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PipePipe got stuck in a loop. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Prathas@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

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The video stopped playing back and then kept oscillating continuously between saying that "YouTube forces us to wait for ('two seconds' or 'one second') before continuing playback." After the "one second" notice, it goes back to two seconds and it keeps oscillating forever. This is the first time I've ever seen this notice and am wondering who else here may have been experiencing this recently.

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[–] goofsqueak 2 points 1 day ago

same here 😔✌️ i rarely get past this and when i do i just do a bunch of random crap

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same issue here. Switching between mobile and wi-fi seems to work sometimes

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I have the same experience. Also killing the app and clearing cache sometimes works.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just tried changing the extraction point to "android vr", that seems to get rid of the counter entirely. Videos just play normally now

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Been happening to me a lot. The debug app had a message recommending to enable "Share Visitor Data" under Advanced Settings, but I haven't tried it.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

I've been having this for a fair few days now. I don't have the same issue with NewPipe so have been using that till this gets fixed. It's been reported here #2761

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't use PipePipe, but FreeTube. Since YouTube updated their system to use SABR (I don't even know what exactly that is, I just know it causes issues for us), I get sometimes a reload loop for some videos. In some cases my IP is blocked. Only a VPN helps in those cases. This plagues me / us for weeks and months. I'm surprised you didn't encounter this issue earlier; probably because the developers of the app you are using did a good job.

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

That's why I had been using it, indeed!

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could be related to this issue.

I can corroborate that when I turn off my custom DNS it works swimmingly, until YouTube figured out to block my IP again.

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe/issues/2757

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I actually don't even know how to use a custom DNS, haha, but it's good that you were at least able to pinpoint the issue!

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aw geez, wish I can help more. But IMO the dev is very aware of this. IIRC when 5.2.4, this current latest version, dropped, I remember seeing in-app popup pointing to that GitHub issue that the dev opened.

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Oh, okay, at least it's being addressed. Thanks.

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

GrayJay is what I usually use. It's working currently.