Can't download 720p Big YouTube videos

[noobimpostor2]

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Affected version

0.23.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Exception

• User Action: download failed
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GE-FlT1fhc [ {type=video format=MPEG-4 quality=720p videoOnly=false} ]
• Content Country: IN
• Content Language: en-IN
• App Language: en_IN
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.23.0
• OS: Linux Android 11 - 30

Crash log

java.net.ProtocolException: unexpected end of stream
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream$FixedLengthSource.read(Http1xStream.java:398)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource$1.read(RealBufferedSource.java:372)
	at us.shandian.giga.get.DownloadRunnableFallback.run(DownloadRunnableFallback.java:98)
	at us.shandian.giga.get.DownloadRunnableFallback.run(DownloadRunnableFallback.java:131)
	at us.shandian.giga.get.DownloadRunnableFallback.run(DownloadRunnableFallback.java:131)
	at us.shandian.giga.get.DownloadRunnableFallback.run(DownloadRunnableFallback.java:131)

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Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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[noobimpostor2]

Btw I know it's YouTube side patch (update) , because since week I can't download any HD 720p video with Newpipe , and also can't play on VLC player and also online downloader services not working on big YouTube videos.

I reported here because if anyone facing same issue or is just me?

[AudricV]

YouTube has some (voluntary?) server issues with 720p video+audio (itag 22) on some videos.

I saw this issue recently on yt-dlp and youtube-dl issue trackers too. There is nothing we can do for this specific format right now, but we can switch to the video-only and audio merged variant (like we did for video playback to allow seamless transition when switching between other apps).

The issue seems to solve by itself when waiting some time (the video stream is again fetchable).