Has NewPipe v0.27.0 stopped working for anyone else? It won’t play anymore. It loads the video page and comments, but throws an error when attempting to play or download the video. I’ve submitted an error report, but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

Edit: thank you, everyone! I figured it was google being a giant turd again, but want sure, since it worked perfectly fine for me yesterday, and I didn’t see anything pop up on Lemmy yet. I understand the logistical and costing nightmare of this, but we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold and take off. Let google and other bigturdtech die where they made their beds.

Update: newpipe 0.27.1 was just released, which fixes this deliberately google-caused issue. As I understand, some other frontends implemented their own fixes, too. These teams are amazing!

      • Into The Sky
        4·
        6 months ago

        Same, i tried Grayjay today and i was surprised about how well and reliably it worked. Does someone know why?

        • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
          6·
          6 months ago

          My guess (and it’s only a guess, I haven’t looked at the source code) is that the scraping is being done on a server end that they can update without having to push an app update.

          edit: my guess was wrong, I found where the source code is and they do the parsing locally - however it’s a plugin that I assume gets loaded in on app start so they can still update it without having to publish a new apk. this is the fix

          interestingly although Grayjay itself is proprietary this plugin is Affero GPL licensed.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
    692·
    6 months ago

    Yup, Google are launching their yearly attempt to convince folks YouTube premium is worth it.

    Think of this time not as an annoyance, but as a time to reflect on how shitty Google has become.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    I’ve switched to FreeTube for now, it still works using the Invidious API. This is happening because YouTube is testing forced login to watch videos or use the API. There is a workaround it seems, but we’ll have to wait for all the major clients to roll it out.

    • ZeroHoraEnglish
      171·
      6 months ago

      I really want to see what the fuck google will do for embedded videos or shared videos on chats like discord.

  • sag@lemm.ee
    13·
    6 months ago

    I am tired of big company bullshit. I don’t care anymore. YouTube was the only big brother service which I can’t replace but now I don’t give a single fuck.(They IP blocked me on their official site)

  • simple@lemm.ee
    141·
    6 months ago

    Yup, same here. Youtube broke something so you’ll have to wait for an update. Grayjay is still working for me if you need another app to see videos.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      263·
      6 months ago

      Just in case this matters to OP or anyone else in this thread, Grayjay isn’t Open Source, despite Rossman’s and FUTO’s claims to the contrary. Its license disallows any commercial use of Grayjay, and also disallows removing any features related to paying FUTO. Which disqualify Grayjay as “Open Source” by the OSI’s definition.

      And consequently, F-Droid won’t distribute Grayjay unless they change their license.

      • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
        151·
        6 months ago

        AFAIK FUTO/Rossmann, to their credit, stopped trying to openwash themselves. They created their own phrase “source-first” to describe their proprietary EULA.

        That doesn’t change the fact that it’s proprietary and not worth promoting here.

        • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          Oh! That’s good to hear. Honestly, that issue has kindof pissed me off enough at Rossmann specifically that I kindof quit watching his YouTube videos and stuff. So I very much haven’t been following him or FUTO.

          I wonder if the FUTO website still claims that they require all projects to be or have a plan to become specifically “Open Source”.

          Edit: Yup. They still say “All FUTO-funded projects are expected to be open-source or develop a plan to eventually become so” on this page. Maybe that means that they intend for Grayjay to “develop a plan to eventually become” properly Open Source and not just “source first”.

      • youmaynotknow
        5·
        6 months ago

        Agreed, but it is working, you don’t HAVE to pay, and I can remain anonymous.

        That’s good enough for me.

  • gaidemar@feddit.de
    8·
    6 months ago

    I’ve exactly the same problem since yesterday. Didn’t search for a solution, i usually just wait for next release when problems like this appears.

  • DeadNinja@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.

    As someone else said in this thread, I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.

    The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it’s pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.

    I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.

  • MechKit@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    This sometimes happens when youtube changes something, usually fixed after some days.

  • ignirtoq@fedia.io
    6·
    6 months ago

    Do you have a link to the main tracking issue with NewPipe? I tried to look through their GitHub repo, but most of the issues I saw were about the 59-second bug, or they had been closed as duplicate without linking to the duplicate issue.

    I have a 1.5 hour commute, and watching downloaded videos on NewPipe is a major part of my strategy for getting through it.

  • peregus@lemmy.world
    61·
    6 months ago

    we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold

    I’d love for that to happen, but without being paid by a central company, content creators won’t…create content. Will it work with content creators own sponsors? Mmm…I don’t know

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Early YouTube was exactly this, though. Content creators creating for the sake of the content. Sponsors helped a lot, sure, but the vast majority did it without them. Also, current YouTube, many content creators don’t or can’t monetize. They still create.

      • peregus@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yes, you’re right. Are we able to go back? I mean, do they want to go back from being paid to almost nothing? And if I’m not mistaken, professional YouTubers produce a quality of videos that didn’t exist back in the days.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Lemmy is a good case study, I would say. Reddit was the epitome of “the front page”, until it wasn’t. Then many moved to Lemmy, and it was just ok for a while. Now it’s getting to where Reddit was before it lost its shite. Not a perfect comparison due to the YouTube monetization, I know, but a good rags->riches->enshitified->rags->riches story. And production quality is much less important, IMO, than content. And, yes, content did increase over the years, but a part of that was video editing technology improvement. Let’s take LTT as an example. Before monetization, they had low production quality, but incredible content value videos. Now, the production value (and their paychecks) improved a lot, but the content value isn’t what it used to be. It’s not bad, it’s just less focused on what it used to be. Is that bad? Probably not. But it also means we can start over, and get to the same monetization that we’re at now, but without enshitification.

          Edit: and I’m not even touching “influencers” in the main comment, who, IMO, don’t matter in the grand scheme. They can stay on yt or disappear completely. In fact, if they did disappear, it would make a significant positive impact to the overall content library.

  • boerbiet@feddit.nl
    5·
    6 months ago

    It happened on and off the past two weeks or so but was considered not a bug in an earlier report I saw. I also encountered it a few times, but since about 24 hours ago I have had no luck playing anything.

    Likely changes or countermeasures on G’s side, or part of the embedded as changes that is being talked about, is my guess.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    Damn, same here. I copied the error report, YouTube is apparently being fucky again…

    Exception

    • User Action: play stream
    • Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
    • Content Country: US
    • Content Language: en-US
    • App Language: en_US
    • Service: YouTube
    • Version: 0.27.0
    • OS: Linux motorola/lake_revvl_n/lake_n:10/QPW30.142-Q3-28-25/4cbcf:user/release-keys 10 - 29 <details><summary><b>Crash log </b></summary><p>
    com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:241)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

    </details> <hr>

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I noticed this last night. Playing videos not from YouTube still works fine. This affects Piped as well.

    This had happened previously a different time, which is why I tried reconstructing my music playlists with Soundcloud uploads until YouTube started working again.