Fix live streams buffering endlessly

[absidue]

Fix live streams buffering endlessly

Pull Request Type

• Bugfix

Related issue

closes #5962

Description

This pull request fixes live stream playback breaking after a while, resulting in the player buffering endlessly.

Screenshots

Testing

Affects both backends for some users but in my case just Invidious, so I'm going to recommend testing with Invidious here.

1. Set your preferred API backend to Invidious
2. Open a lives stream e.g. lofi hip hop radio 📚 beats to relax/study to: https://youtu.be/jfKfPfyJRdk
3. Check that playback works for more than a minute without endlessly buffering (showing the loading symbol)

Desktop

• OS: Windows
• OS Version: 10
• FreeTube version: c3c93d5

[PikachuEXE]

I can't play any live stream on IV API (local is fine
Already tried all instances on https://api.invidious.io

[absidue]

@PikachuEXE Could you please try again, it probably just received some invalid data.

[PikachuEXE]

Same results
However I can play them on this IV instances (even loading takes quite long

[absidue]

It taking a long time is pretty much expected, as Invidious instances are currently quite overloaded and as we have to convert the URLs back to something shaka-player can actually use but Invidious then redirects us back to the original ones (if we use the original ones playback won't even start). The fix would have to happen on the Invidious side, either they remove the redirect and handle the URL as is or stop converting the URLs into something that shaka-player can't handle.

[PikachuEXE]

I still can't test (same error) for some reason with VPN on/off

[absidue]

@PikachuEXE Does the same issue happen for you on the development branch? If yes then it is not caused by this pull requests and considering that various users on the linked issue confirmed that it fixed the problem for them and they weren't getting transmuxing problems, I think it shouldn't be blocking for this pull request.

[PikachuEXE]

Can't access live stream in dev too
Just ship it