Live stream not possible watch while screen sharing to Chromecast is turned on

[edmundlaugasson]

Describe the bug When try to play Live stream while screen sharing is turned on, SkyTube remains loading endlessly.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to SkyTube
2. Share screen via SkyTube to Chromecast
3. Search any live stream from YouTube
4. Try to play Live stream via SkyTube while screen sharing to Chromecast is turned on
5. It does remain to load endlessly

Expected behavior Live stream starts while screen sharing to Chromecast is turned on.

Setup:

• Android version: 11
• Is Your device rooted? No
• Do You use Tor or any VPN service with your device? Sometimes but not during SkyTube usage.
• App source: Google Play
• App Version: 2.985 Extra (2022-11-04 9:07)
• App Flavour: Extra

Additional context Phone: Ulefone PowerArmor 13. While screen sharing to Chromecast is turned off, live stream plays fine via SkyTube. Issue persist while screen sharing to Chromecast is turned on.

[drogga]

live stream plays fine via SkyTube > Only for a few seconds with the default player, I haven't used the Extra for a long time, especially with the Embedded player (the YT app must be installed and enabled for it to work), @edmundlaugasson can you play for more than a minute a live stream, because I just checked on one by LTT with the Oss (from GitHub) and the default player and it still doesn't play for more than ~10 sec., which is a known issue since a long time, I wish someone works on it more "heavily" (there's a open draft PR for the "live" streams)...

[edmundlaugasson]

There are even more issues. I tried one live stream without connecting with Chromecast. Initially the issue was described, while connection with Chromecast was active.

I had muted phone and while SkyTube Extra was open, tried to change muting from pull-down menu in Android and then SkyTube Extra basically freezed - was blurred out and impossible to do anything. Almost freezed whole Android... Somehow finally succeeded to close SkyTube and started over. I locked screen, tapped different buttons, etc.

Another thing - live streams are not shown as live streams but only I see via duration 0:0-1, that it is live stream. Would be expected to show live streams normally as YouTube shows them. Quite hard and uncomfortable is to identify live streams via its bizarre duration only.

Yet another thing - when start live stream, it turns screen brightness to maximum, which is unexpected behaviour. Keeping brightness intact is expected. At the same time there is not possible to change brightness as from pull-down menu the brightness slider is at minimal position...

That was true - I had YouTube app disabled. Now enabled, updated. But still SkyTube Extra will pause live stream after few seconds playing it - impossible to watch live stream with SkyTube Extra. This is while Chromecast broadcast is not active. Having also YouTube Studio installed in Android. I guess this should not affect SkyTube Extra's work.

Tried also playing live stream, while Chromecast was connected - still same issue, even YouTube is now active in Android. So, live stream loads forever and will never play while Chromecast was connected. Also, while Chromecast was connected, cannot choose no other video while live stream is endlessly loading and have to close SkyTube Extra in order to play any other video.

Yet another issue here - while playing first video after opening SkyTube Extra and while Chromecast is connected - the SkyTube Extra will crash, app window will close but still the video starts playing in Chromecast. Then I just reopen SkyTube Extra and then I can use normally. When starting next video, it will then play normally and SkyTube Extra will not crash. So, only with first video the SkyTube Extra will crash but will keep that first video playing in Chromecast.

This all applies to same SkyTube 2.985 Extra (2022-11-04 9:07) version. Checked, no newer version available.