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No matter what app I use now for YouTube, I'm having issues with buffering. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Has Google finally found a way to hamper non-Premium users?

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[–] Nima@leminal.space 8 points 2 days ago

i always make sure to check for new versions when I notice something is going wrong. and if there's no new versions of pipepipe or freetube, I check the bugs users have reported.

9/10 someone has already reported it and they're working on it.

don't lose hope! google are weirdos. just be patient and support the devs who work very hard to fix things. 😊

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

every then and now yt changes how their video loader works so everyone has to update their system, maybe it's just that

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I currently only get 360p in NewPipe&Tubular, with increasing throttling after about 1h hour watchtime per day. Using yt-dlp (of GUIs/apps based on it) is my current workaround.

also, IMO this isn't piracy related.

[–] meowcar42O@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thats becuase of the new sabr codec. newpipe fixed it about a week ago though

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That shouldn't affect old uploads though. I and at least one other person have that issue with the current NewPipe 0.28.7

[–] meowcar42O@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

im pretty sure that for me it affected everything, but i dont think we have the same problem. for me i also could only watch videos in 360p and yt-dlp still worked

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They started this months ago. They throttle speeds unless some sort of ad callback happens. I switched to 1080p because its fine. Fuck them

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

No issues on grayjay.app currently. Sometimes there are but they get fixed super quick

[–] dry_water@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm using a VPN (connected to a Mexican server) and freetube seems to work for me atm.

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've had the issue with it not loading videos channels have uploaded on their pages. Had to switch to RSS feed. Local API error, Mexican server for the VPN did not help.

[–] ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Switching to rss feed worked for a few days when it was announced that was the work around but now for the past week no videos load or will even play no matter what region I set vpn at and I've tried many. Freetube for now for me is completely broken.

[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know it hasn't been working for me for Canada at all. It works well for the Netherlands. Maybe it is just the country? Try Netherlands.

[–] ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, after trying about 10 different Netherlands nodes, finally found a Netherlands node thats working. Thank you.

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

double check your resolution settings. if watching on ohone you can probably drop it fown quite a bit. less data coming in means less buffering

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay's Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay's Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it's a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.

[–] brawndo@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wrote a bash script to check for updates to channels I like. It runs nighly via cron. If there is a new video it automatically downloads it using yt-dlp to my Jellyfin library. There is a yt-dlp flag that incorporates sponsor block. Since I download videos overnight large channels have already been included by sponsor block. So I get videos completely ad and sponsor free.

Everything is done behind a VPN. This approach allows me to completely bypass using a browser further protecting me from tracking.

When I wake up in the morning I have all the new videos from my favorite channels ad and sponsor free. I can watch from my computer, phone, or TV. If I'm away from my home network I use Tailscale to stream to my location.

The only downside I experience is not getting to watch the video until the day after upload.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

God damn - I had this idea myself! Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

I was thinking of an additional step of having it transcode overnight to a more mobile phone friendly resolution, like let's say 480p, as well as introducing a time to live (TTL) so that I don't end up with an ever expanding YouTube library that never gets watched.

Actually I seem to recall there was a YouTube something (Youtube custodian? Something like that) that did all this for you directly. But I think I would like to try doing it as a cron job because it could run on low end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.

[–] brawndo@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I started with a Raspberry Pi connected to an external hard drive. As my collection grew I built a server. It has NAS rated drives in RAID with a low end CPU and modest GPU. Now I have a large collection and everything is transcoded on the fly.

I also use the server to host Immich. So I no longer need to use Google photos or drive.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Metrolist works but that's YouTube music

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I am running Newpipe 0.28.7 and it all works with no issues.

[–] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

I just used newpipe at the gym for a half hour and didnt experience. Playing some videos now. Maybe regional isp issue?

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, even on modified official apk via Youtube Morphe. I just had to update to latest patch and working again.