[YouTube] Live Stream fails after 30 seconds

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Affected version

0.28.8 intalled both in my Android TV and my phone.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Just click a live stream, either from feed or channel.
2. The stream will play for around 30 seconds.
3. Then the image freezes. The wheel keeps spinning for a while...
4. Then a "An error ocurred, check notification" message appears.
5. The stream cannot be played again until you clear cache from settings, but the the process repeats from step 1....

Expected behavior

I would expect for the streams to not fail playing...

Actual behavior

The live stream stops after 30 seconds of playing. Not every streams fail, but once one does, you can't get it load again until you clear metadata cache. Sometimes It works and you finally can watch the live stream, but most of time, the bug repeats.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxUntJxQ6hM
• Content Country: ES
• Content Language: es-ES
• App Language: es_ES
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-07-21T19:01:10.789+02:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.8
• OS: Linux Redmi/sea_eea/sea:15/AP3A.240905.015.A2/OS2.0.209.0.VHZEUXM:user/release-keys 15 - 35

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:317)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:249)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:337)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:260)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:161)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:11)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:71)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(r8-map-id-1be563feaba4a3cfc509c2ed643962b6ef6b98519cc2d4ab49b069e9c8994f63:35)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1100)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1572)

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 15

Affected device model

Xiaomi Redmi Note 12s and TCL Google TV

Additional information

No response