Audio/Video desync

[LukasThyWalls]

Version

• NewPipe 0.19.3 (Autoupdate version)
• Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite, Android 10, MIUI 11.0.2

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open any video... i tested with different videos from different channels, all of them with this issue.

Expected behavior

The video plays normally, with the audio in sync (Tested today with 0.19.2).

Actual behaviour

The video plays normally, but looking carefully, the video and audio began to go out of sync slowly (with video first). In 10-15 minutes the sync is between half second and a second, but in 3-5 minutes it is very noticiable.
If you choose any other resolution, move the scroll time, rewind or forward, the video and audio come again in sync, and it began slowly to lost sync again.
This happens with 0.19.3, i uninstall and installed 0.19.2, and this is not happening with that version.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

(I will need to post at least a 10 minutes video play, but i can post it if needed)

Logs

(It's not a crash, If i can log something, tell me)

[Stypox]

Strange... we didn't change anything related to the player from version 0.19.2. Could you test the apk provided in #3513?

[wb9688]

@Stypox: Well, the following are all the commits that changed something in the player between those 2 releases (made with git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit v0.19.2..v0.19.3 app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/ | grep -v Merge):

00262b4 Better detection of TV devices
0ec22c7 Fix pause button is not focused on player control activation
54ceb85 Don't break navigation if player Views other than controls are focused
d1d942f Fix Checkstyle violations in MediaSourceManager
53b3bda Comply with Checkstyle rules
a50e430 Fix checkstyle issues and improve code formatting
46918ee formatting changes
fe18896 made formatting changes
9487b53 changed popup resizing
3855e48 Save and restore playback parameters into/from preferences
63bcc04 Move things back to its original place
fda5405 Improve code style to be more consistent
caa1de8 Rename FireTvUtils to AndroidTvUtils and isFireTv() to isTV()
a1e02f7 Default to landscape orientation for Android TV
6e76610 Eliminate bunch of ExoPlayer warnings
d23227d Implement global focus highlight
d29e0aa Improve usability of MainVideoActivity with directional navigation

(It's not a crash, If i can log something, tell me)

@LukasThyWalls: Download the latest RC from #3479, connect your phone to your PC, and use adb logcat. If your phone is rooted, you could also use an app like aLogcat or CatLog to get those logs.

[LukasThyWalls]

I just tested NewPipe_v0.19.3_RC4 and with that version the issue is not happening...

[Stypox]

Well, RC4 is the same as 0.19.3 afaik

[LukasThyWalls]

Ok, now make more sense. It's some kind of config issue.
The reason because NewPipe_v0.19.3_RC4 wasn't doing it is because i was using the default configuration, when i imported the exported settings it began to do it.

So, i'm going to import the DB but not the settings into regular v0.19.3, and put all the settings again like i want. Then if i see something i will report it.

Also, i attached the newpipe.settings from the imported data and the logcat during 10 minutes of use of NewPipe_v0.19.3_RC4 with the issue (I'm not importing the whole result logcat because there is a 10 MB text file with logs since 10 hours ago, if it's needed i can attach it)

NewPipeDebug_Logcat.txt
newpipe_settings.zip

[Stypox]

Thank you for the logs!
Could you test the apk provided in #3513? (no need for any log in this case, just check if it fixes your problem by chanche)

[LukasThyWalls]

Thank you for the logs!
Could you test the apk provided in #3513? (no need for any log in this case, just check if it fixes your problem by chanche)

Ok, the point there is the imported configuration.

When i use the default configuration, there isn't any issue, when i imported my database WITHOUT the configuration, there isn't any issue. These with v0.19.3, v0.19.3 RC4 #3479, and the provided #3513

But if i imported WITH the configuration, the issue appears. As when i updated from v0.19.2 (which it didn't had the issue) to v0.19.3, some stored config seems to cause this.

Now i'm using v0.19.3, importing my old database but without importing the config. I reconfigured it by hand from the default one to make it more or less like the old config and it seems i don't have this issue anymore.

So, you can close this issue if i'm the only one with the problem, with maybe the issue came from a random error stored in the settings and related with my phone model/version, a concrete settings what i didn't set again by chance (i think not), anyway the exported settings causing the issues to me are attached above. I suppose there is not need to waste more time in this, maybe only for knowledge if there are related issues in the future, as you can fixed it reseting the config. But if there is something more i can do, tell me.

Thanks.

[juantxorena]

I just want to add that I had the same problem, and the configuration "solution" proposed by @LukasThyWalls worked.

I'm going to test in a long video to see if it's really fixed.

[ghost]

I'm also experiencing this issue. I'll try LukasThyWalls fix later and see if it works.

My device is a pixel 3xl Android 10 with the April 2020 security update installed (latest one as of today)

[mgolden356]

I also had this issue, and it was fixed this way. I have a Moto g⁷ power on Android 9 (with the latest security update), with the F droid update at 0.19.3.

The issue came back 6 days later.

[gkeegan]

If those fixes don't work for you guys you can just tap back to exit the video, then resume it. It should sync up again temporarily.

[Godecki]

Same issue for me on newest build

[macearl]

I'm experiencing the same problem on a newly-ish installed NewPipe 0.19.13
I've been using it for a couple of days and did not import any previous settings.

I attached a logcat i grabbed during playback until the delay was clearly noticeable.

newpipe_adb.zip

After this i also tried the workaround of cleaning the storage and only importing the database without settings with the apk in #3513 and the F-Droid Version, for now both have no A/V Desync issue, i'll have to see if it returns after a couple of days like for mgolden356

[vadiof]

I have the same issue. 0.19.13 (from F-droid) was the first version I've faced with this issue on. Found this discussion, I've reinstall the app and subscribed to all channels again without importing any data. Desync disappeared. But sometime later, just the day before F-droid provided update to 0.19.14, the issue showed up again. After update to 0.19.14 and then to 0.19.15 it is still exist.

P.S. Could someone help me the info about how import database without settings since I can see only one file that is exported by NewPipe?

[Stypox]

@vadiof you import normally, and when the dialog asking for "Also import settings" appears, you answer "No"

[vadiof]

@Stypox thank you! Didn't notice this dialog before

[loque036]

I am experiencing this bug as well ever since i updated to 0.19.3 and i found a fix for it, no need to wipe out the settings or anything like i've seen suggested above, just changing the playback speed of the video to 1.01x seems to get rid of the desync and the video still looks as if its played at normal speed.

For reference, my device is a OnePlus 6 running syberia os (android 10)

[B0pol]

I also experience audio desync in version 0.19.5

[B0pol]

And I can confirm speed 1.01 works around it. Lowering quality is another workaround I've found

[LukasThyWalls]

Lowering quality is another workaround I've found

Yes, temporaly because it began to loose sync with time again since you changed the quality (at least as when

I only want to point out that this happened to me when i upgraded NewPipe from 0.92 to 0.93, but with 0.93 i configured again from default settings (i kept the subcriptions), and with 0.94 and 0.95 upgrades i haven't had this issue anymore. The "troubled" exported settings are uploaded above.

[coolsan06]

I've also noted this issues but some songs are also are gliched if you listed to a song some part glitch out and repeat themselves or just skip to parts of the video also commenting on the last post is their going to be a fix as the new update rolls around in 0.19.4 or is it a problem happening to only a select few because I started a big thread yesterday and could not find anyone else without the same problem only my LG v30 and samsung Galaxy note 9 seen these issues only until. My thread was closed and I was redirected to this thread.

[coolsan06]

Sorry some parts are wrong on the other post let me correct them I could not find anyone else with the same problem sorry for the confusion.

[loque036]

For some reason the 1.01 speed trick to fix the desync stopped working after about a week and as much as i wipe out the settings and lower the quality the desync continues, this is getting pretty annoying. Haven't tried 0.19.3 or .4 but i'm expecting the same results. Time to roll back to 0.19.2 again i guess.

[coolsan06]

No yeah I messed up the versions i thought it was 19.3 but in reality it was 19.5. is it a problem everybody has or is it just for people without android 10. Due to the update i think this is happening.

[mgolden356]

I've been noticing this since 19.2, .3, .4, .5. I feel like it has something to do with toggling the speed, but not exactly sure when the desync gets triggered from what input. I know reuploading database without settings gives at least a good one day+ fix. Will always be testing more.

[coolsan06]

I barely noticed it with this patch but some things are also glitched like music or some videos

[theScrabi]

Guys I'm havigg it with 0.19.5 and it rendes NewPipe for me almost unusable. I cant watch talk shows or anything else as I have a desync of id guess half a second if I don't pause the video regularly. I don't want to hustle but to me this looks like an ASAP because so far all of my devices are inflicted by this issue. So I'd guess many people have this issue.

[Stypox]

theScrabi do you have some time to do a git bisect between 0.19.2 and 0.19.3 and find out which commit caused the issue?

[Stypox]

3855e48 this is the commit that caused the issue, found it using git bisect
Now proceeding to investigate and fix the bug.

[Stypox]

@LukasThyWalls @juantxorena @ajtpak @mgolden356 @Godecki @macearl @vadiof @loque036 @B0pol @coolsan06 @theScrabi could you test the apk provided in #3837 and confirm it fixes the issue?

[macearl]

for me the issue went away after i did a clean flash of an OS update, since then i have not been able to reproduce this issue, sorry i can't be of more help.

[theScrabi]

I see. Could it be that maybe only lineage users are inflicted?

[coolsan06]

Skypox I will test if the apk you supplied fixes the issue thank you its a anoying bug andthank you for trying to fix it.

[coolsan06]

Also I tried the ×1.01 trick but I found a better version. That has lasted almost 3 weeks now ×1.02 should fix the problem

[Stypox]

@theScrabi no, I was able to reproduce the issue on my phone using the settings provided in a comment above. I have a Huawei P9 lite with the original Android