Loading failed "Could not play this stream"

[Arkina1234]

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Affected version

0.28.3

Steps to reproduce the bug

loading failed

Expected behavior

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7eawHlcoo
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-02-18T08:17:22.016-04:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.3
• OS: Linux Android 11 - 30

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:684)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:656)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:268)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "rr3---sn-nx57ynsd.googlevideo.com": No address associated with hostname
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:390)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:269)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:60)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:802)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:615)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:90)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:132)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:420)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "rr3---sn-nx57ynsd.googlevideo.com": No address associated with hostname
	at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupHostByName(Inet6AddressImpl.java:124)
	at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Inet6AddressImpl.java:103)
	at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1152)
	at com.android.okhttp.Dns$1.lookup(Dns.java:41)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.RouteSelector.resetNextInetSocketAddress(RouteSelector.java:178)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.RouteSelector.nextProxy(RouteSelector.java:144)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.RouteSelector.next(RouteSelector.java:86)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:176)
	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:302)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:245)
	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(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:695)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.makeConnection(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:549)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:384)
	... 10 more

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[absurdlylongusername]

This is network related and not due to NewPipe, and stack trace says it's a DNS issue.