IOS player response is not valid error when loading some videos

[jamesdrake101]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related.

Describe the bug

Just making sure this problem is tracked here and the upstream fix is applied. Piped is completely broken for me at the moment, due to this issue.

Thanks.

To Reproduce

Play any video

Expected behavior

The video plays

Logs/Errors

IOS player response is not valid

Browser, and OS with Version.

Any client

Additional context

Upstream issue: TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#11934

[Atemu]

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/releases/tag/v0.24.4 has been released with the fix; just needs to be applied.

[jamesdrake101]

@FireMasterK @Bnyro If you can use any assistance (for menial work, manual testing etc) to fast track applying this fix, please ask. At the moment I need to reload 90% of the videos I watch at least 5-6 times before they start.

[Atemu]

I pushed this to my fork I just made for testing and it works in my deployment.

Atemu/Piped-Backend@bb7eada

I can't PR this obviously because it points to my NPE fork where I simply merged the upstream tag:

Atemu/Piped-Backend@bb7eada

[Atemu]

(The whole process around updating this dependency sucks tbh. Jitpack is a crutch and, while it does its stated job, that just doesn't really work well because you must always push to GH. I don't know a better solution though unfortunately short of vendoring the entire tree via e.g. git subtree.)