I'm trying to use youtube DL with FFmpeg to download an m3u8 stream. Just recently I started receiving this error:
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]
certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)>
(caused by URLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1,
'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:
unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)')))
I know Youtube DL supports an option for nocheckcertificate but by enabling this after a couple of minutes the target machine will refuse the connection. When trying to use the same m3u8 stream on another computer, I could download the stream without any issues.
I know that someone from Youtubedl CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED suggested fixing "your system's CA certificate list". What is the process of doing this?
I tried upgrading/reinstalling python and reinstalling the latest Windows update
I also want to mention that there hasn't been any issue with downloading for the past year but recently stumbled upon this when switching proxy providers. But because the same setup works on another PC without any issue it's probably not the reason.
The system the program is running on is Windows
Edit: Another note is that downloading other public m3u8 streams works perfectly fine, so the problem is probably with the system CA SSL.
