[YouTube] 403 HTTP errors while playing/downloading videos (workaround broken)

[phanirithvij]

Checklist

• I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version.
• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
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• This issue contains only one bug.
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Affected version

0.25.1 fdroid

Steps to reproduce the bug

Pasted the error log down below. When watching that video the app crashed.
It keeps failing constantly at 1:19 timestamp. Tried playing it 3 times got the same error.

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vabTy82Iw
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.25.1
• OS: Linux realme/RMX1971/RMX1971:11/RKQ1.201217.002/1637545731209:user/release-keys 11 - 30

Crash log

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:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:263)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$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:923)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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Affected device model

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Additional information

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[opusforlife2]

Tried playing it 3 times got the same error.

Did you try completely closing and restarting the app? Try after swiping it away from Recents.

[phanirithvij]

I did change the video, and the new video played and then switched back and this video did not play, but I didn't restart the app.
After seeing your comment I just did, and the video plays. Thank you.

[AudricV]

Do not close the issue, it is an A/B test or a rollout and does not affect only NewPipe, but also reVanced which uses the same workaround, which is the reason why you have been not able to reproduce it again.

It will affect more and more people (edit: I got affected a few minutes ago): that's a continuation of #9038, which happens now not at the start of playback but later, probably to make us detect and reproduce the issue harder.

[simonmikkelsen]

I started getting this a lot these days. If I restart the app it will continue playing the video, but not if I just play another video then gets back.