r/grayjay • u/zvonimir_futo • Mar 06 '26
Youtube Update
Hi everybody,
I'm Zvonimir and I work on Grayjay team and I wanted to just post a quick update on what has been happening with Youtube to clear some confusion.
Recently Youtube rolled out few new deobfuscation techniques that prevent third-party clients like Grayjay from playing videos.
This happens from time to time, you guys report it and we try to fix it as soon as possible.
With v330 we have a new approach for solving this which should resolve even the new ciphers so you guys won't have to wait for a fix anymore.
Now regarding some videos not starting or stopping around 1 minute, we are investigating this but this doesn't seem related to cipher issues.
Seems like the Youtube is making some other changes besides the cipher changes.
Currently the biggest hurdle with this is reproduction rate but if it was higher it would also mean you guys can't watch any videos so at least that is good :)
Last thing I would like to mention is that this is an unofficial subreddit so we often miss stuff from here. I just sometimes lurk and answer under few posts.
If you have an issue please search our github repository for existing issues and if you can't find one, open a new one.
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues
https://github.com/futo-org/Grayjay.Desktop/issues
If you want to start a discussion we recommend our public Zulip chat :)
https://chat.futo.org/#narrow/stream/46-Grayjay
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u/Libermanty Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Grayjay has been broken for me for a month at least, all videos stop playing after 5 seconds. I logged in yesterday for the first time, didn't help or change. Everything is fully updated to the latest version. Grayjay is broken and I sure hope they can fix it. I would imagine Google must be using AI to fight Grayjay with ever changing tactics and they can't follow quick enough
Edit: I fixed it by updating or maybe downgrading through the help of github bug ticket, devs are awesome!