Video unavailable

[jehad-husein]

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Affected version

0.28.1 and nightly 1105

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open Newpipe.
2. Tap any video to play it.
3. The video will appear unavailable.

Expected behavior

Every video will play without any interruptions.

Actual behavior

90% of videos are showing as unavailable. I found a couple of videos that were played.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Logs

No response

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

android 12 Stock rom

Affected device model

itel s23

Additional information

No response

[jehad-husein]

I'm sorry, I don't know why it's acting so haphazardly.Even after taking no action on the videos that were not playing before, I see that first 40% of the newsfeed is playing, then 60%, and now 80% of the videos are playing.
I repeat, these were not being played before but are being played now. Although not all of them are being played, I can expect from past experience that they will all be played.
Even though everything is almost fine now, can we still find out the reason behind this happening and solve it so that it doesn't happen again in the future?

[absurdlylongusername]

Please give the exception logs otherwise we cannot help with this

[vaijns]

Happened for me too, tho I'd suspect it's just server/api issues, as it hasn't happened before for me with the same version. Here's my logs anyways (Lineage OS 23.0):

Exception

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsE5W-JriyI
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-01-23T04:11:51.95+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.7
• OS: Linux Android 16 - 36

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ContentNotAvailableException: The page needs to be reloaded.
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.checkPlayabilityStatus(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:890)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.fetchHtml5Client(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:931)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:819)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:77)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:118)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$bVfA-5gb6gDc8jcAgcGWG5oH0FE(ExtractorHelper.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16144)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:348)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

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[tag27]

I am having the same problem, and the same warning without log text button that @jehad-husein reported. It was already happening in the morning (In the style of Issue #13082), but now it's more frequent, and right after my IP was temporarily blocked.

I guess the problem is similar to the issue I pointed out above, only even more annoying, and affecting almost every video I click on.

Device and version:
NewPipe 28.1; Samsung A25, Android 16.

Edit: Apparently NewPipe can reload the video if I manage to click on several others:

Screen_Recording_20260123_012201_NewPipe.2.mp4

[RAHUL12348697695848579]

I am getting same problem I am on Android 15 with latest non nightly build

it also has been happing with another open source client libre tube so I guess youtube did some updates