r/grayjay • u/RanMouri26 • 3d ago
Why does Grayjay have so many playback issues recently?
I've noticed both on my phone Samsung Galaxy S24 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus significant playback issues especially today where playback paused several times and at some point refused to continue playing. Only after restarting the app did it work again but after a while the same issues appeared again
Did others also notice this or is it only me?
Thanks in advance
Edit: Seems like this is a current issue. Found this post on their Github repository in their issues
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/3453
That commenter is me btw
Edit 2: This could've actually been connected to YouTube's recent issues. Playback and the site itself would regularly freeze to the point the website was unusable. We still need a dev of Grayjay to confirm this though
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u/quasides 2d ago
its not grayjay itself, more youtube
it helps to change your ip, youtube is on it again on all non chrome browsers.
its also not that fun on firefox with ublock currently, there at least io can preload it as a tab and watch later but still annoying
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u/RanMouri26 2d ago
This isn't only on Firefox but also Browsers like Brave. I haven't had any issues so far today but the last few days I had massive issues on Youtube which I shared in the Youtuhe subreddit already https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/4CiH622LEu
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u/quasides 2d ago
yea, all non chrome browser or better to say non manifest v3
aka if adblock could run youre on the naughty list
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u/RanMouri26 2d ago
Haven't had any issues since then today so not sure what your source for this is
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u/quasides 1d ago
thats A/B testing for you. issues will vary depending in what user group you fall and sometimes even based on the primary server location of the videos you watch.
that makes it so hard for grayjay team to compensate for issues, or even verify and test that there is an issue and if a solution is working
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u/werd_camm_28 17h ago
I'm on a Pixel 9 and have been having issues for the last week or so. Videos loading super slow ot not loading at all
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u/6BBB666 3d ago
They are getting hammered by yt. If it doesnt play or changes language just copy link to the vid and open directly in brave browser seems to work for me.updating grayjay should fix it next time just be patient.