[Bug]: video freezes and reloads, and when it does, only lower resolution is available

[Rallick-Jex]

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Describe the bug

1. play a video (usually this happens with longer videos, just happened with this one: https://youtu.be/gsooOhdN_Ck
2. sometime during the video, seems random as to when, playback stops and the video reloads
3. after reload, only lower resolution is available, unless you refresh (Ctrl + R)

Expected Behavior

no freezing or reloading, and no sudden lowering of playback resolution

Issue Labels

inconsistent behavior

FreeTube Version

v0.23.8 Beta

Operating System Version

Windows 10 LTSC 21H2

Installation Method

.exe

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

Guess: may be related to mid-roll ads (?)

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

I cannot reproduce this with the provided URL and other streams from that channel. Please provide more URL this happened on.

In addition to that do the following:

1. ctrl + shift + i on the subscription page to open the dev tools. Make sure the console tab in the dev tools is open
2. Go to the about page to show what version you are on
3. Try to watch the video
4. Show the red errors you received in the console when the bug occured

[Rallick-Jex]

This is not VPN related, I don't think. It just happened again with another video from the same channel, I had the console open and took a screenshot.

I am on the latest version v0.23.8 Beta

[ArthurKun21]

happened to me one time before too

video freeze near halfway to video and reloads with 360p

haven't reproduced it so far, was random too so I didn't managed to log it

[tockudex]

I can confirm it happens randomly to me as well.
Sometimes multiple times on the same video and day, sometimes not at all.

I look into debugging another time

[qupear]

For me on this channel each video experience this issue. And also on this. Though occurrence could be Google caching server dependent.

[tockudex]

I noticed that I frequently encounter this issue for this channel, especially after a while (say 15 min of playback) or if I pause/unpause the video and skip forward/backward a lot.

[qupear]

I noticed that I frequently encounter this issue for this channel, especially after a while (say 15 min of playback) or if I pause/unpause the video and skip forward/backward a lot.

Confirm. Pause/unpause is probably a simpler way to reproduce this. Pause is broken for that type of videos. Because after trying to unpause video doesn't play, page became broken in some way. I need to reload page to play video again and timestamp is dropped to 0:00.

To me this looks like Youtube limits percentage of video that could be viewed "for free" without interruptions. Because even in a browser I have similar kind of issue. After disabling Sponsorblock in Freetube it feels like issue is slightly soften.

As workaround - set player settings to legacy 360p. That way it plays without interruptions. But pause\unpause is broken even with legacy 360p.

[exefile2]

Also happened with me during a long lecture.
The video reloads, does not play for a while, and then starts from the beginning.