[YouTube] Error HTTP 416 while playing YouTube video

[WesleyTRV]

Checklist

• I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version.
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Affected version

0.23.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Look for a video that mostly has the bug.
2. Fast forward a bit or wait for a while.
3. This bug will encounter.

Expected behavior

Some videos don't crash at random when fast forwarding or when it kept playing.

Actual behavior

Video crashes and stops unexpectedly.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

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=Nt8xbh1LOWY
• Content Country:
• Content Language: en-
• App Language: en
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.23.0
• OS: Linux Android 8.0.0 - 26

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:641)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:613)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:101)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:65)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 416
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:396)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:599)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1009)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1162)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:636)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DataSourceException
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:394)
	... 10 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 8

Affected device model

Galaxy S7

Additional information

No response

[rogerval]

Unfortunately, this still happens with New Pipe version 0.25.1; my device is a Nokia G50, with Android 13

Information copied from New Pipe after the crash (couldn't email it unfortunately) as follows:

{"user_action":"play stream","request":"Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnfZzpOS5sE","content_language":"en-","content_country":"US","app_language":"en_AU","service":"YouTube","package":"org.schabi.newpipe","version":"0.25.1","os":"Linux Nokia/Punisher_00WW/PHR_sprout:13/TKQ1.220807.001/00WW_3_320:user/release-keys 13 - 33","time":"2023-08-01 11:05","exceptions":["com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)\n\tat android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)\n\tat android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)\nCaused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)\n"],"user_comment":""}

Thanks for reading this,
Roger V.

[HydroRaptor]

Same I've got this error too.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BeWdODPqo
• Content Country: IN
• Content Language: en-IN
• App Language: en_IN
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.25.1
• OS: Linux Android 9 - 28

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:108)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:216)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:65)
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.processTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1187)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1152)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:784)

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[michal-kurz]

I was getting the same problem (some specific videos got always got this error when playing past a certain point - both when reaching it organically by playback, or skipping past it) but it was related to VPN usage (I am using Mullvad).

Changing to a different VPN relay server eliminated the problem.

[AudricV]

This feels like a one time bug with YouTube or how ExoPlayer makes requests, as I never seen a 416 response code from YouTube from what I remember. Closing as stale, if you can reproduce it again with the latest version, please let us know and we will reopen it.