From ff6f94041aeee19c5559e1c1cd693960a1c1dd14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:10:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/youtube] Improve player context payloads (#13539)

Closes #12563
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
index 55ebdce1b..081ed6ac8 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube/_video.py
@@ -2820,6 +2820,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
             context['signatureTimestamp'] = sts
         return {
             'playbackContext': {
+                'adPlaybackContext': {
+                    'pyv': True,
+                    'adType': 'AD_TYPE_INSTREAM',
+                },
                 'contentPlaybackContext': context,
             },
             **cls._get_checkok_params(),