Video not playing in DASH format

[VitoItalianGamer]

Steps to reproduce

1.Watch a video by searching or whatever
2.the video remains black and no sound

Expected behavior

The video plays like normal

Actual behavior

The video remains black and plays only in HLS

LibreTube version

0.22.2

Android version

Android 12

Other details

Was it of next DNS or libretube itself

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[ngn13]

To fix 1002 errors Piped project disabled ump with this commit: TeamPiped/Piped-Backend@d5572d7

Which breaks DASH for some reason

[Not-A-Coder2023]

This happened to me just recently

[consoleaf]

This happened to me just recently

Try disabling DASH in settings. Worked for me, probably will for you as well

[QuestioningEspecialy]

This happened to me just recently

Try disabling DASH in settings. Worked for me, probably will for you as well

This did it for me.
Settings -> Audio and video -> Quality -> Use HLS

edit:
GrapheneOS
Android 14
Pixel 6a

edit2: it pauses every few minutes now, though

[anoo2niem]

For those using libretube with a selfhosted piped server with docker, where switching to HLS doesn't seem to work and where the backend got updated recently by watchtower;

1337kavin/piped@sha256:afa51dbe3089686e42e894a405dabf7cc6f649b739c4f801c766153bf7a96a3c is the image with digestID just before the update that disabled UMP and breaks DASH as mentioned by @ngn13.

Currently using this image, back up and running, till the issue git fixed.

[0x24D]

Debug log shows the issue comes from ExoPlayer:

playerFailed [eventTime=2.76, mediaPos=0.00, window=0, period=0, errorCode=ERROR_CODE_IO_READ_POSITION_OUT_OF_RANGE
                   androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
                       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:713)
                       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:685)
                       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
                       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
                       at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
                   Caused by: androidx.media3.datasource.cronet.CronetDataSource$OpenException
                       at androidx.media3.datasource.cronet.CronetDataSource.skipFully(CronetDataSource.java:928)
                       at androidx.media3.datasource.cronet.CronetDataSource.open(CronetDataSource.java:676)
                       at androidx.media3.datasource.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:275)
                       at androidx.media3.datasource.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:86)
                       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:129)
                       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:421)
                       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)
                       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)
                       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
                 ]

The DASH manifest created using PlayerHelper::createDashSource works fine using other video player, including Piped (shaka-player).

[VitoItalianGamer]

I'm using hls and the auto generated captions don't appear.

[CarlosRuiz-globalqss]

I'm using hls and the auto generated captions don't appear.

same here - DASH is not working, and HLS is slow and without automatic subtitles

[Bnyro]

I am getting

Caused by: androidx.media3.common.ParserException: Invalid integer size: 8101{contentIsMalformed=true, dataType=1}
                                                                                                          at androidx.media3.extractor.mkv.DefaultEbmlReader.read(DefaultEbmlReader.java:121)
                                                                                                          at androidx.media3.extractor.mkv.MatroskaExtractor.read(MatroskaExtractor.java:514)
                                                                                                          at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.chunk.BundledChunkExtractor.read(BundledChunkExtractor.java:149)
                                                                                                          at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:129)
                                                                                                          at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:414)
                                                                                                          at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
                                                                                                          at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
                                                                                                          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

I've logged and compared requests from Piped and LibreTube at the proxy's side, and they're pretty much identical. So I suspect that when disabling ump, YouTube's video format is different and thus no longer compatible with the ExoPlayer, while Shaka does handle things differently at the Piped frontend on the web.

I've tested downgrading the ExoPlayer version - without any notable changes.

[ARR552]

This happened to me just recently

Try disabling DASH in settings. Worked for me, probably will for you as well

This worked for me as well but only for the video. It is still failing in audio mode...

[Ehab-d]

This worked for me as well but only for the video. It is still failing in audio mode...

The audio player did not respect the Use HLS setting and always used DASH. This issue was resolved in #5862. You can expect it to be resolved in the next release or try the nightly builds.

[codenyte]

NewPipe is more stable. Innertube or NewPipe Extractor as additional support would be great

I'll install New Pipe until LibreTube fixes the DASH problem

You can simply disable the proxying in the settings. Go to settings -> Instance and select 'Disable Piped proxy'. That setting will make LibreTube basically act just like NewPipe.

[Not-A-Coder2023]

unrelated but apparently adding a channel to a group crashes libretube debug

[codenyte]

unrelated but apparently adding a channel to a group crashes libretube debug

@Not-A-Coder2023 Please open a new issue for that

[alejandro-alzate]

Which breaks DASH for some reason

Pinnacle of subtle software quirks.

[GlytchMeister]

I know a previous comment said not to comment just to say one is experiencing this problem as well, but I feel like something has happened recently; Up until a few minutes ago, I have been able to play DASH on at least one instance.

But now, every instance is either unable to play DASH or is returning "sign in to confirm you're not a not" errors.

HLS, as mentioned in the setting to use it over DASH, is QUITE slow... and there is a limit to how far the video will buffer. Once it hits that limit, it won't buffer any more, even if I begin playing the video. I have to change the resolution to clear the played buffer once I reach the end of the buffer so the video can buffer the next 30 seconds or so of the video.

This is an awful lot of hoops to jump through to watch a video, even at just 144p and "worst" audio quality

[ngn13]

@GlytchMeister

I know a previous comment said not to comment just to say one is experiencing this problem as well, but I feel like something has happened recently; Up until a few minutes ago, I have been able to play DASH on at least one instance.

The instance you were using was probably running an older version of Piped, with this commit Piped disabled ump, which breaks DASH

But now, every instance is either unable to play DASH or is returning "sign in to confirm you're not a not" errors.

The "sign in" error you are getting is not related to HLS or DASH, please see this issue.