  --js-runtimes RUNTIME[:PATH]  to your command/config. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS  for details on installing one

owo-pc - 2026.2.12.359 - 2026-02-15 02_51_32.log

Additional Context

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration

If you want to get extra debug information from yt-dlp, you can create a file yt-dlp.conf in the root Resonite folder and then give it the following contents:

-v

Some debug logging I got:

[yt-dlp] [debug] JS runtimes: none

[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)

One way to fix the issue might be to add this to the yt-dlp config (for Linux):

--js-runtimes quickjs:RuntimeData/qjs

You might also be able to just move qjs and qjs.exe from RuntimeData and into the root Resonite folder.

Reporters

Nytra