1.8.3 stopped the one-minute cutoff, but it did it by retrying until YouTube handed out a session that was not being throttled — a workaround with a shelf life. This release changes how the app gets video instead. Opaline now asks for it the way a smart TV does, and when you are signed in it plays as your account rather than anonymously. Everything that was still broken since 14 August works again.
Fixes
- Dubbed audio works again, and a video that has a dub in your language now starts in it instead of playing the original for a few seconds and switching over.
- Videos made for kids play again.
- Watch history and Continue watching update again. What you watch is now recorded by the session that actually plays it, which is what YouTube expects.
- Playback no longer depends on drawing a healthy anonymous session, so the one-minute cutoff cannot come back this way.
- Seeking far into a long video no longer breaks playback. Resuming a long video from history lands where you left it and starts straight away.
- Switching quality or audio track no longer throws the video a second or two backwards.
- Opening a video no longer waits for the comments and recommendations to finish loading. On older devices that was costing seconds before the picture appeared.
Known issues
- Livestreams on kids channels do not play yet.
Playback was rebuilt underneath for this release. If something misbehaves for you, a bug report with a log attached (Settings → Debug → Share Debug Log) is the fastest way to get it fixed.