[YouTube] Some formats and resolutions buffer very frequently

[Eiion]

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Affected version

0.23.2

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Select video
2. See it play for a few seconds until it starts buffering like half a minute, then play for another few seconds only to buffer again like forever.
3. Play a few seconds, buffer forever repeats until the end of the video

Expected behavior

Tap on video and be able to watch it in one go opposed to getting buffering pauses for a multiple of the video's actual length.

Actual behavior

Bufferin videos over and over and over and over - no matter which one.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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Affected device model

Toolboxed fire hd 10 plus tablet

Additional information

While videos play perfectly fine with the YouTube app NewPipe currently is unusable due to the issue described above.

[PrinceRaj53]

Experiencing the same issue. This is happening frequently nowadays.

Although force closing the app, clearing cache & restarting it 3-4 times fixes the issue sometimes, but not always. Do try this and see if it works.

[nikhilCad]

For me 720p buffers but if I change default to 1080p it doesn't buffer

[AudricV]

Like I said on the Reddit 0.23.2 release post:

• streams which are coming from HTML clients, such as the 720p streams on videos with at least 720p60 streams, streams of age-restricted videos and undownloadable WEBM streams will be throttled/will buffer very frequently if the decryption of the throttling parameter fails again in the future.

The decryption of the throttling parameter is failing again, see TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#902.

There is nothing you can do about this on non age-restricted videos except using streams which doesn't meet the conditions stated above.

[Theta-Dev]

Here I have a debug build which fixes the issue.
app-debug.zip

Update: here is a new debug build, the first one had a major bug in the JS lexer. Works with the current player code, might break tomorrow.
app-debug.zip

[Eiion]

No idea if it's related to the issue I've posted above but after changing video resolution to 1080p60 in order to have videos play again they now stutter like crazy (i.e. they play smooth for some seconds than stutter for a bit - the video part, not the audio) just to play smooth again and stutter again and so on. 1080p60 wasn't ever an issue before but now it is which led me to believe it's an related issue. (And it also makes me wonder why there's not an option to select to standard 1080p30 anymore 🤔)

[opusforlife2]

Here I have a debug build which fixes the issue.

Your debug build works, works, works, works, works, works, works. 🎉

[ghost]

Having the same issue, @Theta-Dev debug build works perfectly.

[0Karakurt0]

@Theta-Dev solution works fine, but it still "underestimates" the internet speed required for x2 video speed. Although this was present in earlier versions too, now it seems to have been amplified

[opusforlife2]

Should be fixed by 0.23.3. Comment if not.

[Eiion]

This issue should be re-opened as the problem is back just like before since yesterday.

[AudricV]

This issue should be fixed in the next update with TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#925.

[AudricV]

Closing, as the issue should have been fixed, for real this time, with TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#905 and TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#934, shipped with 0.24.0.

[Eiion]

Closing, as the issue should have been fixed, for real this time, with TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#905 and TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#934, shipped with 0.24.0.

Apparently not. While e.g. 720p60 buffers fine 720p does not. In standard 720p it takes a long time to buffer, just to having to buffer again after a few seconds. So to me the issue appears to persist in 0.24.0.

[opusforlife2]

@vehosah Don't need to comment about the same problem in multiple places.