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!
YouTube changed something about their API to break 3rd party apps again. youtube-dl is also broken, but they’ve found the issue already, so it’ll likely be fixed after a while.
GrayJay and YouTube ReVanced still work in meantime.
I wonder why grayjay is still fine but youtube-dlp isn’t. strange
Same, i tried Grayjay today and i was surprised about how well and reliably it worked. Does someone know why?
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.
Woah, thanks for the insight!
Yt-dlp still works for me on Android, but only for h264 videos. When I try to download VP9, I get an error.
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.
I really want to see what the fuck google will do for embedded videos or shared videos on chats like discord.
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)
You used a VPN… Right?
Nope, Now I use VPN if I have to watch something Goddamn I didn’t have static IP.
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.
This sometimes happens when youtube changes something, usually fixed after some days.
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.
Where else should I publish videos as well as youtube?
Not entirely sure. I would say PeerTube, maybe? There are others, like Odysee, but they tend to have interesting communities (to stay within rules of conduct). But YouTube was similar in its early days, too, so :shrug:
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.
I don’t think that’s the right issue. The behavior I see is a network error toast message that says check the notification for details (with no notification). This issue says the behavior is the “content unavailable” screen, which I don’t see.
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.
Piped and Yewtu.be as well.
My local Piped instance still works.
That’s good. Maybe there will be a fix soon.
PipePipe works for me now with 3.5.0.
It’s not in fdroid, yet. Hopefully soon! Thanks!
No it’s not. I only found it when I opened PipePipe and it popped up there’s a new update. Installed it outside of fdroid
Ah ok cool. I’m glad they have that option.
Does someone know why Grayjay works perfectly?