[Bug] Video failed to play, 403 error

[9t8455qv]

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Describe the bug

When playing a video it will play for a short while then stop and repeatedly show an error message

Frequency

Relatively frequent (not every video but happens more often then it doesn't)

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open video
2. Video plays for a few seconds
3. Error, video playback stops

Device (e.g. Pixel 9 Pro)

Oppo find x5 pro

Error report

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgtD2rkuwBI
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: YouTube (Logged in)
• Version: 4.0.2
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:641)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:613)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:257)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:368)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:442)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:599)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	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)

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Additional context

Has only begun happening recently and to the best of my knowledge I haven't changed anything about my phone ,I always run a 24/7 VPN and system wide DNS but this hasn't changed in years and the errors have only been happening in the past week, the use of my VPN and DNS also doesn't affect my playback through any browser with the official YouTube website

[ToxicPuppet]

I have had exactly the same issues. And have tried to remidy the situation without success.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Thanks. Checking.

[InfinityLoop1308]

A possible patch is included in the latest build, please test and let me know if it works.

Edit: It doesn't.

[hujan86]

Has only begun happening recently and to the best of my knowledge I haven't changed anything about my phone ,I always run a 24/7 VPN and system wide DNS but this hasn't changed in years and the errors have only been happening in the past week, the use of my VPN and DNS also doesn't affect my playback through any browser with the official YouTube website

You're not alone experiencing this. Goggle must have fiddled with YouTube's backend I think, not long after v4.0.1 was up.

[9t8455qv]

Update
(Please disregard if this is irrelevant)
I downloaded both NewPipe and Tubular (NewPipe fork) and it appears to be happening in both of these too (though slightly less frequently in NewPipe) so I would assume it's a YouTube issue and not an app issue, just thought I'd mention it if it helps

[InfinityLoop1308]

Thanks for your info.

Also see yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11868