Has NewPipe v0.27.0 stopped working for anyone else? It won’t play anymore. It loads the video page and comments, but throws an error when attempting to play or download the video. I’ve submitted an error report, but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

    • Into The Sky@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Same, i tried Grayjay today and i was surprised about how well and reliably it worked. Does someone know why?

      • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
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        5 months ago

        My guess (and it’s only a guess, I haven’t looked at the source code) is that the scraping is being done on a server end that they can update without having to push an app update.

        edit: my guess was wrong, I found where the source code is and they do the parsing locally - however it’s a plugin that I assume gets loaded in on app start so they can still update it without having to publish a new apk. this is the fix

        interestingly although Grayjay itself is proprietary this plugin is Affero GPL licensed.