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Affected version

0.29.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to the video by Stealth17 Gaming called "Play the campaign with ANY unit!!".
2. Attempt to play video.
3. Video fails to play and error shows up in notifications.

Expected behavior

The video will play.

Actual behavior

Video does not play.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoZ71dHF6Go
• Content Country: KP
• Content Language: en-
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-07-25T17:46:22.284+08:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.29.0
• OS: Linux Android 17 - 37

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:317)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:138)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:296)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:397)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:139)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: connection closed
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:303)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:162)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:3)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:275)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:132)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:11)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:40)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:35)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1100)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1572)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: connection closed
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.SSLUtils.toSSLHandshakeException(SSLUtils.java:369)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.doHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:246)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.startHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:225)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:196)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:153)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:116)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:186)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:128)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:97)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:289)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:232)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:465)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:131)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.connect(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:90)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.makeConnection(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:338)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:45)
	... 10 more
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: connection closed
	... 26 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 17

Affected device model

Google Pixel 8a

Additional information

No response

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