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MX player no longer working

See original GitHub issue

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I’m reporting a broken site
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.09.01 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
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https://www.mxplayer.in/

This site is not working anymore. Needs update. Previously it worked fine. Now it seems broken.

I use yt-dlp for streaming videos in external players like MPC-HC. Screenshot (648)

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.mxplayer.in/movie/watch-kitne-door-kitne-paas-movie-online-a9e9c76c566205955f70d8b2cb88a6a2?watch=true']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.09.01 [5d7c7d6] (win32_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1670 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.09.01, Current version: 2022.09.01
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.09.01)
[debug] [Mxplayer] Extracting URL: https://www.mxplayer.in/movie/watch-kitne-door-kitne-paas-movie-online-a9e9c76c566205955f70d8b2cb88a6a2?watch=true
[Mxplayer] watch-kitne-door-kitne-paas-movie-online: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: [Mxplayer] a9e9c76c566205955f70d8b2cb88a6a2: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: 'Bad Request'>); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 670, in extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\mxplayer.py", line 135, in _real_extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1030, in download_content
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 994, in download_handle
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 864, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 821, in _request_webpage

  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 803, in _request_webpage
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3656, in urlopen
  File "urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
  File "urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
  File "urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
  File "urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
  File "urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request