Crash due to unicode decode error while getting video title from vtt about yt-fts HOT 3 CLOSED

I have downloaded via pip today, and had the same issue. Made your suggested change:

def get_vid_title(info_json_path):
    """
    Retrieves video title from the info json file.
    """
    with open(info_json_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:
        return json.load(f)['title']

and after that it worked.

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 seems to be related to a Windows-1252 encoding error.
The get_vid_title() function could be wrapped in a try/except but we'd still run into problems with not returning a name from the function.

gpt & stack overflow recommend setting a default encoding of utf-8

with open(info_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:
    return json.load(f)['title']

Would you mind providing a channel url to reproduce this on?
The yt-fts &yt-dlp version numbers would be helpful as well.
Thanks.

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Fixed in v0.1.44. Bug was introduced on 896f8fd by writing json to file system which will be encoded differently on Windows. Should be solved/prevented by specifying the utf-8 encoding when using json.load, I don't have a Windows environment to test this in so feel free to make another issue if it persists.

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