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docs: correct protected playback limitations
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- Search for videos or open a YouTube URL.
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- Open an optional signed-in Invidious account feed.
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- Watch a low-bandwidth progressive stream, with HLS support for live video.
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- Watch a low-bandwidth progressive stream while preserving its native aspect ratio.
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- Listen through the Light SDK audio player, including detached playback.
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- Keep optional local search and watch histories.
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- Choose which pages appear on Home.
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offline playback, and confirmed deletion from a Downloads tab.
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- Preserve native video aspect ratios and provide an explicit screen-filling
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fullscreen view without stretching or cropping.
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- Exclude YouTube Shorts from search, libraries, playlists, history, playback,
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and downloads.
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There is no autoplay, comments, algorithmic Home feed, notifications, or
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automatic public-instance rotation.
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[`lightious` branch of `LooseWireDev/lightious-invidious`](https://github.com/LooseWireDev/lightious-invidious/tree/lightious)
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with its Lightious routes enabled and public HTTPS URL configured.
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`Proxy media` requests `local=true`. This keeps media traffic on the configured
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Invidious host but consumes that server's bandwidth. Turning it off normally
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uses the returned Google video CDN URL directly.
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Paired playback always uses the server's short-lived, signed media gateway.
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`Proxy media` applies only to unpaired or custom Explore-mode playback: enabling
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it requests `local=true`, while disabling it normally uses the returned Google
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video CDN URL directly. Protected live/HLS playback is not yet available.
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## Compatibility status
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The UI, navigation, input, theming, and audio path use Light SDK components.
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Video rendering uses Media3 and an Android `SurfaceView`, so Lightious is an
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Video rendering uses Media3 and an Android `TextureView`, so Lightious is an
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experimental sideloaded tool rather than an officially supported Light tool.
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Materialious and Clipious were used only as behavioral references for the

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