Stream can't play

[toni-acara]

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Affected version

Last one

Steps to reproduce the bug

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faPOQJQ0iD8
• Content Country: ES
• Content Language: es-
• App Language: es_ES
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-01-25T11:53:31.238+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.1
• OS: Linux Redmi/emerald_eea/emerald:15/AP3A.240905.015.A2/OS2.0.208.0.VNFEUXM:user/release-keys 15 - 35

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:684)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:656)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:249)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:337)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to rr3---sn-8vq54voxn25po-cjoz.googlevideo.com/217.130.97.110:443
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:392)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:269)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:60)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:802)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:615)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:90)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:132)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:420)
	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)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to rr3---sn-8vq54voxn25po-cjoz.googlevideo.com/217.130.97.110:443
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:147)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:116)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:186)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:128)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:97)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:289)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:232)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:465)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:131)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.connect(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:90)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.makeConnection(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:703)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.makeConnection(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:551)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:386)
	... 10 more

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[jonilaw]

I encountered the similar problem, some videos may play, some may not.

[barnabaspal]

same problem for me, too.

[absurdlylongusername]

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These are network errors which should go away on their own. Unless you can prove this is specifically due to a bug in NewPipe that you can reproduce consistently, I will be closing this