Memory allocation fails when playing a 2 hour or longer video on YouTube

[santraj611]

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Affected version

4.7.2

Steps to reproduce the bug

Steps to reproduce this bug

Play any long video longer then 2 hour on youtube

Expected behavior

It should just play the damn video

Actual behavior

First it heavily lags. Then it crashes.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

I often get this type of errors in almost most of the previous version.

"user_action":"ui error",
"request":"ACRA report",
"content_language":"en-US",
"content_country":"US",
"app_language":"en_US",
"service":"none",
"package":"InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced",
"version":"4.7.2",
"os":"Linux Android 6.0 - 23",
"time":"2025-08-30 08:10",
"exceptions":

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 28 byte allocation with 2968 free bytes and 2968B until OOM
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.addConditionWaiter(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1829)
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.awaitNanos(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:2043)
java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$DelayedWorkQueue.take(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:1090)
java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$DelayedWorkQueue.take(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:1071)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1038)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1098)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 6

Affected device model

Lenovo K10a40

Additional information

What did I find

I did find an old issue on this matter marked closed. But I can assure you it is still here.

What I think you should know

• I am using v7 version of the app
• This bug is not reproducible in v8

[santraj611]

Sorry, I was posting this on PipePipe repo but mistakenly posted here, So I am closing this issue, And Sorry once again