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Yeah I also think same but why newpipe team is not taking the issue serious
No, we are, everything is explained in this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewPipe/comments/u5wf7m/about_youtube_buffering_issues/
This new version works in Samsung device. Thanks for your effort.
I exclusively use NewPipe at 2.7 speed and the silence taken out at 240p to 480p, with closed captions to catch a few words that I might miss. 2x seems very, very slow to me anymore.
However recently, I find NewPipe is unusable because of buffering. I think after the latest upgrade. Even at 144p and a tiresome slow 2x or 1.75 x, it is constantly and consistently buffering, while youtu.be doesn't buffer at 2x and 720p.
It has to deliberate throttling by youtu.be to stop detected NewPipe users. I may have been easy to detect, due to the fast speed I use and the number of videos I can cram into an hour. .
I have been defaulting back to the Yt client, which works fine at 2x at all resolutions.
The previous version of new pipe, I noticed that only 360p worked. 480 and 240 constantly buffered. Maybe they patched the offers on the Yt server side.
I was thinking that they probably carried 144, 360, 720p60fps, 1080. But 240, 480, was being transcoded on the fly, which was causing the buffer at lower resolution.
240 and 480 are my favorite resolutions, because of the bitrate v. Clarity of the two. 4k might have a place on cad tutorials, where 1080 seems blurry.
@degarb I don't think they are detecting it with playback speed alone. I regularly watch at 3x or 4x speed on desktop (youtube.com and document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 3
) 720p with no buffering at all. I can't watch in NewPipe at 2x speed 360p (a playback speed supported by YouTube) without constant buffering.
Please try the release candidate, available in #8548. Does the issue is improved?
Hi,
I always had delay and slow loading in the last few Newpipe versions (~4-6 months or so, and also in v0.23.0). I often use the skip during silence feature. After some update I had problems with it, it was slower and didnt skip as fast, also watching the bandwith it uses it downloads at relatively slow (compared to before). Even changing to lower resolution like 360p didn't help that much. Somehow it always seemed bandwith capped and slow and delayed.
So I just downloaded the debug release (Release v0.23.1 https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/8548) and installed the apk.
All the slow load/buffer/slow skip issues are fixed, everything works fine in the new debug version I installed. Thank you very much! It's so fast and fresh, the skip during silence is very smooth (and you even see the video moving speeding fast forward smoothly during silence, which wasn't the case before, previously it just showed a loading circle, now I never see the loading circle.)
Comparing it to the last version, it's like double the speed now at least.
Thanks again and good work
Same here, everything works. No buffering at all at all these days using #8548. No issue either using as daily driver for more than a month the app at PR #8153.
I have just gone back to using Brave at 2x on my phones. I have a xiaomi 9, and two lg g8 phones, attached to wifi or cell, and she buffers constantly.
I also noticed a lot of 0b downloads, so, it looks like the buffering is affecting the success of the downloads.
I mostly use NewPipe to download a bunch of lectures for work that next day, and to fall asleep - - both as a 20 minutes lecture videos to cram in an hour before bed, as well as to turn off the screen. So, it is a huge loss for my ongoing self education to loose NewPipe to buffer problems. I can read up to 2x, but I can follow the human voice up to 3. 5 or 4x.
I can't use the Yt app to fall asleep, because the commercials jolt me awake, as they are loud and obnoxious to get attention.
@degarb Instead of complaining, why not using the debug APK of the release candidate of 0.23.1? According to the feedbacks we received and my intensive testing since more than a month of the change from progressive playback to DASH playback for YouTube contents, the issue should be solved.
Isn't this fixed now?
Indeed. Let's close this now. If the problem crops up again, it should be discussed in a new issue.
This issue is back since 2 days now.
Version 0.23.2 Android 10 without google
@Donkey-Doug Is the content on which you got the issue age-restricted or did you use the 720p stream on a 720p60 or higher video? If so, that's related to the decryption failure of the throttling parameter.
Also remember that:
If the problem crops up again, it should be discussed in a new issue.
Not age restricted and only occurs on 720p and 720p @ 60Hz
It only happens sometimes so I decided to wait before making an new issue until I know when it occurs.
Checklist
Steps to reproduce the bug
I use WebM, if that matters.
Actual behavior
Eventually, seemingly at random, a video will decide it wants to endlessly buffer on/off, making it unwatchable.
When this happens, I can see that download speed consistently stays at around 60 KB/s. Closing out of the video, clearing cached metadata, then returning to that same video makes it work as normal again, varying between 100 B/s to 1-2 MB/s as you would expect.
Expected behavior
For one, the app is supposed to buffer at least 25 seconds ahead before playback resumes, as per https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/5516#issuecomment-901382592. Simply enforcing the 25 second minimum probably wouldn't fix the underlying issue, though.
Screenshots/Screen recordings
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43770697/130306929-8e92318c-5629-47ca-99ef-df0826f8ccae.mp4
Logs
Cleaned up to remove screen recorder spam, from the moment I enabled the recorder to the end of the recording. I hope that's enough?
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Device info