Video not playing. Network error when in background play.

[BaaridunNasr]

Checklist

• I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version.
• I am not able to reproduce the bug with the latest version of vanilla NewPipe.
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Affected version

0.27.7

Steps to reproduce the bug

was playing a video in background mode. even playing of video stalls after this error, error occurs intermittently, internet was not spotty, same video was tested on youtube app and on web at the time of error and found working

Expected behavior

Plays as normal

Actual behavior

Network error, Guru Meditation

Screenshots/Recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKF2HIjxtNA
• Content Country: IN
• Content Language: en-IN
• App Language: en_IN
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2025-06-24T09:53:42.548+05:30
• Package: org.polymorphicshade.tubular
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.7
• OS: Linux Android 16 - 36

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:248)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:338)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:425)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16

Affected device model

Pixel 9

Additional information

No response