Re: NewPipe retry anomaly in version 0.27.4

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:00:19 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Qihe wrote :

So I'm just wondering if this is just me - or if everyone is getting it.
 

You are not alone.

Thanks for the confirmation, where it happens for me for this subscription,
which requires adult accounts - which NewPipe anonymized long ago.
 <https://www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov>
This is a similar issue reported three days ago, which concurs with us:
 *High chance of giving an error when entering a video*
 *where you have to click retry for an amount of times #11939*
 <https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11939>
 Opened 3 days ago
From that report, which was declared a duplicate, we find the main issue:
 *[YouTube] IOS player response is not valid error*
 *when loading some videos #11934*
 <https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11934>
 Opened 5 days ago
Which happens on the latest NewPipe release (Nov 30, 2024):
 <https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.27.4>
For me, for a few days, NewPipe has required a few retries, but up until
today I could finally get NewPipe to play the YouTube videos.
Now, today, I can't get the videos to play, although clearing the cache &
data allowed a single video to play but even that stopped working today.
I noticed 3 hours ago there was a debug version released by Stypox:
 https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18496526/app-debug.zip
 Name: app-debug.zip
 Size: 16227774 bytes (15 MiB)
 SHA256: 7599552F6BA551FE0BE050EA64808229FB9788356929D1CD702F8824DD562C81
That app-debug.zip unzips to a single APK file:
 Name: app-debug.apk
 Size: 20754104 bytes (19 MiB)
 SHA256: 9694B02E5C6B042076B0C8D434995162ABA0B53EDED089EF0FCC5F3EE6388FD7
That NewPipe debug version 0.27.2 worked just now in my first test:
 <https://i.postimg.cc/vT2wZhxf/20250122-newpipe-debug.jpg>
Let me know if that new debug version works for you also please, as together we are far more knowledgeable than any one of us is all alone.