v4.2.0-beta

[InfinityLoop1308]

New Features

• Support manual mode for Sponsorblock
• Support sponsorblock submission
• Add a switch to control whether or not show dislike count
• Show total duration in Playlist
• Fully support AV1 format, including 2k60, 4k60 and 8k60 videos (YouTube)
• Support SponsorBlock (BiliBili)

Bug Fixes

• Disabling "Skip Sponsors" disables also colored SeekBar
• Failed to update feed for certain channels
• Comments scroll position lost after minimize and resume
• Login status not being updated immediately (BiliBili, NicoNico)
• H265 codec is not correctly handled (BiliBili)
• Cannot get channel playlists (BiliBili)
• Can not load some movies (BiliBili)
• Improve error message for geo-restricted and paid contents (NicoNico)
• Some videos have no channel info (NicoNico)
• Random 403 failure (SoundCloud)
• some minor bug fixes

Performance

• Improve the smoothness of the video interface, especially when entering and exiting full-screen mode.
• Load sponsorblock info async to improve performance

Behavior changes

• Add dolby atoms to advanced formats and disable hi-res to avoid no sound issue (BiliBili)
• Move advanced formats setting to Player Settings to make it more clear

Others

• Update icon and splash screen

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Which APK should you download?

• arm64-v8a should work on most devices.
• armeabi-v7a if your device is a 10+ year old phone.
• x86_64 for 64-bit Android simulators (on a PC).
• x86 for 32-bit simulators.

If these rules not working, download the universal APK. It should work on any device.
All APKs provide the same contents and functions, but the universal one may be slower than the split ones.

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This discussion was created from the release v4.2.0-beta.

[juninho0818]

The application in Brazilian Portuguese has a translation error when checking for updates. When I click on check for updates there is a spelling error, an extra letter (letter z).

[juninho0818]

You could remove code from options that are no longer supported by the app.

[juninho0818]

To optimize the app, you could only launch the universal version of the app. as it is recognized in all architectures.

[InfinityLoop1308]

No, since it will increase the package size.

[EspWifi8266]

Great beta I really liked the improvements especially for sponsor block! But I noticed that even with this beta (regardless of the network) only this YouTube video fails and gives a network error: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBE2ItVXfRM&t=0

Log:

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBE2ItVXfRM
• Content Country: IT
• Content Language: it-IT
• App Language: it_IT
• Service: YouTube (Logged in)
• Version: 4.2.0-beta
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

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:107)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:238)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:357)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.io.IOException: unexpected end of stream on com.android.okhttp.Address@9cfe17f5
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:480)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.read(CacheDataSource.java:641)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.read(StatsDataSource.java:92)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.readFromUpstream(DefaultExtractorInput.java:291)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.advancePeekPosition(DefaultExtractorInput.java:164)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.advancePeekPosition(DefaultExtractorInput.java:176)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.mp4.Sniffer.sniffInternal(Sniffer.java:202)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.mp4.Sniffer.sniffFragmented(Sniffer.java:79)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.mp4.FragmentedMp4Extractor.sniff(FragmentedMp4Extractor.java:278)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.BundledExtractorsAdapter.init(BundledExtractorsAdapter.java:76)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1020)
	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)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: unexpected end of stream on com.android.okhttp.Address@9cfe17f5
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponse(Http1xStream.java:203)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponseHeaders(Http1xStream.java:129)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readNetworkResponse(HttpEngine.java:750)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readResponse(HttpEngine.java:622)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:475)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:411)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:542)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getResponseCode(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:106)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:476)
	... 17 more
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: \n not found: size=0 content=...
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.readUtf8LineStrict(RealBufferedSource.java:202)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponse(Http1xStream.java:188)
	... 26 more

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[InfinityLoop1308]

Thanks for your feedback! For the error, it is a network error. You can force close the app and retry again.

[EspWifi8266]

I tried but it always fails, whether I change network or force stop the app or clear cache

[InfinityLoop1308]

It works fine here🤔 Maybe you can try to log out? or use another acccount
And, does the error always exactly same?

[EspWifi8266]

Only this video was giving me the same problem now but I logged out and now it works

[sam-gq]

I also have to expect to improve the video player when selecting the resolution for the next future release (hopefully).

Like changing the name of the video formats with video codecs. Especially when choosing the video resolution, the MPEG-4 mixes in between AV1 and AVC codecs, which is confusing if AV1 actually runs. This helps make less confusing on selecting the right video format I played on yt.

Example comparing before and after changing the names (for yt).

Before:
MPEG-4 1080p60 (where is AV1?)
WebM 1080p60

Future release after:
AV1 1080p60
VP9 1080p60
AVC 1080p60

**btw I like this progress, AV1 video fetches very well especially popular 4K HDR yt video, but still hit or miss fetching some AV1 formats on yt at low res videos under 1080p (which I double checked if the video I searched from has AV1 by using YTDLnis app, to scan all video and audio formats, just like yt-dlp).