[Bug] Unable to play videos

[rancidfrog]

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Describe the bug
Pipepipe stops working as before. Now to play a video I need to share to newpipe which works fine.

Frequency
Often.

Steps to reproduce the bug
Play any video

Additional context
The IP has been blocked is misleading. As same IP works fine with newpipe.
The real issue is UserAgent is being blocked by youtube automatic filter.
Ever since pipepipe changed the format of UserAgent it has become unusable most of the times.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_UNSPECIFIED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCmtL45j3Fo
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: YouTube (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.4.2
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

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:617)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$UnexpectedLoaderException: Unexpected RuntimeException: 403 error. You IP is temporarily blocked from accessing this video.
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:433)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: 403 error. You IP is temporarily blocked from accessing this video.
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:501)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:599)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	... 3 more

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[InfinityLoop1308]

Have you confirmed the issue is due to UA? What tools are you using?

[rancidfrog]

My IP is remains the same.
Pipepipe reports falsely IP blocked.
I share to newpipe, same video plays fine.
I share, then play the video in YTDLnis, it plays fine.
With newpipe it plays quick, YTDLnis takes a while but plays (not meant for playing more for downloading yet still able to play as well)

So, at least we know for sure it has nothing to do with IP.

From January pipepipe has not been as reliable as before.

[InfinityLoop1308]

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe/actions/runs/15745389016

try this, it should work fine

[santraj611]

Hey, I am already running the latest version as of today (4.4.2). But the error/bug is still there.

[InfinityLoop1308]

@santraj611 You are also encountering the 403 error? You need to download the debug apk from the link here.

[rancidfrog]

What is weird is that a specific video will return an IP banned error, but another video from the same channel works fine.
Talking about app version 4.4.2

[InfinityLoop1308]

It's determined by YouTube.
Close the issue since the patch is already merged in 4.5.0