2019-03-22, 19:43
You are making things more complicated than they are. You never mentioned paying for a movie/video, or that the movie/video was ad supported. And that when trying to start such a movie/video, that an error message was being displayed saying that the proxy is not running. And that as a result of this, the video refused to play. So if this did not happen, you were not trying to playback YT VOD, and you therefore do not need a proxy.
If you were playing media from YT Movies (and possibly from the other two services below; I don't know for sure) you will need the proxy server. If you did not, you also do not need a proxy server.
1) YT's Movie On Demand a.k.a. Video On Demand a.k.a. VOD is here https://www.youtube.com/movies. It has Transactional VOD (TVOD) and I believe occasionally also Ad Supported VOD (ASVOD).
2) YT's Live TV (IPTV) : https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/.
3) And YT's Originals (and also ad-free YT and ad-free YT Music) : https://www.youtube.com/red. They may have more services.
It may be annoying to you if I say this again, but you're better of concentrating on the root cause of the problem and fix that. We (including you) have already concluded that there was no green push-button solution in the YT addon settings to the issue you are experiencing. Nor in it's auxiliary addon's settings. Do yourself a favour. Just saying.
If you were playing media from YT Movies (and possibly from the other two services below; I don't know for sure) you will need the proxy server. If you did not, you also do not need a proxy server.
1) YT's Movie On Demand a.k.a. Video On Demand a.k.a. VOD is here https://www.youtube.com/movies. It has Transactional VOD (TVOD) and I believe occasionally also Ad Supported VOD (ASVOD).
2) YT's Live TV (IPTV) : https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/.
3) And YT's Originals (and also ad-free YT and ad-free YT Music) : https://www.youtube.com/red. They may have more services.
It may be annoying to you if I say this again, but you're better of concentrating on the root cause of the problem and fix that. We (including you) have already concluded that there was no green push-button solution in the YT addon settings to the issue you are experiencing. Nor in it's auxiliary addon's settings. Do yourself a favour. Just saying.