"Could not play this stream" after a minute

[oguz-ismail]

Checklist

• I am using the latest version.
• I checked, but didn't find any duplicates of this issue in the repo.
• I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This issue contains only one bug. I will open one issue for every bug report I want to file.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Try playing this video with NewPipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPdaqbrCaA0

Actual behaviour

After a minute or so the player stops and Could not play this stream message is shown, if I try to resume it later I'll see the same message over and over. It never plays. I tried wiping cache, metadata, etc but the same thing happened again.

Expected behavior

The video to play seamlessly to the end.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Logs

Device info

• Android version/Custom ROM version: Android M
• Device model: Samsung Galaxy J5

[Stypox]

#4432

[opusforlife2]

Are we sure? We really need a screen record from all three reporters.

[Stypox]

Yes, we are not completely sure, but they seem like really similar issues that all popped up after 0.20.0

[opusforlife2]

@oguz-ismail Could you post a screen record, please?

[dogtopus]

I'm getting the same issue from a different video. The background playback freezes after ~1 min. However unlike the mentioned issue there's no hourglass symbol showing. Foreground player immediately shows "could not play this stream" and quits on the same timestamp. Manually skip past the timestamp and immediately get the same error as well. Download works normally. Also I noticed that the logcat was flooded by some decoder error when the bg player freezes.

[opusforlife2]

@dogtopus Are you using MP4 or WebM? Can you try the other one?

[oguz-ismail]

@oguz-ismail Could you post a screen record, please?

It really seems like the issue @Stypox linked above. I deleted /sdcard/Android/data/org.schabi.newpipe and it doesn't happen anymore

[dogtopus]

@oguz-ismail This fixed the issue for me as well. I only deleted cache/exoplayer under the external storage though. Does seem to be a caching issue on:

• "Delete cache" option doesn't delete cached media files
• Cache does't expire and always present
• Corrupted cache doesn't get invalidated automatically

[opusforlife2]

@Stypox @wb9688 Shouldn't we add a Clear Cache option, even if just to debug?

[Flashwalker]

I'm getting the same.

[opusforlife2]

@Flashwalker Tried the RC?