timeout when trying to play some videos

[hoke-81]

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Affected version

0.28.5

Steps to reproduce the bug

go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ-i5VsY6Yw
press play

Expected behavior

should play

Actual behavior

tries to load (black video window with red round arrow), then after a while shows this error

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ-i5VsY6Yw
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-04-26T22:40:15.178+02:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.5
• OS: Linux Nokia/Punisher_00EEA/PHR_sprout:13/TKQ1.220807.001/00WW_3_350:user/release-keys 13 - 33

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:317)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:303)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:161)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:3)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:277)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:130)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:11)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:40)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:35)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1154)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:652)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1564)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.Okio$3.newTimeoutException(Okio.java:214)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout.exit(AsyncTimeout.java:263)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout$2.read(AsyncTimeout.java:217)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.indexOf(RealBufferedSource.java:307)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.indexOf(RealBufferedSource.java:301)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.readUtf8LineStrict(RealBufferedSource.java:197)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponse(Http1xStream.java:188)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponseHeaders(Http1xStream.java:129)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readNetworkResponse(HttpEngine.java:750)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readResponse(HttpEngine.java:622)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:475)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:411)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:542)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getResponseCode(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:106)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:51)
	... 10 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:188)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:143)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:999)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.processDataFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:963)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readUntilDataAvailable(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:878)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.read(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:851)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.Okio$2.read(Okio.java:138)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout$2.read(AsyncTimeout.java:213)
	... 23 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

various (Android 11/13)

Affected device model

various (Nokia G50/Lenovo Tab M10)

Additional information

having this with this video on both my devices
only some videos doing this, other ones work, so my network is fine

[hoke-81]

This morning out of nothing it works. Maybe it was a one time phenomenon or it only happens when a video is very new (7 hours when it occured)